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Welcome to the lazy, hazy days of summer!
In between all your fun in the sun, take time to relax with a great book. If you’re looking for some suggestions for books to read this summer, here are some good places to look:
Check out our Library’s web page to find printable suggested reading lists and great illustrated book reviews written by students in grades K-4 and book trailer videos created by 5th graders.
A Book and a Hug Here you will find all kinds of book suggestions, by age, by reading level, or by category
See more information about New York Public Libraries’ Summer Reading Program in the next blog post.
Have a great summer!
Enjoy this gallery in honor of Women’s History Month. Each picture in this gallery connects to a slide on a famous woman. Each slide has information, a brief video, and links to one or more books being read aloud.
Happy New Year everyone!
This time of year is a great opportunity to set goals, and it’s a perfect time to think about getting our kids to read more. Arranged by age group from babies to teens, here are some great tips from Brightly, a site devoted to “Raising Kids Who Love to Read.”
Welcome to the lazy, hazy days of summer! In between all your fun in the sun, take time to relax with a great book. If you’re looking for some suggestions for books to read this summer, here are some good places to look:
East Woods Library Web Site Check out our Library’s web page to find printable suggested reading lists and great illustrated book reviews written by students in grades K-4.
A Book and a Hug Here you will find all kinds of book suggestions, by age, by reading level, or by category
Capstone Interactive Summer Capstone Publishing is offering free access to their interactive books all summer long.
Our Fifth Grade students read a great selection of books this year as independent reading choices. They used an online application called Adobe Spark to create book trailers, or short videos that introduce their books without giving away the endings.
Here are their terrific trailers:
Jenna read the book A Dog’s Purpose, a story about a special dog and all of the friends he makes during his many lives.
Imagine needing to walk miles to survive. Jovana suggests that you read A Long Walk to Water.
If you like dragons and fantasy books, Lilah recommends the Wings of Fire series including The Lost Continent.
Ella recommends Deenie, a book about how a 7th grade girl has to cope with lots of challenges.
If you ever wanted to know what it was like to live with animals in the wild, Siena suggests that you read the biography Who is Jane Goodall?
Frankie recommends The Phantom Tollbooth, a fantasy adventure story, which has been loved for years.
Do you like ghost stories? Chloe suggests that you read All the Lovely Bad Ones.
If you like being in school plays, Charlie thinks you will like Drama.
If you like adventure stories, Landon recommends that you read Hatchet.
Michaela recommends the book Real Friends, a graphic novel about friendship.
Imagine having a brilliant photographic mind but being unable to share your thoughts. Sabrina recommends Out of My Mind.
John recommends that you read the exciting true adventures of a pararescue operator in Never Quit.
Would you like to be a wizard’s apprentice? If so, Ben thinks you will like the Evil Wizard Smallbone.
Imagine being home-schooled and then going to school for the first time in 5th grade! John suggests that you read about August’s story in Wonder.
Neela recommends that you read more about the characters of Wonder in the book Auggie and Me.
Ian read the exciting science fiction book, I am Number Four. It’s the first book in the Lorien Legacies series.
The Fifth Grade students read a great selection of books this year as independent reading choices. They used an online application called Adobe Spark to create book trailers, or short videos that introduce their books. Here are their terrific trailers:
Mia read the book Wish and found out why an 11-year old girl has been making the same wish every day.
Logan read Newbery Award winner The Invention of Hugo Cabret, a novel in words and pictures, which freatures a mystery inside of a 1931 Paris train station.
Kierstin read Hello Ruby: Adventures in Coding, which combines a great story about a girl with a big imagination along with basic concepts of coding.
Michael thinks you’ll enjoy My Life as A Fifth Grade Comedian.
Ava read Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, a classic story of a family dealing with racial prejudice in the South during the 1930’s.
Andy read the book The Recess Bully which is part of a new series called Superhero Harry.
James created his book trailer on Hatchet, the classic tale of survival in the wilderness.
Camden created his book trailer on Wonder, a great book that reminds you to choose kind.
Wilder read The Wizards of Once, a book that features the exciting adventure of a wizard prince and a warrior princess.
Emma knows you’ll enjoy learning about Greek mythology in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods.
Nathan read In the Heart of the Sea, the gripping true story of a whaling ship that was struck by a whale.
Andy’s book, Ready Player One takes place in the year 2045, where players can enter a utopian virtual reality world.
Willa read The Mark of Athena, where Percy Jackson and other Greek and Roman demigods have to team up in order to defeat giants.
Camp Half-Blood is the setting for Mona’s book, The Lightning Thief, the first of the Percy Jackson adventures.
Students can choose from thousands of Capstone titles and read them on any computer or on-the-go on any web-enabled device. Easy navigation on the ad-free site allows readers to search for books in English and Spanish by interest or reading level. See the link below that contains the welcome letter with the log in credentials needed. Have fun choosing & reading great books!
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ALCS Notable Children’s Books 2018 
The Association for Library Services for Children (a division of ALA) prepares this list each year to include notable books of “especially commendable quality, books that exhibit venturesome creativity, and books of fiction, information, poetry and pictures for all age levels (birth through age 14) that reflect and encourage children’s interests in exemplary ways.” It includes the current year’s Newbery, Caldecott, Belpré, Sibert, Geisel, and Batchelder Award and Honor books.
A Book and a Hug 
At this site, readers can discover books that match their “reading personality types” and hundreds of books listed in categories.
Scholastic for Parents
This great list of 100 books can be filtered by age group or by different categories.
Story Time From Space, a project from the nonprofit Global Space Education Foundation features astronauts reading children’s books from the International Space Station. A team of educators and scientists select books to be read that are related to STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) concepts. An organization called CASIS (Center for the Advancement of Science in Space) then helps to get the books launched into orbit. Here’s a video of astronaut Kate Rubins reading Rosie Revere, Engineer.