Hot Summer Reads from Sherwood Regional Library

Fairfax County Public Library will kick off its annual Summer Reading Program for kids and teens on June 21. Participants can earn a coupon book full of great discounts once they complete their summer reading and return their form by September 3. 

Mount Vernon Patch asked Cathy Noonan, Youth Services Manager at Sherwood Regional Library, for some recommendations for great summer reads. 

Preschool to Grade 2 - Fiction

Bats at the Beach by Brian Lies
A family of bats picnic, moon-bathe, and toast "bug-mallows" at the beach.

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fables to Read Together by Mary Ann Hoberman
This book told "in two voices" uses traditional reading teaching techniques -alliteration, rhyme, and repetition -to invite young children to read along with peers or with an adult.

Preschool to Grade 2 - Nonfiction

Brave Dogs, Gentle Dogs: How They Guard Sheep by Cat Urbigkit
A captivating photo essay on working dogs who guard sheep in the Western U.S.

Grade 3 to Grade 6 - Fiction

Crazy Mixed-Up Spanglish Day by Marisa Montes
Maritza Gabriela Morales Mercado, or Gabi, is a third-grader who speaks Spanish at home and English at school. When she gets "super stressed" by her worst enemy, Johnny, she starts to mix up the two languages.

Larklight: or, the Revenge of the White Spiders! by Philip Reeve 
Residents of Larklight, a floating house in outer space, Arthur a nd his sister Myrtle uncover a plot to destroy the solar system.

Grade 3 to Grade 6 - Nonfiction

Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich by Adam Rex 
Monsters go from bad to verse!

Goha, the Wise Fool by Denys Johnson-Davies 
Is he really a fool or is he wiser than them all? Funny stories from the Middle East

Teens - Fiction

Lionboy: the First Book in a Trilogy by Zizou Corder 
Charlie arrives home from school and discovers his scientist parents have been kidnapped in this first of a trilogy. A chase that takes him across several countries, finds him enlisting the aid of lions imprisoned in a circus. You MUST read the sequels!

Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Hope, 16, and her Aunt Addie take work in small town Mulroney's Welcome Stairway Diner and find a big life of love, loss, community and food.

Teens - Nonfiction

Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi B SATRAPI
A memoir in comic strip form continues where Persepolis ends - Marjane is leaving Iran and arriving in Austria to attend high school.