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Summer 2010

• Friends Over Books Student Picks:
• Africa Themed Books at the Swans Island Library:
  
  • Mogo the Third Warthog by Donna Jo Napoli
       For Grades 4-5
    The White Giraffe by Lauren St. John
       For Grades 4-5
    Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna by Joseph Lekuton
       For Grades 6-7
    Our Secret, Siri Aang by Christina Kessler
       For Grades 6-7
    The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
       For Grades 8-9
• Science Themed Books at the Swans Island Library:
  • The Secret Science Alliance by Eleanor Davis
  •    For Grades 5-7
  • The Evolution of Calpurnia Kate by Jacqueline Kelly
  •    For Grades 5-7
  • The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
  •    For Grades 8-9
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• Fantasy Themed Books at the Swans Island Library:
  • Savvy by Ingride Law
  •    For Grades 4-5
  • When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
  •    For Grades 6-7
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
  •    For Grades 6-7
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaimanch
  •    For Grades 6-7
  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  •    For Grades 8-9
  • The Midnight Charter by David Whitley
  •    For Grades 8-9
    
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• Summer Reading at the Southwest Harbor Library:
  • Savvy by Ingrid Law
  •    For Grades 4-5
  • Lion Boy by Zizou Corder
  •    For Grades 4-5
  • When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
  •    For Grades 6-7
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
  •    For Grades 6-7
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaimanch
  •    For Grades 6-7
  • The Midnight Charter by David Whitley
  •    For Grades 8-9

Summer 2009

• Young Readers (ages 7-9):
  • The Blessings of the Beasts by Ethel Pochoki
  • Goin' Someplace Special by Patricia C. Mckissak
  • Remember: A Journey To School Integration by Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison
• Middle Readers (ages 10-12):
  • Forty Acres And Maybe a Mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet
  • Francie by Karen English
• Older Readers (ages 13-14):
  • The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
  • Scat by Carl Hiassen
  • The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford

Summer 2008

• General Books:
  • Early Readers: Collector of Memories by Quint Bucholz
  • Middle Readers: The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Older Readers: Secrets of Cirque Medrano by Elaine Scott
• Middle East:
  • Early Readers: Four Feet, Two Sandals by Karen Lynn Williams & Khadra Mohammed
  • Middle Readers and Older Readers: Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples
  • Older Readers: A Bottle in the Gaza Sea by Valerie Zenatti
  • Class Read for Middle and/or Older Readers: 19 Varieties of Gazelle by Naomi Shihab Nye
• Native American (to go along with field trip to the Abbe Museum):
  • Early Readers: One Small Blue Bead by Byrd Baylor
  • Middle Readers: Children of the Longhouse by Joseph Bruchae
  • Older Readers: Bearwalker by Joseph Bruchae