Book recommendations & reviews

New Mythical, Magical, and Fantasy Chapter Books (2019)

Ready to add to your bookshelves? These books are the newest chapter books with mythology, magic, and fantasy elements. Add to that adventure, growing up, and making ethical decisions, and you’ll see there are many, many good books from which to choose. Maybe you’ll want to read them all! New Myths, Magic, and […]

Impressive New Middle Grade Books You Don’t Want to Miss

Many of these middle-grade books are all about the hard work of growing up– whether they’re about coding or adoption or ADHD or something else — they’re still tackling coming-of-age, too. Coming-of-age means these are about kids growing into young adulthood learning hard-earned life lessons about who they are and how to make sense […]

8 Reasons to Let Your Kids Read Graphic Novels

Guess what?! Comics and graphic novels count as credible reading materials and aren’t just for reluctant readers. The truth is children need both variety and choice to become good readers. Meaning, they need nonfiction, different genres of fiction, and different formats of books. Graphic novels give readers a variety in format. And of course, reluctant readers often […]

Summer Reading Lists For Kids Ages 5 – 18

Happy summer vacation! Get your kids ages 5 to 18, reading with book recommendations from these up-to-date summer reading lists for kids. They’re at every grade level from elementary to middle school to high school!! Reading, lots and lots of reading, is the only way to keep kids growing as readers. But kids need lots of good books. […]

5th Grade Summer Reading List (Ages 10 – 11)

Need a 5th-grade summer reading list? These books for your kids ages 10 or 11 are organized by genres so that kids can explore something in every category. Let kids choose from the list! Why? Because book choice is key to ownership and motivation. SHOP this list on Amazon. All book reviews and recommendations for […]

3rd Grade Summer Reading List (Ages 8 – 9)

What kind of books does your 3rd grader enjoy reading? Here are my recommendations for ages 8 and 9 (third grade) summer reading. Find funny books, fantasy books, friendship stories, adventure stories, and books about animals. These books will get your kids engaged and reading all summer long! SHOP this list. Don’t forget that a summer reading program can be […]

1st Grade Summer Reading List of Books

Keep your soon to be 1st (first) graders, ages 6 and 7, practicing their growing reading skills with the best, most highly recommended books! These are favorite books for beginning readers from the easiest books with a few words per page to beginning chapter books with a sentence per page. (For my kids, this was first grade but for […]