The recommendation lists below includes titles/authors at somewhat varied reading levels. Parents/students are encouraged, however, to look at the lists for the grade levels above and below the target grade.
For more recommendations, see School Library Journal's Summer Reading 2021. They did not make a 2022 version but this one still has some great recommendations.
Nonfiction Titles/Authors
Let’s Read-and-Find-Out Science Books
On My Own Biography (series)
On My Own History (series)
Magic School Bus (series) – Joanna Cole & Bruce Degen
Gail Gibbons
Steve Jenkins
Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls (Biographies)
Fiction Series
Cam Jansen – David Adler
Ivy and Bean – Annie Barrows
The Questioneers – Andrea Beaty
Amber Brown – Paula Danziger
Bailey School Kids– Debbie Dadey
Alvin Ho! – Lenore Look
Magic Tree House – Mary Pope Osborne
Junie B. Jones – Barbara Park
Calvin Coconut – Graham Salisbury
Dragonbreath / Harriet the Hamster Princess – Ursula Vernon
Authors
Harry Allard
Tomie de Paola
Nicola Davies
Kevin Henkes
Oliver Jeffers
Jonathan London
Peggy Parish
Jon Scieszka
William Stieg
Judith Viorst
Melanie Watt