It is no lie that I love to read, in fact, as my students know it is one of my biggest ultimate pleasures. So it was no surprise to them when I showed them a picture of the reading pile next to my bed waiting for me; it's huge to say the least and it keeps growing.
So with no fanfare, here are the books I will be relaxing with this summer:
- The Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow
- Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
- The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
- I'm Nothing Special by Geoff Herbach
- I'm With Stupid by Geoff Herbach
- Eragon by Christopher Paolini
- Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
- The Water Castle by Megan Frazer Blakemore
- Radio Road by Jake Henderson
- I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
- The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde (His first children's book - his adult books are some of my favorites!)
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
- As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth by Lynne Rae Perkins
- The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
- Savvy by Ingrid Law
- The Encyclopedia of Me by Karen Rivers
- I, Emma Freke by Elizabeth Atkinson
- Den Iranske Gartner by Bjarne Reuter (Adult book)
- I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
- The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau
- Marco Effekten by Jussi Adler-Olsen (Adult book)
- Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness (Adult book)
- Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
- Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
- City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
- Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
- The entire Missing Series by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Lincoln's Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin
- Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
- Jefferson's Sons by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch
- The Pull of gravity by Gae Polisner
- Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
- The Truth about Truman School Dori Hillerstad Butler
- Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
- Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai
- Plunked by Michael Northrop
- Human.4 by Mike A. Lancaster
- Twerp by Mark Goldblatt
- A billion picture books at least with Theadora
So there you have it, a little slice of what I will be doing this summer. And this list will only grow, I still have to go through my classroom library and see what gems I still need to read there.