The Kojo Nnamdi Show

Recommendations for the best reads of the summer from book editors and independent bookstore owners.

Dinah Paul, Owner, A Likely Story Children's Bookstore

Picture books/Younger Readers

Lilly's Big Day

by Kevin Henkes

Greenwillow Books

John, Paul, George & Ben

by Lane Smith

Hyperion Book CH

Bear's New Friend

by Karma Wilson

Margaret K. McElderry Books

Olivia Forms a Band

by Ian Falconer

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Walk On!: A Guide for Babies of All Ages

by Marla Frazee

Harcourt Children's Books

This Little Piggy with CD: Lap Songs, Finger Plays, Clapping Games and Pantomime Rhymes

by

Candlewick

Poetry Speaks to Children (Book & CD) (A Poetry Speaks Experience)

by

Sourcebooks MediaFusion

If I Built a Car

by Chris Van Dusen

Dutton Juvenile

Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship

by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, Paula Kahumbu

Scholastic Press

Older Readers

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

by Kate DiCamillo

Candlewick

Heat

by Mike Lupica

Philomel

Gossamer

by Lois Lowry

Houghton Mifflin Company

The Wright 3

by Blue Balliett

Scholastic Press

The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp (Alfred Kropp Adventures)

by Richard Yancey, Rick Yancey

Bloomsbury USA Childrens

Fly by Night

by Frances Hardinge

HarperCollins

Paperbacks

The Star of Kazan

by Eva Ibbotson

Puffin

Hoot

by Carl Hiaasen

Ember

Peter and the Starcatchers

by Ridley Pearson, Dave Barry

Disney Editions

Barbara Hoffert, Editor, Library Journal Book Review

The Dream Life of Sukhanov

by Olga Grushin

A Marian Wood Book/Putnam

The Brief History of the Dead: A novel

by Kevin Brockmeier

Pantheon

Back to Wando Passo: A Novel

by David Payne

William Morrow

Alentejo Blue

by Monica Ali

Scribner

A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4)

by George R. R. Martin

Bantam

Tenderwire

by Claire Kilroy

Mariner Books

Winter's Bone

by Daniel Woodrell

Little, Brown and Company

A Woman in Jerusalem

by A. B. Yehoshua

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Brambles

by Eliza Minot

Knopf

Carla Cohen, Co-Owner, Politics and Prose

Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero

by David Maraniss

Simon & Schuster

Let Me Finish

by Roger Angell

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

by Franklin Foer

Harper Perennial

The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup

by

Harper Perennial

The Foreign Correspondent: A Novel

by Alan Furst

Random House

The Night Gardener

by George Pelecanos

Little, Brown and Company

No Good Deeds: A Tess Monaghan Novel (Tess Monaghan Mysteries)

by Laura Lippman

William Morrow

Blow the House Down: A Novel

by Robert Baer

Crown

The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11

by Ron Suskind

Simon & Schuster

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

Vintage Books

The Bowl Is Already Broken: A Novel

by Mary Kay Zuravleff

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Bridget Warren, Chief of Public Relations & Programming, Prince George's County Memorial Library System

Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away

by June Cross

Viking Adult

Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica's Calabash Writer's Workshop

by

Akashic Books

The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad

by Minister Faust

Del Rey

A Million Nightingales: A Novel

by Susan Straight

Pantheon

Baby Brother's Blues: A Novel

by Pearl Cleage

One World/Ballantine

Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz

by Stanley Crouch

Basic Civitas Books

Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor

by

Bloomsbury USA