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Children's Summer Reading


Children's Summer Reading


Classics
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A Wrinkle in Time
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
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This special edition of A Wrinkle in Time includes a new essay that explores the science behind the fantasy. Rediscover one of the most beloved children's books of all time: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle: Meg Murray, her little brother Charles... (read more)

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Newbery Award Winners
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
Publisher Comments
The winner of the 1961 Newbery Medal, this novel is the story of a young Indian girl who is left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California for 18 years. She is not only surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance... (read more)

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Science Fiction and Fantasy
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The Phantom Tollbooth
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
Publisher Comments
Illustrated in black-and-white. This ingenious fantasy centers around Milo, a bored ten-year-old who comes home to find a large toy tollbooth sitting in his room. Joining forces with a watchdog named Tock, Milo drives through the tollbooth's gates and... (read more)

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Young Adult
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The Highest Tide
The Highest Tide
by Jim Lynch
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A mesmerizing, allegorical, and beautifully wrought first novel about one boy's wonder with the sea during the summer that will change his life, and the lives around him. One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley slips out of his house... (read more)

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Nonfiction General
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The Sign of the Beaver
The Sign of the Beaver
by Elizabeth George Speare
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Twelve-year-old Matt is left on his own in the Maine wilderness while his father leaves to bring the rest of the family to their new settlement. When he befriends Attean, an Indian chief’s grandson, he is invited to join the Beaver tribe and move... (read more)

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Middle Readers
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick
Publisher Comments
Orphan, clock keeper, thief: Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. Combining elements of picture book, graphic novel, and film, Caldecott Honor artist Selznick breaks open the novel... (read more)

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Teen Issues
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Blubber (Yearling Books)
Blubber (Yearling Books)
by Judy Blume
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Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it's like when she, too, becomes a target.... (read more)

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Adventure Stories
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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Wolves Chronicles)
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Wolves Chronicles)
by Joan Aiken
Publisher Comments
In this chilling beginning to The Wolves Chronicles, two little cousins are left in the care of an evil governess. They escape and travel 400 miles to London with their friend Simon and his geese. <BR>Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.... (read more)

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Sale Books
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Benny and Babe
Benny and Babe
by Eoin Colfer
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Benny, a sports-obsessed, carefree kid, is convinced that he can take on the world???until he spends the summer living with his grandfather and meets resident tomboy and all-around tough-girl Babe Meara. Benny may be a wise guy, but Babe is at least... (read more)

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Used Books
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An Abundance of Katherines
An Abundance of Katherines
by John Green
Publisher Comments
When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up... (read more)

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Bestsellers

Friday, July 10, 2009
A Wrinkle in Time
  1. A Wrinkle in Time
    by Madeleine L'Engle
  2. The Egypt Game (Yearling Newbery)
    by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  3. The Phantom Tollbooth
    by Norton Juster
  4. Island of the Blue Dolphins
    by Scott O'Dell
  5. The Highest Tide
    by Jim Lynch
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