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Summer Reading Lists 2008  
Annotated Summer Reading Grade 10 Summer Reading Assignment
Annotated Summer Reading Grade 11 Summer Reading Assignment Rubric
Annotated Summer Reading Grade 12 Lexile Rankings Chart
Honors English Summer Reading Lists  

 

 

 

Check out the following sites for book suggestions and reviews:

Bubba's Book Club Recommended reading by Neil Peart, Canadian drummer of the band Rush.
Guys Read Helps boys find books they would like to read.
If You Like... Suggestions for further reading if you liked ____________. (You fill in the blank!)
LibraryThing LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.
New York Times Books Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction, and Children's Bestsellers and more.
Nobel Laurate Search Find out facts about all Nobel Prize laureates through press releases, biographies, Nobel lectures, interviews, and articles.
Novelist

(Access PA Power Library)

Besides locating books to read, users can learn more about books and authors through Author Read-alikes, Feature Articles, Book Discussion Guides, and BookTalks.
National Public Radio Books Features NPR's guide to the best books of the season.
Oprah's Books Oprah's selection of great reads from contemporary fiction to literary classics.
The Pulitzer Prize Database A database of winners and nominated finalists for each prize category.
Reading Rants! Out of the ordinary teen booklists!
Science Fiction and Fantasy Research database An online index to over 60,000 historical and critical items about science fiction, fantasy and horror.
TeensPoint Reviews by teens, including book, movie, music and web reviews.
Washington Post Book World The Sunday book review of the national daily newspaper features criticism, columns and an online book club.
We the People Bookshelf: Summertime Favorites List of classic books for young people from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
YALSA Booklists and Book Awards Book lists from the American Library Association including Best Books for Young Adults, Outstanding Books for the College Bound, Teen's Top Ten and more.

Literary Criticism

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Epics (pdf) Nonfiction Classics (pdf)    

Spring Challenge Reading Competition

Reading Competition List 2009 Reading Competition Rules/Procedures

History Topics

World History Topics

Twentieth Century Topics

Historical Fiction

Looking Back at the Twentieth Century: YA Historical Fiction for Students
Historical Fiction List with Lexile Reading Levels
 
 

Banned Books

Banned Books Online Books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts.
The Most Frequently Banned Books in the 1990s Shows the fifty books that were most frequently challenged in schools and public libraries in the United States between 1990 and 1992.

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