14 New Books That Feel Like Old Classics

During the summer, a great list of new reads is like a seventh-inning stretch for little minds. Get your budding literati amped up about reading with these 14 page-turning picture and chapter books. They may look and sound like the favorites your kids ask for night after night, but each one is a newfangled adventure waiting to be discovered. Scroll through the flip book below and we promise, the days of bugging them to fulfill summer reading requirements are over.

If they are thrilled by Magic Treehouse, try I Survived.

In Magic Treehouse (now up to number 53!), kids follow Jack and Annie to different times and places. Capture the same time-traveling, globe-trotting vibe with the exciting (and educational) I Survived series, which transports readers to famous disaster settings like the 1906 earthquake, the New Jersey shark attacks of 1916, Hurricane Katrina, the Titanic and World War II.

Good for: ages 7-11

Available at scholastic.com, $3.49.

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Which new book will you read to the family this summer? Share with us in a Comment!

—Emma Bland Smith

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