summer reading suggestions

Here are a few of the books I recommend anyone over the age of 10 to read. Most likely you would find them among juvenile novels in a library or bookstore, but the stories also have a strong appeal to adults.

Olivetti by Allie Millington is one I read this winter/spring. The story is told partly by Olivetti, who happens to be a typewriter. It is about friendship and family.

A Duet for Home by Karina Yan Glaser is about June and Tyrell, who live at a homeless shelter. Tyrell has been there for a few years, but June is new. A book that gives a person reason to think and also understand better the life of children in such situations.

Twenty and Ten by Claire Bishop is a story of some children in France who help hide Jewish children from the Nazis during World War II. My sixth-grade teacher Miss Milner read this to our class.

The Winter King by Christine Cohen is a book I wrote about here. I plan to reread it this summer.

Do you have any recommended books for summer reading?

The Bletchley Riddle

 

The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin is a juvenile novel that adults would also enjoy.  Lizzie and her brother Jakob live in England at the start of World War II.  Lizzie is supposed to be go to America to be with her grandmother.  She figures out how to remain near her brother Jakob so she can also try to find out what happened to their mother.  This book has adventure and mystery rolled together to give readers another perspective on World War II that I haven't seen in many novels.  It would make a decent read aloud to older elementary or middle school students.