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 worship Fancy Nancy, try Sophie’s Squash.

We’ll always have a soft spot for Nancy and her over-the-top shenanigans, but there are plenty of other high-spirited girl characters out there to enjoy, too. Sophie pushes imagination and creativity to a new level when she decides to make a pet of the butternut squash her parents bring home from the farmers’ market. What will happen when the treasured squash begins to sport brown spots? Sophie’s unconventional solution will surprise and delight.

Good for: ages 3-7

Available at powells.com, $16.99.