In their most recent issue, The New York State United Teachers offered suggestions for summer reading. They asked school librarians for their favorites titles to motivate kids to read during July and August. Here are titles by age:
Grades K-2
Baby Brains by Simon James
Grandma's Gift by Eric Velasquez
How Rocket Learned To Read by Tad Hillis
We Are In a Book by Mo Willems
Grades 3-5
Danger and Diamonds by Elizabeth Levy
Keeper by Kathi Appelt
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger
Grades 6-8
Chains by Laurie Haise Anderson
Kiki Strike:Inside the Shadow City by Kirsten Miller
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez
Grades 9-12
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Leviathan by Scott Westerfield
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
For reading related games, quizzes, reading lists, book reviews, and other fun events at the 2011 Summer Reading at New York Libraries website here
Monday, July 4, 2011
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