2018 Summer Reading Program
“Reading Takes You Everywhere”
Books Featuring Travel and Transportation
For Little Ones (ages two – five)
Bailey, Linda. Carson Crosses Canada.
Barton, Byron. My Bike.
Bianchini, Bob. Charlie Rides: Planes, Trains, Bikes, and More!
Brown, Lisa. The Airport Book.
Brun-Cosme, Nadine. Daddy Long Legs.
Calmenson, Stephanie. No Honking Allowed.
Clarke, Jane. Old MacDonald’s Things That Go.
Colby, Rebecca. Motor Goose: Rhymes That Go.
Cooper, Elisha. Train.
Costello, David Hyde. Little Pig Saves the Ship.
Dopirak, Kate. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Car.
Dotlich, Rebecca Kai. Race Car Count.
Empson, Jo. Little Home Bird.
Engle, Margarita. All the Way to Havana.
Floca, Brian. Locomotive.
Gall, Chris. The Littlest Train.
Garcia, Emma. Chugga Chugga Choo Choo.
Griswell, Kim T. Rufus Blasts Off!
Keller, Joy. Monster Trucks.
Knapman, Timothy. Follow the Track All the Way Back.
Massie, Felix. Dogs in Cars.
McMullan, Kate. I’m Smart!
Muth, Jon. Mama Lion Wins the Race.
Novesky, Amy. Love Is a Truck.
Pendziwol, Jean E. Me and You and the Red Canoe.
Rosenbaum, Andria. Trains Don’t Sleep.
Takahashi, Kazue. Travels.
For Early Readers (ages five – six)
Virjan, Emma J. What This Story Needs Is a Vroom and a Zoom.
Moving-Up Books (ages six – eight)
Alter, Anna. Bon Voyage.
Fern, Tracey. Dare the Wind: The Record-Breaking Voyage of Eleanor Prentiss and the Flying Cloud.
Foster, Darlene. Amanda in New Mexico: Ghosts in the Wind.
Lester, Alison. Sophie Scott Goes South.
For Tweens (ages nine – twelve)
Alexander, Kwame. Solo.
Baratz-Logsted, Lauren. I Love You, Michael Collins.
Kennedy, Katie. What Goes Up.
Kirby, Matthew J. The Lost Kingdom.
Levy, Dana Alison. This Would Make a Good Story Someday.
McCall-Smith, Alexander. The Sands of Shark Island.
Mosier, Paul. Train I Ride.
Oppel, The Boundless.
Rundell, Katherine. The Explorer.
Telgemeier, Raina. Sisters.
Tolan, Stephanie. Applewhites Coast to Coast.
Nonfiction
Drummond, Allan. Pedal Power: How One Community Became the Bicycle Capital of the World.
Gertsberg, Inna. The Way Downtown: Adventure in Public Transit.
Gibbons, Gail. Transportation: How People Get Around.
Kelly, Scott. My Journey to the Stars.
Macy, Sue. Motor Girls! How Women Took the Wheel and Drove Boldly into the Twentieth Century.
Osborne, Linda Barrett. This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration.
Rockliff, Mara. Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 miles.
Smith, Matthew Clark. Lighter Than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman Pilot.
Thurlby, Paul. NY Is for New York.
Penny Peck, San Jose State University iSchool