These are recommended Chapter Book Fiction and Graphic Novels for the 2015 Summer Fun at the Library Program: Read to the Rhythm.
A downloadable & printable list of all Summer Fun recommended books for kids is available here.
Babymouse
(Gr. K-3) Babymouse has big dreams of making it to the Olympics and she’s diving right in. She still needs a little help though. Will all her hard work help her reach her Olympic dreams?
Echo
Grades 4-7
Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California, find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny during the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.
Hiding out at the Pancake Palace
(Grades 4-7) When musical prodigy, Elvis Ruby, completely freezes up on television, he is forced to hide out in the Pinelands of New Jersey and try to find his way back to the music once again with the help of a new friend.
Molly Moon & the monster music
(Grades 4-6) Molly Moon, master of many instruments, cannot resist a mysterious musical coin, but what happens when she learns the coin can turn its listeners into nightmarish monsters.
The Penderwicks in spring
(Grades 4-6) As spring arrives on Gardam Street, there are surprises in store for each Penderwick, from neighbor Nick Geiger's expected return from the war to Batty's new dog-walking business, but her plans to use her profits to surprise her family on her eleventh birthday go astray.
To dance : a memoir
(Grades 4-7) Dancers are young when they first dream of dance. Siena was six -- and her dreams kept skipping and leaping, circling and spinning, from airy runs along a beach near her home in Puerto Rico, to dance class in Boston, to her debut performance on stage with the New York City Ballet.
Trumpet of the swan
(Grades 4-6) Knowing how to read and write is not enough for Louis, a voiceless trumpeter swan; his determination to learn to play a stolen trumpet takes him far from his wilderness home.
Ukulele Hayley
(Grades 2-4) To save the ukulele band, third-grader Hayley and her classmates protest the school board's decision to cut funding for the music program. Includes tips on how to play the ukulele.
The way to stay in Destiny
(Grades 4-6) Sixth-grader Theo leaves everything behind to live with his Uncle Chester, a Vietnam War veteran and loner, in Destiny, Florida, but he is drawn to play the piano in Miss Sister's dance school and soon makes friends with the feisty Anabel, a baseball fanatic who invites Theo to help solve a mystery.
Yolonda's genius
(Grades 4-6) After moving from Chicago to Grand River, Michigan, fifth grader Yolonda, big and strong for her age, determines to prove that her younger brother is not a slow learner but a true musical genius.