Graham Summer Reads 2019
Recommendations from Graham staff and fellow Graham Bears!
Classics
Call of the Wild by Jack London (Mrs. Russell recommends)
The Iliad (Graphic Novel) by Gareth Hinds (Mrs. Ross recommends)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Ms. Dorocak recommends)
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (Mrs. Funsten recommends)
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Ms. Dorocak recommends)
1984 by George Orwell (Mr. Brown recommends)
Fantasy
Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi (Angel Q. recommends)
Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy (Ms. Kafka recommends)
Dactyl Hill Squad by Daniel Jose Older
Keeper of the Lost Cities, entire series by Sharon Messenger (Angel Q. recommends)
The Ruins of Gorlan, The Ranger's Apprentice Book #1 by John Flanagan
The Unwanteds by Lisa McCann (Ms.Kafka recommends)
Historical Fiction
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Ms.Berry recommends)
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Mr. Taylor recommends)
Jefferson's Sons by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Mr. Taylor recommends)
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Frau Ditty recommends)Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (Mrs. Russell recommends)
Mystery
The Candymakers by Wendy Maas (Ms. Kafka recommends)
The Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse (Ms. Schlachterman recommends)Greenglass House by Kate Milford (Ms. Kafka recommends)
Holes by Louis Sachar (Frau Ditty recommends)
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (Ms. Martinez recommends)
Winterhouse by Ben Guterson (Mrs. Ross recommends)
Realistic Fiction
The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden (Mrs. Russell recommends)
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt (Iliana A. recommends)
I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosin (Ilianna A. recommends)
Merci Suárez Changs Gears by Meg Medina
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart (Mrs. Russell recommends)Wishtree by Katherine Applegate (Mrs. Ross recommends)
Science Fiction
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (Graham Book Club recommends!)
The Only Thing to Fear by Caroline Tung Richmond (Ms. Jessica Lee recommends)
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Mrs. Black recommends)
Young Adult
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden (Ms. Jessica Lee recommends)
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Ms. Solorzano recommends)Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan (Ms. Schlachterman recommends)
Non-fiction:
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil Degrasse Tyson (Ms. Berry recommends)
Becoming by Michelle Obama (Ms. McDonald recommends)
Burro Genius by Victor Villaseñor (Mr. Hermosillo recommends)
The Faithful Spy by John Hendrix (Mrs. Ross recommends)
Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard (Ms. Berry recommends)