The Kojo Nnamdi Show

Kathie Meizner, library manager with Montgomery County Public Libraries, and Maureen Johnson, author of "The Name of the Star," share their picks for the best summer reads in children's books.

Kathie Meizner's Picks:

Picture Books

Green

by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Roaring Brook Press

Bear Has a Story to Tell

by Philip C. Stead

Roaring Brook Press

A Home for Bird

by Philip C. Stead

Roaring Brook Press

We March

by Shane W. Evans

Roaring Brook Press

The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? (Pigeon)

by Mo Willems

Hyperion Book CH

Chloe and the Lion

by Mac Barnett

Hyperion Book CH

Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas

by Molly Bang, Penny Chisholm

The Blue Sky Press

Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle

by Claire A. Nivola

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Bink and Gollie, Two for One

by Kate DiCamillo, Alison McGhee

Candlewick

Chapter Books

A Greyhound of a Girl

by Roddy Doyle

Amulet Books

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again

by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Candlewick

Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies

by Marc Aronson

Candlewick

The Amazing Harry Kellar: Great American Magician

by Gail Jarrow

Calkins Creek

Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 (Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor (Awards))

by Phillip Hoose

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Titanic: Voices From the Disaster

by Deborah Hopkinson

Scholastic Press

Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World

by Sy Montgomery, Temple Grandin

Houghton Mifflin Books for Children

Books By Local Authors

Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman

by Marc Tyler Nobleman

Charlesbridge Publishing

Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem

by Rosalyn Schanzer

National Geographic Children's Books

Bring On the Birds

by Susan Stockdale

Peachtree Publishers

Go for the Goal! (Fred Bowen Sports Stories)

by Fred Bowen

Peachtree Publishers

Alice on Board

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Books About The Civil Rights Movement

Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr's Final Hours

by Ann Bausum

National Geographic Children's Books

To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement (New York Times)

by Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Flash Point

We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards))

by Cynthia Levinson

Peachtree Publishers

Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years

by Linda Barrett Osborne

Abrams Books for Young Readers

Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration (Captured History)

by Shelley Tougas

Compass Point Books

The Lions of Little Rock

by Kristin Levine

Putnam Juvenile

No Crystal Stair (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books)

by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Carolrhoda Books

Maureen Johnson

Younger Readers

Toys Come Home: Being the Early Experiences of an Intelligent Stingray, a Brave Buffalo, and a Brand-New Someone Called Plastic (Toys Go Out)

by Emily Jenkins

Schwartz & Wade

Charmed Life

by Diana Wynne Jones

Greenwillow Books

Middle Grades

See You at Harry's

by Jo Knowles

Candlewick

Young Adult

The Book of Blood and Shadow

by Robin Wasserman

Knopf Books for Young Readers

Team Human

by Justine Larbalestier, Sarah Rees Brennan

HarperTeen

Code Name Verity (Edgar Allen Poe Awards. Best Young Adult (Awards))

by Elizabeth Wein

Hyperion Book CH

For Darkness Shows the Stars

by Diana Peterfreund

Balzer + Bray

Every Day

by David Levithan

Knopf Books for Young Readers

The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green

Dutton Juvenile