One more summer reading list and we're done. Here's the Horn Book magazine's list of recommended books for children. Their choices range from picture books to YA novels, and they've convinced me to pick up a copy of Adam Rex's Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story when it comes out in paperback on July 26th. Because really, who could resist a title and cover like this one?

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And speaking of summer reading, NPR has been putting together a number of genre-specific recommended reading lists, including crime fiction, cookbooks, and historical novels. Their selections are frequently too gloomy for our tastes, but they've recommended a few books we're excited about, too: Manuel Munoz's What You See in the Dark (which we would buy based on the cover alone), 101Cookbooks.com blogger Heidi Swanson's Super Natural Every Day, Dorothy Wickenden's Nothing Daunted, a nonfiction account of her grandmother's adventures as a pioneer schoolteacher, and Ben Mezrich's Sex on the Moon, which will also be turning up on our list of recommended Father's Day Gifts... if we get around to making one in time.

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