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Summer Reading Fun
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AWARDS AND HONORS WINNERS
YOUNG READERSHX425 A bear named Trouble, by Marion Dane Bauer (2008 Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Nominee)
HD697 Coming on home soon, by Jacqueline Woodson (2005 Caldecott Honor Book)
HV436 The deaf musicians, by Pete Seeger (2007 Schneider Family Book Award)
HM931 The hello, goodbye window, by Norton Juster (2006 Caldecott Medal Winner)
JC374 Henry's freedom box, by Ellen Levine (2008 Caldecott Honors winner)
HD696 Kitten's first full moon, by Kevin Henkes (2005 Caldecott Medal Winner)
JC224 Knuffle Bunny too: a case of mistaken identity, by Mo Willems (2008 Caldecott Honors winner)
HV588 Moses: when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom, by Carole Boston Weatherford (2007 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner)
HX237 The three pigs, by David Wiesner (2002 Caldecott Winner)
PRE-TEENSJA089 47, by Walter Mosley (2006-2007 Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers Nominee)
JB355 The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian, by Sherman Alexie (2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature)
HT338 Bella at midnight, by Diane Stanley (2008 Bluebonnet Awards Nominee)
JA232 Beyond the Valley of Thorns, by Patrick Carman (2007 Colorado Children's Book Award Nominee)
HW177 Crossing the wire, by Will Hobbs (2007-2008 Black-Eyed Susan Award Nominee)
HZ368 Feathers, by Jacqueline Woodson (2008 Newbery Medal honors winner)
HT331 Firegirl, by Tony Abbott (2008 Bluebonnet Award Nominee)
HX627 Free baseball, by Sue Corbett (2008 Virginia Reader's Choice Award Nominee)
HY032 The invention of Hugo Cabret: a novel in words and pictures, by Brian Selznick (2008 Caldecott Medal winner)
HY503 Rules, by Cynthia Lord (2007 Newbery Medal Honor Book)
HY474 The year of the dog: a novel, by Grace Lin (2008 North Carolina Children's Book Award Nominee)
TEENS AND ADULTS
HZ920 The assault on reason, by Albert Gore (2007 Quill Award for History/Current Events/Politics)
HW994 Einstein: his life and universe, by Walter Isaacson (2007 Quill Award for Biography/Memoir)
HP982 Everyman, by Philip Roth (2007 Pen/Faulkner Award winner for Fiction)
HX095 The inheritance of loss, by Kiran Desai (2006 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Fiction)
HW679 The looming tower: Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright (2007 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction)
HT570 The most famous man in America: the biography of Henry Ward Beecher, by Debby Applegate (2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography)
HZ105 On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan (2008 British Book Awards Book of the Year and Author of the Year)
HW740 The race beat: the press, the civil rights struggle, and the awakening of a nation, by Gene Roberts (2007 Pulitzer Prize for History)
HS766 The road, by Cormac McCarthy (2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; 2007 Quill Award for General Fiction)
HY009 Rough crossings: Britain, the slaves, and the American Revolution, by Simon Schama (2006 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for General Nonfiction)
FAVORITES
YOUNG READERS HX991 Dragon of the red dawn, by Mary Pope Osborne
HW991 Judy Moody gets famous!, by Megan McDonald
JB321 Junie B., first grader toothless wonder, by Barbara Park
JA261 Ginger and Petunia, by Patricia Polacco
JB979 The magic hockey stick, by Peter Maloney
HY505 The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane, by Kate DiCamillo
HT145 Olivia forms a band, by Ian Falconer
HW192 Probuditi!, by Chris Van Allsburg
JA045 Say what?, by Margaret Peterson Haddix
HQ052 Wemberly worried, by Kevin Henkes
PRE-TEENSJA157 Barfing in the backseat: how I survived my family road trip, by Henry Winkler
HX293 Endymion Spring, by Matthew Skelton
HX458 Fame and glory in Freedom, Georgia, by Barbara O'Connor
JA111 Igraine the brave, by Cornelia Caroline Funke
JA241 Love, Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli
HX993 Magyk, by Angie Sage
HX354 Marley: a dog like no other, by John Grogan
HX954 The merchant of death. Book One, by D. J. MacHale
JA107 Mickey and me, by Dan Gutman
HZ366 The sisters Grimm. Book One the fairy-tale detectives, by Michael Buckley
TEENS AND ADULTSHV281 The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation. Volume 1, The pox party taken from accounts by his own hand and other sundry sources, by M. T. Anderson
JC644 At first sight, by Nicholas Sparks
HY124 Body surfing: a novel, by Anita Shreve
JB440 Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia, by Elizabeth Gilbert
HY596 Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer
HB397 Grant comes east: a novel of the Civil War, by Newt Gingrich
JB130 The name of the wind: the kingkiller chronicle: day one, by Pat Rothfuss
HX082 Nineteen minutes: a novel, by Jodi Picoult
HV414 Red River, by Lalita Tademy
HY020 A thousand splendid suns, by Khaled Hosseini
HY114 Water for elephants: a novel, by Sara Gruen
LEARNING ABOUT OUR WORLD
YOUNG READERSHZ401 Ancient Greece and the Olympics: a nonfiction companion to Hour of the Olympics, by Mary Pope Osborne
HY593 Chico: a true story from the childhood of the first women Supreme Court Justice, by Sandra Day O'Connor
HY086 David's drawings, by Cathryn Falwell
HX358 The extinct files: my science project, by Wallace Edwards
HF660 Hour of the Olympics, by Mary Pope Osborne
HS675 Jazz, by Walter Dean Myers
HW320 Jesse Owens: fastest man alive, by Carole Boston Weatherford
HP914 A mother's journey, by Sandra Markle
HT346 Outside and inside mummies, by Sandra Markle
HX957 Wind flyers, by Angela Johnson
PRE-TEENSJA992 Amelia Earhart, by Tanya Lee Stone
JA109 The bomb, by Theodore Taylor
JA271 Bound, by Donna Jo Napoli
HZ895 Code talker: a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two, by Joseph Bruchac
JB503 Elizabeth I, red rose of the House of Tudor, by Kathryn Lasky
HX956 George Crum and the Saratoga chip, by Gaylia Taylor
JA245 Heroes don't run, by Harry Mazer
HZ467 Hey batta batta swing! the wild old days of baseball, by Sally Cook
JA866 In search of Mockingbird, by Loretta Ellsworth
HC223 In the company of soldiers: a chronicle of combat, by Rick Atkinson
JA867 Iron thunder: the battle between the Monitor & the Merrimac : a Civil War novel, by Avi
JA995 Profiles in sports courage, by Ken Rappoport
HY371 Shipwreck search: discovery of the H.L. Hunley, by Sally M. Walker
TEENS AND ADULTS HZ271 Giving: how each of us can change the world, by Bill Clinton
HW580 A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier, by Ishmael Beah
JB015 My grandfather's son: a memoir, by Clarence Thomas
HX193 Rethinking thin: the new science of weight loss--and the myths and realities of dieting, by Gina Bari Kolata
HY033 The short bus: a journey beyond normal, by Jonathan Mooney
HY127 Three cups of tea: one man's mission to promote peace ... one school at a time, by Greg Mortenson
HY798 The wild trees: a story of passion and daring, by Richard Preston
HX889 Women and money: owning the power to control your destiny, by Suze Orman
HV341 You, the owner's manual: an insider's guide to the body that will make you
healthier and younger, by Michael Roizen
STUDY SKILLSHY467 101 ways to adjust to high school, by Kaplan
HW336 Conquering the SAT: how parents can help teens overcome the pressure and succeed, by Ned Johnson
HY673 Cracking the SAT, by Adam Robinson
HN142 Learning to slow down and pay attention: a book for kids about ADHD, by Kathleen G. Nadeau
HY053 Nolo's IEP guide: learning disabilities, by Lawrence M. Siegel
HV672 The ring of McAllister: an SAT score-raising mystery featuring 1,046 must-know vocabulary words, by Robert Marantz
HX046 Self-advocacy skills for students with learning disabilities: making it happen in college and beyond, by Henry B. Reiff
HZ017 Writing the research paper: a handbook, by Anthony C. Winkler
HW900 Your college experience: strategies for success, (ed.) John N. Gardner
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