summer reading 2016 - Converse Free Library

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Summer Reading
2015-16 awards | kids’ choices | 2016-17 Isinglass & Great Stone Face nominees
Mr. Cooke’s books | all in this issue!
Summer Reading List is published annually by Library Services of Lyme School.
June 2016
Questions? Suggestions? [email protected]
An Annual Newsletter
Isinglass Award
NH middle grades kids’
choice:
The War That Saved My Life
by K. Bradley
Summer 2016
National Book Award
Challenger Deep by
Neal Shusterman,
64 sixth, seventh, and eighth graders graciously provided
their picks for best book read this school year.
8th
the boy in the striped pajamas
the ultimate hitchhikers guide to the galaxy (adult)
Read Free or Die!
D. C. Fisher Award
VT 4-8 choice award:
Mythopoeic Award for
Children’s Literature
YALSA Nonfiction
award :
kids’ fantasy award
Kids’
Choices
is it night or day?
speak
fault in our stars
assassin’s blade
the kill artists (adult)
behind the secret
window
the obsidian blade
shattered by dick
francis (adult)
raven’s gate
last dragon slayer
legend
Printz Award
Bone Gap
by Laura Ruby
El Deafo by Cece Bell
A Snicker of Magic
by Natalie Lloyd
Most Dangerous:
by Steve Sheinkin
7th
6th
cinder
if i stay (14+)
treaties, trenches, mud,
and blood
the here and now
just ella
carry on (13+)
my life next door (14+)
life of pi (adult)
swindle
the rule of thre3
graceling (13+)
fangirl (14+)
fallout
countdown
born to run by C. McDougall (adult)
darkest path
ungifted
brown girl dreaming
the belgariad: pawn of prophecy (adult)
paper towns (13+)
don’t stay up late
pegasus: the flame of olympus
the 7th most important thing
echo
stella by starlight
the glass sentence
the dirt diary
the candymakers
spaced out
watership down
walk two moons
the screaming staircase
gone
lord of the flies
eragon
ungifted
miss peregrin’s home for peculiar children
the finest hours
alex rider series
the princess & the foal
the mighty miss malone
top dog
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“Equal parts
edge-of-yourseat suspense
and heartfelt
coming-of-age”
- Kirkus
2016
2016
Winner
Winner
Great Stone Face
Award 2015
NH Kids choice award GRADES 4,5,& 6. Read as many
as you can from this list and VOTE , along with
hundreds of other NH kids, for your favorite in April!
o Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova
more Great Stone Face...
o Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart
o Teddy Mars by Molly Burnham
o When Mischief Came to Town
by Katrina Nannestad
o The Big Dark by R
Philbrick
Isinglass Nominees
o The Blackthorn Key by
Kevin Sands
The Isinglass Teen Read Award is a NH kids’ choice
award for 7 & 8th graders. Read as many as you can &
vote with your friends in April for the state winner!
READ ON!
o Castle Hangnail by
Ursula Vernon
o The Double Cross by
Jackson Pearce
o Escape From Baxter’s
Barn by Rebecca Bond
o The Fog Diver by Joel Ross
Speak, Laurie Halse
Anderson
The Thing About
Jellyfish, Ali Benjamin
The Leveller, Julia
Durango
o Lost in the Sun by Lisa Graff
o A Night Divided by
Jennifer Nielsen
The Walk On, John
Feinstein
Roller Girl, Victoria Jamieson
o Nightbird by Alice
Hoffman
o Nooks & Crannies by
Jessica Lawson
o Pack of Dorks by Beth
Vrabel
o Pax by Sara
Pennypacker
o Pugs of the Frozen North by Philip Reeve
o Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
The Skeleton Tree, Ian Lawrence
Keepers of the
Labyrinth, Erin
Moulton
A Night Divided,
Jennifer Nielsen
The Seventh Most
Important Thing,
Shelley Pearsall
The Hired Girl, Laura
Amy Schlitz
o Seven Dead Pirates by Linda Bailey
The Rules of Survival, Nancy Werlin
o Soar by Joan Bauer
Everything, Everything, Nicola Yoon
Produced by Library Services | Lyme School
Mr. Cooke’s books:
6th
countdown
the forbidden stone, copernicus legacy, 1
the war that saved my life
hero on a bicycle
tombquest: book of the dead
stop the train!
fish in a tree
the screaming staircase
ghost knight
the fourteenth goldfish
stowaway by k. hesse
mastermind
whales on stilts
the sword of summer, magnus chase and the
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gods of asgard, book 1
boom!
blackthorn key
a single shard
7th
so, yesterday
red midnight
goodbye stranger
railhead
remnants: the mayflower project
zombie baseball beatdown
island of thieves
loot
heart of a samurai
reckless
8th
zen and the art of faking it
nazi hunters
salt to the sea
son of the mob
devils pass
supernaturalist
under the mountain’s shadow
illuminae
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Thanks to Judy Russell for the continuing very
positive collaboration between Converse Free
Library and The Lyme School.
Thanks to the students of Lyme School for
sharing their love of books - JC
Questions?
[email protected]