It’s that time of year again to encourage students to participate in CONNECTICUT READS, the 2022 Governor’s Summer Reading Challenge! This year’s theme is Read Beyond the Beaten Path. Listed below are books from the 2022 Governor’s Summer Reading Challenge that are available through the CT State Library for the Blind in Talking Books (audio format). Visit the 2022 Governor’s Summer Reading Challenge web page for more information about this year’s challenge.
Governor’s Summer Reading Challenge 2022
Titles available in Talking Book format from the CT State Library for the Blind.
Books for Students in Grades K-2:
Camp Tiger by Susan Choi – DB96152
Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Pena – DB102043
We Wait for the Sun by Dove Johnson Roundtree – DB106673
Watercress by Andrea Wang – DB106498
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett – DB50751
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown – DB24603
Maria Had a Little Llama/ Maria Tenia una Llamita by Angela Dominguez – DB105855
George and Martha by James Marshall – DB49973
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin – DBC07134
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey – DB42913
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka – DB31436
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina – DB32425
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems – DBC00481
Books for Students in Grades 3-4:
Ivy + Bean Make the Rules by Annie Barrows – DB84412
J.D. and the Great Barber Battle by J. Dillard – DB103096
Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-be-Best-Friends by Dawn Quigley – DB105559
Stuntboy, in the Meantime by Jason Reynolds – DB105877
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf – DB25500
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren – DB71967
Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco – DB42870
All-of-a-Kind-Family by Sydney Taylor – DB25019
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White – DB74950
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams – DB24614
Books for Students in Grades 5-6:
A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements – DB60652
Alone by Megan E. Freeman – DB104269
Three Bird Summer by Sara St. Antoine – DB83487
Wildfire by W. R. Philbrick – DB103300
Healer of the Water Monster by Brian Young – DB104419
Efren Divided by Ernesto Cisneros – DB101951
Look Both Ways – Jason Reynolds by DB102479
One Kids Trash by Jamie Sumner – DB105875
Race to the Bottom of the Earth by Rebecca E.F. Barone – DB107139
Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome – DB92516
Saving Winslow by Sharon Creech – DB94323
The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez by Andrianna Cuevas – DB102445
The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman – DB100929
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson – DB99879
From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks – DB98670
Just Like Jackie by Lindsey Stoddard – DB95058
Nightbooks by J. A. White – DB92333
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery – DB56114
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park – DB53670
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson – DB48732
Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes – DB72604
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan – DB52960
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia – DB101119
Books for Students in Grades 7-8:
The Lovely and the Lost by Jennifer Lynn Barnes- DB95479
The Journey Back by Priscilla Cummings – DBC05355
Peak by Roland Smith – DB64746
Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich – DB103838
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming – DB73290
Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes – DB98876
One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite – DB103178
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas – DB101679
The Stitchers by Lorien Lawrence – DB105876
The Collectors by Lorien Lawrence – DB106033
The Line Tender by Kate Allen – DB94669
96 Miles by J. L. Esplin – DB99009
Game Changer by Tommy Greenwald – DB95657
The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson – DB90528
Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh – DB93122
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds -DB102479
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis – DB66054
Standing Against the Wind by Traci L. Jones – DB64961
The Giver by Lois Lowry – DB37689
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen – DB30535
Books for Students Grades 9-12:
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray – DB74169
Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall – DB103302
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey – DB76631
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna – DB104117
The Lightness of Hands by Jeff Garvin – DB99830
Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth – DB101947
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune – DB98951
A Girl, A Racoon, and a Midnight Moon by Karen Romano Young – DB98556
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes – DB102304
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee – DB101256
What I Carry by Jennifer Longo – DB103425
Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez – DB101185
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X. R. Pan – DB93502
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi – DB102501
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson – DB49958
Feed by M. T. Anderson – DB55687
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – DB24695
Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block – DB79655
Kindred by Octavia Butler – DB16072
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros – DB35608
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith – DB44769