Nothing like curling up under a tree with a good book! This episode is full of summer reading recommendations from kids for kids--with a good mix of avid and reluctant readers ages 8-16 with interests spanning all the genres.

Here's a list of all the recommendations:

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Hudson (14):

Refugee by Alan Gratz

Ground Zero, by Alan Gratz

Jacob (15):

Magic Treehouse Series, by Mary Pope Osborne

Halloween Party by Agatha Christie

Slacker series by Gordon Korman

Katie (13):

Resistance by Jennifer A Nielson

A Night Divided by Jennifer A Nielson

The False Prince and the rest of the Ascendant series by Jennifer A Nielson

Abel (15):

Michael Vey series by Richard Paul Evans

Aiden (16):

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls

Percy Jackson Series, by Rick Riordan

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Four Years Trapped in My Mind Palace by Johan Twiss

The House of Months and Years

Fablehaven by Brandon Mull

Claire (12):

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Anything by Gordon Korman

Lydia (8):

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Stuart Little by E.B. White

Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Heidi (10):

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

Wayside School Series by Louis Sachar

Catwad by Jim Benton

The Odd 1s Out by James Rallison

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

Ezra (9):

James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl

Holes, by Louis Sachar

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis

Whitney:

The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White

Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Masterminds, by Gordon Korman

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Anne of Green Gables Series by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene