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2023 Summer Reading List
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As recommended by Atlanta Public Schools Library Media Services
Pre K & Kindergarten
1st Grade
Bathe the Cat by Alice B. McGinty
The Yawns Are Coming! By Christopher Eliopoulos
Little Red and the Cat Who Loved Cake by Barbara Lehman
Invasion of the Unicorns by David Biedrzycki
Little Witch Hazel by Phoebe Wahl
Nigel and the Moon by A. Eady
Over the Shop by JonArno Lawson
Something’s Wrong by Jory John
Grandpa Grumps by Katrina Moore and Xindi Yan
There’s a Ghost in this House by Oliver Jeffers
Biscuit Series by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
David Series by David Shannon
Pete the Cat Series by James Dean
If You Give…Series by Laura Numeroff
The Pigeon Series by Mo Willems
Itty-Bitty Kitty Corn by Shannon Hale
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
How to Be a Pirate by Isaac Fitzgerald
Frederico and the Wolf by Rebecca J. Gomez
We Will Rock Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins
Across the Bay by Carlos Aponte
We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
The Barnabus Project by Terry Fan
Sofia Martinez: el cumpleanos de la abuela by Jacqueline Jules
The Magnificent Makers: How To Test a Friendship by Theanne Griffith
Yellow Dog Blues by Alice Faie Duncan and Chris Raschka
Twins by Varian Johnson
Gibberish by Young Vo
Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution by Sherri Winston
Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon by Kat Zhang
Root Magic by Eden Royce
Click, Clack…Series by Doreen Cronin
Measuring Up by Lily LaMotte
The Oldest Student by Rita Lorraine Hubbard and Oge Mora
Dog Man…Series by Dav Pilky
4th & 5th Grades
Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera by Candace Fleming
Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd
The Legend of Gravity: A tall basketball tale by Charly Palmer
Room to Dream by Kelly Yang
Thirst by Nancy Paulsen
The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez by Adrianna Cuevas
The Midnight Children by Dan Gemeinhart
Ride On by Faith Erin Hicks
The List of Unspeakable Fears by J Kasper Kramer
Honestly Elliott by Gillian McDunn
Mwikalw and the Forbidden Mask by Shiko Nguru
Tumble by Celia C. Perez
Air: A Novel by Monica Roe
Omar Rising by Aisha Saeed
The Summer of June by Jamie Sumner
Sincerely Sicily by Tamika Burgess
6th - 8th Grade
9th - 12th Grade
Class Act by Jerry Craft
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Ground Zero by Alan Gratz
The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson
Shot Clock by Caron Butler & Justin A. Reynolds
All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown
Becoming Brianna by Terri Libenson
The Chandler Legacies by Abdi Nazemian
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney
Falling Short by Ernesto Cisneros
The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Screfer
Miss Quinces by Kat Fajardo
The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta
Golden Girl by Reem Faruqi
Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed
Super Troop by Bruce Hale
How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gililand
How to Find What You’re Not Looking For by Veera Hiranandani
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
Attack of the Black Rectangles by Amy Sarig King
Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman
Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff
Kneel by Candace Buford
Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun by Tola Okogwu
Love Times by Lane Clark
Ellen Outside the Lines by A.J. Sass
My Mechanical Romance by Alexene Farol Follmuth
Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee
Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters
Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas
See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega
The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel by Jason Reynolds
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
It’s the End of the World and I’m In My Bathing Suit by Justin A. Reynolds
Tonight We Rule the World by Zack Smedley