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.
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.
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
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.