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Click here to watch a video about Summer Reading Bingo!
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How it works:

  • When you complete a book, click on the category it fits in and enter the information. 

  • Your summer reading assignment is to read two books of your choice. For each of those books, you will receive a raffle ticket.

  • For each row (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) you complete on the reading bingo board, you will earn another raffle ticket. If you complete the whole board, you get an extra three tickets. The more you read, the more raffle tickets you will earn.
 
  • At the beginning of the school year, we will draw three tickets for each grade for a chance to win fun prizes like Wellesley Books gift cards, Raiders sweatshirts, homework passes, and more.

FAQ

  • You can only use a book for one square, even if it could fit in more than one spot.

  • No rereading books.
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  • You’ll be asked to write a two-sentence summary of each book you submit – that’s how we’ll know you read it!
Printable summer reading handout:
sr_21_overview.pdf
File Size: 370 kb
File Type: pdf
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Enter your experience here
Looking for a way to earn more tickets?
Do these things and tell us about it! For each experience you have (and submit an entry for), you'll earn a ticket. You can enter for each experience one time. 
  • Borrow a book from the library
  • Visit a bookstore (you don’t have to buy anything)
  • Attend a book club meeting 
  • Get into a passionate conversation with a friend about a book.
  • Listen to podcast
  • ​Read a magazine or newspaper (online or in print)
  • Submit a book review to a website (like Good Reads, if you're old enough)
  • Watch a movie or show based on a book you've read and tell us which you think is better

Book Suggestions

You can read any book that fits the category.
Here are some suggestions to get you started!

POPULAR SERIES
Harry Potter by JK Rowling
Keeper of Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger
Spy School by Stuart Gibbs
Legacy of Orisha by Tomi Adeyemi
Mo and Dale Mysteries by Sheila Turnage
NON-HUMAN CHARACTERS
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
Redwall by Brian Jacques
Last by Katherine Applegate
AUTHOR OF COLOR
Warcross by Marie Lu
Blended by Sharon Draper
The Serpent’s Secret by Sayantani Dasgupta
From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks
If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth
BOOKS OF SHORT STORIES
Baseball Crazy edited by Nancy Mercado
Half-Minute Horrors edited by Susan Rich
Once Upon an Eid edited by S.K. Ali
Explorer: The Mystery Boxes edited by Kazu Kibuishi
Flying Lessons & Other Stories edited by Ellen Oh
TURNED INTO MOVIES/SHOWS
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
Holes by Louis Sachar
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
SET DURING THE SUMMER
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Letters From Camp by Kate Klise
Finally, Something Mysterious by Doug Cornett
MYSTERY WITH TEEN DETECTIVE
Sunnyside Plaza by Scott Simon
Framed by James Ponti
Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
Clarity by Kim Harrington
NONFICTION
All Thirteen: the incredible cave rescue of the Thai boys’ soccer team by Christina Soontornvat
Born a Crime (young readers ed) by Trevor Noah
Hidden Figures (young readers ed) by Margot Lee Shetterly
Eleven Seconds by Travis Roy
The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin
NUMBER IN THE TITLE
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson
You Have Seven Messages by Stewart Lewis
8th Grade Super Zero by Olugbe Rhuday-Perkovich
SOME FEMALE/MALE MAIN CHARACTERS
Apple in the Middle by Dawn Quigley
The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time by Lisa Yee
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer by John Grisham
NEW ENGLAND AUTHORS
Anna Stanszewski (Dirt Diary, The Wonder of Wildflowers)​
Jarrett Krosoczka (Lunch Lady, Hey, Kiddo)
Rob Buyea (Because of Mr. Terupt, Perfect Score)
Padma Venkatraman (A Time to Dance, The Bridge Home)
Click here for book summaries 
CLASSICS
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
ONE-WORD TITLE
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Booked by Kwame Alexander
Compound by S.A. Bodeen
Rules by Cynthia Lord
AWARD-NOMINEES
The Season of Styx Malone by Kelka Magoon
Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen by Sarah Kapit
This is My Brain in Love by I.W. Gregorio
Turtle Boy by M. Evan Wolkenstein
Efren Divided by Ernesto Cisneros
PUBLISHED THE YEAR YOU WERE BORN
The Danger Box by Blue Balliett (2010)
A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper (2009)
11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass (2009)
Savvy by Ingrid Law (2008)
The Alchemyst by Michael Scott (2007)
VERSE BOOKS
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
House Arrest by KA Holt
Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones
SET OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
Real Time by Pnina Kass
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
The Land of Permanent Goodbyes by Atia Abawi
Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
NON-EARTH SETTING
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
We’re Not From Here by Geoff Rodkey
GRAPHIC NOVELS
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Grand Theft Horse by Neri G
Baba Yaga’s Assistant by Marika McCoola
Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
SPORTS BOOKS
The Way Home Looks Now by Wendy Wan-Long Shang
Game by Walter Dean Myers
Out of Left Field by Ellen Klages
Nikki on the Line by Barbara Carroll Roberts
Pippa Park Raises her Game by Erin Yun
MORE THAN 500 PAGES
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Box and the Dragonfly by Ted Sanders
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman
Wildwood by Colin Meloy
Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
BOOKS SET IN SCHOOL
The Looney Experiment by Luke Reynolds
The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani
The Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty
Miss Ellicott’s School for the Magically Minded by Sage Blackwood
The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt
LGBTQ MAIN CHARACTER
A High Five for Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner
The Pants Project by Cat Clarke
How to be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters
Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
Marco Impossible by Hannah Moskowitz

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