Read With Jenna Jr Summer Book List 2023 available online, check all 24 books on the kid friendly reading list. Jenna Bush Hager has hand-selected each of the books on the summer reading list. Read with Jenna Summer Book Club is a collection of twenty four books including 8 picture books, 10 middle grade books and 6 young adult picks. The picks range from classics that you might’ve grown up reading to brand-new books published earlier this year. The Read With Jenna Jr Summer Books list reflects diverse topics and hopefully has enough characters for every kid to feel represented.
While choosing the books, Jenna Jr. kept all different kinds of young readers in mind, from reluctant readers to new readers to more advanced users. Above all, she tried to find books that would be impossible to put down.
Read with Jenna Summer Book Club
Summer is a chance for your child to solidify a reading habit, one that may morph into a lifelong love of reading. For the 2nd year in a row, Read With Jenna Jr. initiative has been introduced with the mission of making reading fun for kids, one book at a time. Each of the 24 books on the Read With Jenna Jr Summer Reading list has been hand-selected by Jenna Bush Hager.
Picture Books
| Name of Book | Author |
|---|---|
| Very Good Hats | Emma Straub |
| Juneteenth | Van G. Garrett |
| Summer is for Cousins | Dr. Rajani LaRocca |
| Why Did the Monster Cross the Road? | R.L. Stine and Marc Brown |
| Big | Vashti Harrison |
| The Giving Tree | Shel Silverstein |
| How to Write a Poem | Kwame Alexander |
Middle Grade
| Name of Book | Author |
|---|---|
| Are You There God? Its Me, Margaret | Judy Blume |
| Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea | Dav Pilkey |
| The One and Only Ruby | Katherine Applegate |
| Ways to Grow Love (A Ryan Hart Story 2) | Renée Watson |
| Fall of The School for Good and Evil | Soman Chainani |
| The Human Kaboom | Adam Rubin |
| Starfish | Lisa Fipps |
| School Trip: A Graphic Rovel | Jerry Craft |
| Joy, to the World | Kai Shappley and Lisa Bunker |
| The Language of Seabirds | Will Taylor |
Young Adult
| Name of Book | Author |
|---|---|
| Nigeria Jones | Ibi Zoboi |
| Warrior Girl Unearthed | Angeline Boulley |
| Borderless | Jennifer De Leon |
| The Summer I Turned Pretty | Jenny Han |
| The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich | Deya Muniz |
| The Night in Question | Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson |
| Victory. Stand! | Tommie Smith |
