Are your children participating in the Read Beyond the Beaten Path Children's Summer Reading Challenge and looking for some ideas on what to read? Check out some Librarian recommendations below.
History
- Atua : Māori gods and heroes by Gavin Bishop
- Shackleton's Journey by William Grill
- The Rabbits by John Marsden
- Once by Morris Gleitzman
- Any title in the Little People Big Dreams series
Arts & Crafts
- 150 Things to Make and Do with Peppa (Peppa Pig)
- Frida Kahlo by Ma Isabel Sánchez Vegara
- The Dot by Peter Reynolds
- The Mona Mousa code in the Geronimo Stilton series
- Trixie Pickle, art avenger by Olaf Falafel
Horror
- Any of the Diary of a Minecraft Zombie series
- This book is not a bedtime story! by Eoin McLaughlin
- Megamonster by David Walliams
- The Last Kids on Earth series by Max Brallier
- Any from the Goosebumps series
Cooking
- Bluey and Bingo's fancy restaurant cookbook
- Pip loves to cook by Sally Rippin
- The grandmothers of Pikitea Street / Ngā kuia o te Tiriti o Pikitea by Renisa Viraj Maki
- Ruru's Hāngī by Nikki Slade-Robinson
- The what the ladybird heard cookbook by Julia Donaldson
Graphic Novels
- Any of the CatStronauts series
- The Amulet series
- The Baby-sitters Little Sister graphic novel series
- The Bad Guys series
- Marvel Museum by Ned Hartley
Mystery
- Precious and the mystery of the missing lion by Alexander McCall Smith
- The mystery of the missing cake by Claudia Boldt
- Super puzzletastic mysteries : short stories for young sleuths from Mystery Writers of America
- Funjungle series
- Murder Most Unladylike series
Science Fiction
- Any of the E-Boy series by Anh Do
- Spaceboy
- The science fair is freaky!
- The library of ever
- StarTalk : everything you ever need to know about space travel, sci-fi, the human race, the universe, and beyond
Sports
- Rising Star Deadly D and Justice Jones Series by Scott Prince and David Hartley
- Champ series
- Maisy’s sports day
- Football mad series
- Showtym adventures series
Fantasy
- Spell Sweeper by Lee Edward Födi
- The Forests of Silence by Emily Rodda
- The Wings of Fire series
- Faraway Tree series
- Hare Pota me te whatu manapou
Theatre
- Maisy goes to a show by Lucy Cousins
- Omar the Strongman by Gregory Rogers
- Drama by Raina Telgemeier
- Boys dance!
- The Marvels by Brian Selznick
Nature
- Aroha knows by Craig Phillips
- What colour is the sky? by Laura Shallcrass
- The illustrated encyclopaedia of ugly animals by Sami Bayly
- The illustrated Origin of species. by Charles Darwin
- What if? : serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions by Randall Munroe
Want to know more about the challenge?
Head to our challenge blog here for all the details of the challenge.