By Alex Lambright, Head of Youth Services
The Lynnfield Public Library is open all summer long to help Lynnfield Public School students find their summer reading books! These titles with the exception of Posted by John David Anderson and the high school student choice books, can be found on the green Summer Reading cart in the Children’s room. For assignment details please visit the Lynnfield Public Schools Summer Reading Assignment site.
For Grades 1st – 4th
(In addition to the All School Read a selection of the “Suggested Books for Your Family’s Enjoyment” are also located on the Summer Reading cart.)
- The Animal Toolkit by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page | Book |
- Over and Under the Waves by Kate Messner, Caves by Nell cross Beckerman | Book | E-book |
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff retold by Mac Barnett | Book | E-book | E-audio |
- Our Favorite Day of the Year by A.E. Ali | Book | E-book |
- Gold! By David Shannon | Book | E-book |
For 5th Grade
- Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook |
- El Deafo by Cece Bell | Book | E-Book |
For 6th Grade
- Fish in a Tree by Lynda Maullaly Hunt | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook |
For 8th Grade
For 9th – 12th Grade
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy | Book | E-Book | E-audio |
- The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of the Whiz Kids and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor by Ken Silverstein | Book |
- “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feyman!” : Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feyman |Book |
- Reborn in the USA: An Englishman’s Love Letter to His Chosen Home by Roger Bennett
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls | Book |
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson; Translated by Goran Skrobonja | Book | Large Print | E-book | Playaway | CD Audiobook |
- Where You’ll Find me: Risk, Decisions, and the Last Climb of Kate Matrosova by Ty Gagne; Illustrated by T.B.R. Walsh| Book |
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margrot Atwood | Book | Large Print | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook | Playaway |
- Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe by David Maraniss | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook |
- In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez | Book | E-Book | CD Audiobook |
- Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman | Book |
- Stradivari’s Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection by Toby Faber | Book |
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card | Book | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook |
- August: Osage County by Tracy Letts | Book |
- The Keeper by Tananarive Due & Steven Barnes; Illustrated by Marco Finnegan | Book | E-book |
- The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson | Book | Large Print | E-book | E- audio | CD Audiobook |
- The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel | Book | Large Print | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook |
- The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime that Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater | Book | E-book | E-audio | Playaway |
- No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg | Book | E- audio |
- Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown | Book | Large Print | E-book | E-audio | Playaway |
- Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hole in an American City by Andrea Elliott | Book | E-book |
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson | Book | E-audio | Playaway |
- All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Micheal Patrick MacDonald | Book | Large Print | E-book | E-audio |
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin | Book | E-audio |
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr | Book | Large Print | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook |
- Ariadne by Jennifer Saint | Book | E-book | E-audio |
- The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith by Gabrielle Bernstein | Book | E-book |
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle | Book | Large Print | E-book | CD Audiobook |
- How to Be Richer, Smarter, and Better-Looking Than Your Parents by Zac Bissonnette | Book |
- Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone | Book | E-book | E- audio |
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus | Book | Large Print | E-book | E-audio |
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom | Book | Large Print | E-book | E-audio | CD Audiobook |