The Lynnfield Public Library is open all summer long to help Lynnfield Public School students find their summer reading books! A selection of the books for grades one through four can be found on the blue cart in the Lynnfield Library Children’s Room along with “Fish in a Tree” and “El Deafo.” To find the other titles included in this list, please visit our catalog or call/visit for help. For assignment details, please visit the Lynnfield Public Schools Summer Reading Assignment site.
For first through fourth grades:
This summer the elementary school has published a list of suggested books for students. A selection of them, along with the LPS Elementary Summer of Fun Calendar, can be found on the blue Summer Reading cart in the Children’s Room.
For fifth grade:
“El Deafo” by Cece Bell
For sixth grade:
“Fish in a Tree” by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
For seventh and eighth grades
Each incoming seventh or eighth grader is required to read one book over the summer. Students have chosen a book to read that is sponsored by one of next year’s grade seven or eight teachers. Students should check their Google Classroom if they have forgotten their assigned book.
Grade seven:
“Blackthorn Key” by Kevin Sands
“Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins
“Front Desk” by Kelly Yang
“Ghost” by Jason Reynolds
“The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins
“I will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives” by Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifrenks, and Lauren Welch
“Out There” by Seaerra Miller
“Rebound (The Crossover Series)” by Kwame Alexander
“Shoe Dog (Young Reader Edition)” by Dave Eggers
“Wood Runner” by Gary Paulsen
Grade eight:
“Chains” by Laurie Halse Anderson
“Downriver” by Will Hobbs
“Out There” by Seaerra Miller
“The Disappearing Spoon (Young Reader’s Edition)” by Sam Kean
“The Eyes and the Impossible” by David Eggers
“The Giver” by Lois Lowry
“The Inheritance Game #1” by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
“The Inheritance Game #2: The Hawthorne Legacy” by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
“The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton
“The Thieves Gambit” by Kayvian Lewis
For ninth through 12th grades:
“Everything, Everything” by Nicola Yoon
“If He Had Been with Me” by Laura Nowlin
“Simon vs. The Homo Sapien Agenda” by Becky Albertalli
“The Reappearance of Rachel Price” by Holly Jackson
“The Mists of Avalon” by Marion Zimmer Bradley
“Daisy Darker” by Alice Feeney
“You’d Be Home Now” by Kathleen Glasgow
“Ghost” by Jason Reynolds
“You are Not so Smart” by David McRaney
“End Zone” by Don DeLillo
“Queen Hereafter” by Isabelle Schuler
“Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China” by Paul French
“Darius the Great is Not Okay” by Adib Khorram
“Remarkably Bright Creatures” by Shelby Van Pelt
“A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail” by Bill Bryson
“Carrie” by Stephen King
“The Hunger Games” by Suzzane Collins
“Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus
“The Dip: A Little Book that Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)” by Seth Godin
“The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson
“Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens
“Acceptance” by Emi Nietfeld
“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien
“Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” by Jamie Ford
“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho
