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These delightful beginning readers feature simple sentences, accessible design, and text features that strengthen emerging readers' decoding and comprehension skills. 

Our top summer reading picks for picture books and beginning readers.

Highly recommended chapter books for independent readers to enjoy all summer long. 

Highly recommended middle grade fiction and nonfiction for readers to enjoy all summer long. 

Highly recommended young adult fiction and nonfiction for teens to enjoy all summer long. 

Highly recommended nonfiction for young readers, tweens, and teens to enjoy all summer long. 

Highly recommended graphic novels for young readers, tweens, and teens to enjoy all summer long. 

From crafting to cooking to stargazing, these lists recommend several books on a common theme or subject with selections for a variety of ages and reading levels—making them perfect ways to inspire reading, talking, and playing together as a family. 

SLJ presents our top picks for summer reading, from read-alouds to share with the youngest prereaders to engrossing titles for tweens and teens. The majority of the titles have been published over the last two years, almost all of them are available as ebooks, and many of them have received starred reviews or been selected as past Best Books. New lists will publish every week during the month of June, with additional lists in July and August.