Summer Storms: A Reading List

Posted on August 5, 2019 By Hilltown Families

With the heat of August in New England come evening thunderstorms, lighting up the sky, providing a soundtrack, and cooling the earth. This month we are featuring titles exploring summer storms. This booklist includes a variety of titles for weathering storms of all kinds, from thunder and fog to hurricanes and floods. Not only do these storm titles touch upon relevant late-summer themes, but in some cases serve as important reminders of how to take on challenges and meet fears head-on, with the storms serving as metaphors for difficult moments in life.

Download our PDF guide to read about each title included in our storm list below!

Picture Books

Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
Flood by Mary Calhoun and Erick Ingraham
The Storm Book by Charlotte Zolotow and Margaret Bloy Graham
Hurricane by David Wiesner
Hide and Seek Fog by Alvin Tresselt and Roger Duvoisin
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett

Graphic Novel

Drowned City by Don Brown

Chapter Books

Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
Saint Louis Armstrong Beach by Brenda Woods
Voyage of the Frog by Gary Paulsen

Download our PDF guide
for more information about each title.

Robin Morgan Huntley

Robin joined Hilltown Families in 2011 as an intern and has remained with the organization ever since, first volunteering as a community-based education correspondent until 2016 and now as a contributing writer. Robin is a graduate of Hampshire College and Antioch University New England, where she studied place- and community-based education. She lives on the banks of the Sheepscot River in Maine, where she and her husband are working to start a small farm. Robin teaches at Juniper Hill School for Place-Based Education and is the founder of our first affiliate member of the Community-Based Education Network™, Dirigo Learning.