“I carried a watermelon” Do you have a particular genre or author(s) you favour over the summer months? I don’t entirely eschew heavier or darker reads over the summer, but I do have a tendency to enjoy comics, contemporary, old favourites, and the funny (…much like I do in the middle of our Canadian winters, actually!). Just some of my picks: Rose Cooper’s Blogtastic! series Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy, The Long Secret Lois Lowry’s Anastasia Krupnik series Ellen Conford’s Seven Days to a Brand New Me The Spoiled series by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan Judy Blume’s Just as Long as We’re Together, Tiger Eyes Kit Pearson’s A Handful of Time Sophie B. Watson’s Cadillac Couches I Was a 98 Pound Duckling by Jean Van Leeuwen Jaclyn Moriarty’s Feeling Sorry for Celia Morgan Matson’s Second Chance Summer Jenny Han’s Summer series Vikki VanSickle’s Summer Days, Starry Nights Tera Lynn Childs’ Medusa Girls series (note: I still have book 3 left to read!) Sarah Dessen’s Along for the Ride, The Truth About Forever Enid Blyton’s Adventure Series Nina LaCour’s The Disenchantments Elinor Lipman’s The Inn at Lake Devine, The Pursuit of Alice Thrift Anything from Meg Cabot; The Boy Series in particular is a good, funny pick Sophie Kinsella’s The Undomestic Goddess, Can You Keep a Secret?, or the Shopaholic series Losing Joe’s Place by Gordon Korman Bill Amend’s FoxTrot comic strip series Rick Kirkman & Jerry Scott’s Baby Blues […]

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