Summer reads on the airwaves in a city near you

So, I’ll be on a radio tour for the next couple of weeks, which I love, since it involves zero travel and lots of time to talk books. They’ve asked me to recommend a few summer reads, both older and new. Here’s the list of titles I’m drawing from. I won’t be able to talk about all of them every time, but I hope to plug each of them at some point. Check out the list of stations on my events page and tune in if you can!

Picture Books

• A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin
• Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall
• Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero and illustrated by Zeke Peña
• Under My Hijab by Hena Khan and illustrated by Aaliya Jaleel
• Bilal Cooks Daal by Aisha Saeed and illustrated by Anoosha Syed

 Chapter Books and Early Middle Grade

• A Boy Called Bat by Elana Arnold (other titles in series: Bat and the Waiting Game and Bat and the End of Everything)
• Juana and Lucas: Big Problemas by Juana Medina (other titles in series: Juana and Lucas)
• The Magnificent Mya Tibbs by Crystal Allen (other titles in series: Spirit Week Showdown and The Wall of Fame Game)
• Dory Fantasmagory by Abby Hanlon (four books in series; next installment this fall.)

Middle Grade

• The Last-Last Day of Summer by Lamar Giles
• Silver Meadows Summer by Emma Otheguy
• The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden
• New Kid by Jerry Craft
• The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
• The True History of Lyndie B. Hawkins by Gail Shepherd
• Raymie Nightingale, Louisiana’s Way, in preparation for Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo
• The Vanderbeekers series by Karina Yan Glaser
• The Jumbies series by Tracey Baptiste (other titles in the series: The Rise of the Jumbies and The Jumbie’s Gods Revenge (due out Sept 3)

Young Adult

• With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Spin by Lamar Giles
• Far From the Tree, new in paperback this summer, by Robin Benway
• When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

Especially for Poets 

• A Maze Me: Poems for Girls by Naomi Shihab Nye
• Emmy in the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido

Looking for more ideas?  Try here at the We Are Kid Lit Collective!