SummerReads

2025 SummerReads

SummerReads is the library's suite of recommended reading lists. These lists, curated using Padlet, are compiled by Pike Librarians Francesca Mellin and Davita Block. Each SummerReads list is updated annually with a commitment to highlighting diverse and inclusive perspectives and a focus on enjoyable, age-relevant titles. 

Select your incoming grade for fall 2025 to view your Padlet list. 

PreK/K      1/2    3/4   5/6      7/8/9   Amazing Audio (all ages)  

More Reading Ideas!

Nominated titles for this year's Massachusetts Children's Book Award are geared toward students in grades 3 - 6.

Discover this year's nominees for the Massachusetts Teen Choice Book Award, geared for readers in grades 7 - 12.

Recommendations by the Horn Book children’s literature journal.

Notable Books for a Global Society from the International Reading Association. 

Winners of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, recognizing titles that engage children in thinking about global community.

We Are Kid Lit's summer reading list, promoting Black, Indigenous and People of Color voices in youth literature. 

 

 

Leverage Public Libraries!

Your local library - and any public library in communities you visit this summer - offers programs for all ages, reading challenges, and opportunities to volunteer. Check out all that they have to offer!


 

2024 SummerReads

SummerReads is the library's suite of recommended reading lists. Compiled by Pike Librarians Francesca Mellin and Davita Block, these Padlet curations are updated annually with a commitment to highlighting diverse and inclusive perspectives and a focus on enjoyable, age-relevant titles. 

Select your incoming grade for fall 2024 to view your Padlet list. 

PreK/K      1/2    3/4   5/6      7/8/9   Amazing Audio (all ages)  

2023 SummerReads By Incoming Grade

SummerReads is the library's suite of recommended reading lists. Compiled by Pike Librarians Francesca Mellin and Davita Block, these Padlet curations are updated annually with a commitment to highlighting diverse and inclusive perspectives and a focus on enjoyable, age-relevant titles. 

2022 SummerReads By Incoming Grade

PreK/K   1st Grade   2nd/3rd Grade   4th Grade   5th/6th Grade   7th Grade    8th/9th Grade   Amazing Audio  

SummerReads is the library's collection of recommended reading lists. They are updated annually with a commitment to representing diverse and inclusive perspectives.

SummerReads 2021

he Reading Without Walls Challenge

The Reading Without Walls Challenge was created in 2016 by Gene Luen Yang, a former National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature. He challenges us to:

1. Read a book about a character who doesn’t look like you or live like you.

2. Read a book about a topic you don’t know much about.

3. Read a book in a format that you don’t normally read for fun. This might be a chapter book, a graphic novel, a book in verse, a picture book, short stories, or an audiobook.

PreK/K   1st Grade   2nd/3rd Grade   4th Grade   5th/6th Grade   7th Grade    8th/9th Grade   Amazing Audio  

Compiled by Pike Librarians Francesca Mellin and Linda Spence, SummerReads is the library's collection of recommended reading lists. They are updated annually with a commitment to representing diverse and inclusive perspectives.

SummerReads 2020

At the Pike Library, we encourage students to read widely, whether it be a new genre or series, a book set in another country, or about a character different from themselves. By opening the pages of a novel or a picture book, we can travel to the Harlem Renaissance, to Hong Kong, or to Hogwarts, all courtesy of an author’s imagination. 

Lower School 2020   Middle School 2020   Upper School 2020   9th Grade (GoodReads)

SummerReads lists are updated annually with a commitment to representing multicultural and diverse perspectives.