SUMMER READING 2009

Come to the expanded teen area of the library to find lots of summer reading choices -- we have the books from the New Canaan Public School lists, plus lots more. Here are some links to get you started:

SAXE MIDDLE SCHOOL

Incoming 7th Grade: Required List

Incoming 8th Grade: Book-Film Project

Incoming 7th & 8th Grades: Recommended Summer Reading List


NEW CANAAN HIGH SCHOOL (all grades):

Visit the NCHS Library website for a video message and an interactive list of summer reading choices. Multiple copies of these books are available at the New Canaan Library all summer. Click here to see what's available right now.

BEACH BAG CONTEST!

There's still time to enter the TeenReads Beach Bag Contest -- it's open until June 25th. The prize is a beach bag full of 12 great beach books plus lots of other summer goodies. Not hard to enter -- just write a paragraph about which of the 12 books you'd most like to read and why. The TeenReads site also has lots of great book reviews, author interviews, and the "ultimate teen reading list" with 300 titles.

You can read about the contest and enter it by clicking HERE.

New Vampire Series to Start Off the Summer

After you've read all four books in the Twilight series..... why not try The Morganville Vampires

by Rachel Caine

(New this week in the YA Paperback section of the New Canaan Library)

From back cover: "Welcome to Morganville, Texas. Don't stay out after dark. It's a small college town filled with quirky characters. But when the sun goes down, the bad comes out. Because in Morganville, there is an evil that lurks in the darkest shadows-one that will spill out into the bright of day.

Here are the six books in the series so far:

Book 1 Glass houses
Book 2 The dead girls' dance
Book 3 Midnight Alley
Book 4 Feast of fools
Book 5 Lord of Misrule
Book 6 Carpe Corpus
Book 7 Fade Out (coming 11/3/09)