Read a book or come to summer programs to earn tickets and enter to win one of our awesome prizes, including the Grand Prize: a chance to “Color Your Soles” by designing your own custom pair of shoes. We will draw winning tickets at the Ice Cream Social Summer Reading Wrap-Up Party on 8/25!
WHPS Recommended Summer Reads
Rising 6th Graders
Duel by Jessixa Bagley
Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer by Jeffrey Boakye
The Hero’s Guide to Summer Vacation by Pablo Cartaya
The Shape of Lost Things by Sarah Everett
The Color of Sound by Emily Barth Isler
The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly
Code Name Kingfisher by Liz Kessler
Finn and Ezra’s Bar Mitzvah Time Loop by Joshua S. Levy
The Witching Wind by Natalie Lloyd
Deer Run Home by Clare LeZotte
The Everybody Experiment by Lisa Moore Ramee
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
Half Moon Summer by Elaine Vickers
Slouch by Christina Wyman
Heroes of the Water Monster by Brian Young
May the Best Player Win by Kyla Zhao
Rising 7th & 8th Graders
Boy 2.0 by Tracey Baptiste
Across so Many Seas by Ruth Behar
The Girls of Skylark Lane by Robin Benway
Dust by Dusti Bowling
Gamerville by Johnny Christmas
Crushed by Melanie Conklin
How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger
Hands by Torrey Maldonado
Bye Forever, I Guess by Jodi Meadows
Keeping Pace by Laurie Morrison
Red Bird Danced by Dawn Quigley
Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Mid-Air by Alicia Williams
Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
Rising 9th & 10th Graders
Future Tense—How We Made Artificial Intelligence and How It Will Change Everything by Martha Brockenbrough.
Rez Ball by Byron Graves
Threads that Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou
My Father, the Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang
An Appetite for Miracles by Laekan Zea Kemp
Halfway There by Christine Mari
The Davenports by Krystal Marquis
Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian
When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson
Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay
Louder than Hunger by John Schu
Heir by Sabaa Tahir
Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renee Watson
Sunrise Nights by Jeff Zentner and Brittany Cavallaro
Nutmeg Book Award
The Nutmeg Book Award, given each year by Connecticut librarians, encourages children in grades 2-12 to read quality literature and to choose their favorite from a list of ten nominated titles. Click below to see current and past nominees and winners:
WHPS Summer Reading Info
Summer Reading is generously supported by the West Hartford Library Foundation!