Summer Reading is Killing Me! By Jon Scieszka

The Time Warp Trio – Joe, Sam, and Fred – find themselves face to face with characters of stories that they are suppose to read for their Summer Reading. How did all the characters get there? The boys discover that Fred stuck Sam’s summer reading list inside The Book. The Book was a gift from Joe’s uncle and it allows the boys to time travel. They were not going to use The Book this summer, but when the list was placed inside The Book they were thrown into a new world where storybook characters are alive! Trying to understand Joe says, "I saw Homer Price being carried by the Headless Horseman. Dracula was dragging Winnie the Pooh in a headlock. Mr. Twit was breaking Harold's Purple Crayon." Readers will recognize some of the characters and hopefully will be inspired to read other books to find out about the other characters. The boys need to find The Book and yank the list out before the evil teddy bear takes over all of the storybooks. With the help of “some girl”, (maybe Laura Ingalls? Anne of Green Gables? one of the Little Women?? they can't tell since they haven't read them!) the boys try and put a stop to the madness. Read Summer Reading is Killing Me! and see how many characters you recognize. Click on the link above to check out the other titles in this series, or visit the author Jon Sciezka's web site.

Wild Boars Cook by Meg Rosoff and Sophie Blackall

Horace, Morris, Boris, and Doris are back in their second book and they are hungry!! These bossy, smelly, stinky boars want pudding - massive pudding.- gross pudding! The boars add squid, donuts, bananas, and other unbelievable ingredients to their pudding. Doris stirs the pudding with her tail! UCK! Will the pudding be the "messiest, stickiest, gooiest, chewiest, most delicious pudding in the whole wide world”? Join the boars and see how it turns out. Also enjoy their first book, Meet the Boars.

Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath

Everyone in her small town thinks that her parents are lost at sea, but not 11-year-old Primrose Squarp. She asks, "Haven't you ever just known something deep in your heart without reason?" That is her feeling, her parents are on an island somewhere wondering if she is OK and she doesn’t much care what anyone else thinks. Primrose was left with a babysitter when her mother went out to rescue her father who failed to return from his fishing trip before a typhoon hit off the coast of their small British Columbia town, and the babysitter is getting paid three dollars an hour! The town council quickly tries to find a relative to take care of Primrose. Finally they find her Uncle Jack. Primrose has a lot to deal with, missing parents, a wacky uncle, accidentally setting the class guinea pig on fire, plus much more. The school counselor, Miss Honeycut was not very helpful. Primrose did find comfort in Kate Bowzer who is the cook and owner of The Girl on the Red Swing, a restaurant where everything is served on a waffle, anything you would like to eat. Join Primrose and the quirky adults in this charming adventure. Find out if Primrose is right about her parents. An added bonus are the recipes in the book. To find more titles by Polly Horvath check out her web site.

Judy Moody by Megan McDonald

Judy Moody was in a mood. Not a good mood. A bad mood. That is the title of the book and it tells you what to expect! Judy Moody is not happy about starting third grade! She knew it would not be as fun as second grade. She was right, her seat?, right in the front row next to Frank "Eats-Paste" Pearl.....PLEASE! When she is assigned to do a "Me collage" for school she puts it together with a lot of thought and hard work. She decides that her cat is too boring for her pet section so she goes to pick out a new pet for her "Me collage". When she can't find a two-toed sloth, she ends up with a Venus fly-trap. Do you know what to feed a Venus fly-trap? Raw hamburger, gross! Join Judy in her adventure through third grade. If you like this one, check out the other titles in her series at JudyMoody.com