Selected Reading for Summer

We’re Unearthing Stories at Danbury Library this summer!

Challenge yourself to read every day – to learn new things, become a stronger reader, and just to have fun.

Danbury Library has a trove of great books, magazines, and more to choose from. Pick up your favorites or find a hidden gem. Here’s a list of suggested titles to inspire your next reading expedition!

Unearth a Story Danbury Library. Illustration of digging underground.

Pre-Readers

Dig dig dinosaur / written by Professor Anjali Goswami
Can you dig like a digger? / illustrated by Cocoretto
Planet Earth / Jill McDonald
Big trucks, little pups : an opposites book / [illustrated by Dave Aikins]
Dino-Earth Day / Lisa Wheeler
Tiny T. Rex and the first-day oopsies : a back-to-school book / by Jonathan Stutzman
Dinosaur shapes / Paul & Henrietta Stickland
I'm a hungry dinosaur / Janeen Brian ; with illustrations by Ann James
Five enormous dinosaurs / illustrated by Annie Kubler & Sarah Dellow

More for Pre-Readers

Grades K-1

Not a box / Antoinette Portis
I want my hat back / Jon Klassen
The bad seed / written by Jory John
Pete the Cat : I love my white shoes / story by Eric Litwin
Don't let the pigeon drive the bus! / words and pictures by Mo Willems
The very hungry caterpillar / by Eric Carle
Giraffes can't dance / by Giles Andreae
Grumpy monkey / by Suzanne Lang ; illustrated by Max Lang
The pout-pout fish / Deborah Diesen

More for Grades K-1

Grades 2-3

Pizza and Taco : who's the best? / Stephen Shaskan
My weird school : class pet mess! / Dan Gutman ; pictures by Jim Paillot
EllRay Jakes is not a chicken / by Sally Warner ; illustrated by Jamie Harper
Dragons and marshmallows / story by Asia Citro ; pictures by Marion Lindsay
Ivy + Bean : no news is good news / by Annie Barrows ; [illustrated by] Sophie Blackall
Eva and the new owl / Rebecca Elliott
Dinosaurs : a nonfiction companion to Magic tree house #1: Dinosaurs before dark
The bad guys / Aaron Blabey
Narwhal : unicorn of the sea / [written and illustrated by] Ben Clanton
Time jumpers / Brandon Mull
Mercy Watson to the rescue / Kate DiCamillo

More for Grades 2-3

Grades 4-5

J vs. K / Kwame Alexander and Jerry Craft
I survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 : the graphic novel
Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart / by Candace Fleming
The bluest sky / Christina Diaz Gonzalez
It found us / Lindsay Currie
Amari and the despicable wonders / B.B. Alston
Odder / Katherine Applegate
A wolf called Wander / Rosanne Parry
Daughter of the deep / Rick Riordan
When stars are scattered / Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
A tale of magic... / Chris Colfer

More for Grades 4-5

Middle Grades

Fossil / written by Paul D. Taylor
Mid-Air / Alicia D. Williams
The tryout / written by Christina Soontornvat
All thirteen : the incredible cave rescue of the Thai boys' soccer team / Christina Soontornvat.
The underground abductor : An Abolitionist Tale / Nathan Hale.
Dinosaurs & other prehistoric life : an encyclopedia of fantastic facts / written by William Potter, Alicia Williamson, and Richard Mead
Stories of the islands / Clar Angkasa
Minecraft : wither without you / by Kristen Gudsnuk
Keeper of the lost cities / by Shannon Messenger
Holes / Louis Sachar
The storm runner / by J.C. Cervantes

More for Middle Grades

Young Adults

Dig / by A.S. King
A deathly compendium of poisonous plants : wicked weeds and sinister seeds / Rebecca E. Hirsch
The bones of Birka : unraveling the mystery of a female Viking warrior / C.M. Surrisi
Fireworks / Alice Lin
What the river knows : a novel / Isabel Ibañez.
Rock & gem : the definitive guide to rocks, minerals, gems and fossils
Elatsoe / Darcie Little Badger ; illustrated by Rovina Cai
Absolutely everything! : a history of Earth, dinosaurs, rulers, robots, and other things too numerous to mention / Christopher Lloyd
How to excavate a heart / Jake Maia Arlow
Dinosaurs : how they lived and evolved / Darren Naish & Paul Barrett

More for Young Adult

Adults

Atmosphere : a love story / Taylor Jenkins Reid
Ghalen : a romance in black / Walter Mosley
John of John / Douglas Stuart
Remarkably bright creatures : a novel / Shelby Van Pelt
Our perfect storm : a novel / Carley Fortune
All them dogs : a novel / by Djamel White
Seek the traitor's son / Veronica Roth
Land : a novel / Maggie O'Farrell
A Perfect hand : a novel / by Ayelet Waldman
Keeper of my kin : memoir of an immigrant daughter / Ada Ferrer
Take me to your leader : perspectives on your first alien encounter / Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Last one out : a novel / Jane Harper
Jurassic Park : a novel / by Michael Crichton

More for Adults