Summer Reading 2008

Register for the Teen Summer Reading program Saturday, May 31 - Monday, June 30. For more information, ask at the Reference Desk or call 852-6661.

Starting Monday, June 2 check this blog for special summer recommended reading lists and opportunities to receive treats and prizes.

Happy Reading!

New in May

The Book of Jude: Kimberley Heuston: 217 pages
In 1989, when fifteen-year-old Jude's mother wins a Fulbright fellowship to study art in Czechoslovakia, the family postpones a planned move to Utah to join her, but the political situation and the move itself are too much for Jude, who is overwhelmed by a previously undiagnosed psychological disorder.

Wake: Lisa McMann: 210 pages
Ever since she was eight years old, high school student Janie Hannagan has been uncontrollably drawn into other people's dreams, but it is not until she befriends an elderly nursing home patient and becomes involved with an enigmatic fellow-student that she discovers her true power.

The Truth about Las Mariposas: Ofelia Dumas Lachtman: 171 pages
When sixteen-year-old Caro Torres goes to help her Tia Matilda at her bed-and-breakfast in Two Sands, California, she ends up also helping her aunt fend off the attempts of her ex-husband to buy the property and steal the treasures that are hidden there.

Primavera: Mary Jane Beaufrand: 260 pages
Growing up in Renaissance Italy, Flora sees her family's fortunes ebb, but encounters with the artist Botticelli and the guidance of her nurse teach her to look past the material world to the beauty already in her life.

Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Manga Edition: Adam Sexton: 185 pages
In this fast-paced manga edition, you're instantly caught up in the conflicts and passions--the murder of the king, supernatural visitations, deception, plots, poisoned wine, revenge--that make this one of Shakespeare's most beloved tragedies.

Mythbusters: Don't Try This at Home: Mary Packard: 144 pages
Based on the popular TV show, this book presents various urban myths and legends, describes how the "Mythbusters" set out to prove the myths, explains the results, and provides instructions for how to do similar "mythbusting" at home.

Once Upon a Time in the North: Philip Pullman: 95 pages
In a time before Lyra Silvertongue was born, the tough American balloonist Lee Scoresby and the great armoured bear Iorek Byrnison meet when Lee and his hare daemon Hester crash-land their trading balloon onto a port in the far Arctic North and find themselves right in the middle of a political powder keg.