New Books!

Hello!
I just came back from a week out west visiting national parks (promise me you will do this when you grow up!), and now I'm getting ready for school.  Today I am surrounded by new books that I am getting ready for the library.  It can be difficult to put the book titles in the computer without stopping to read them all!  This week, I know I will stop and look at some, and as I do, I'll post the reviews on my Good Reads account (see the link to this on the right column).  Some of our new books look good to me, including Junonia (a new chapter book by Kevin Henkes), Who Was Dr. Seuss (the newest BIG head biography), Monkey (a trickster tale by Gerald McDermott), The Lemonade Crime (sequel to the Lemonade War), The Magic Tree House book of Pirates, and lots of new books in the Daisy Meadows' Rainbow Magic series.  I am sitting with PILES of books today, and looking forward to getting them ready for kids to read next week.  I also have a few dollars to buy some new things for the library--what would you like to see in the library when you come back to school?

Reading in other towns

This week I'm hanging out with my nieces Meredith and Melanie while their mom works.  (In fact, today we are going to Plympton to set up the library for September!)  I've been asking them about what they are reading for their summer reading programs.  They live in Lexington and they don't have any required books for reading in the summer--they can read anything they want!  Meredith is going into 7th grade and Melanie is going into 4th grade.  Melanie is a strict Diary of a Wimpy Kid person and is trying to read all of them.  Melanie also loves Geronimo Stilton.  She'd fit right in at our school!  Meredith read The Giver by Lois Lowry and recommends it highly.  She also read Sent, the sequel to Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix--books lots of our fifth graders liked a lot.  Yesterday we went to a huge bookstore in Boston that is going out of business and bought some new books for Plympton.  I was surprised to see that there were now 10 books in Ann Martin's Main Street series and got some more of those, some easy readers, and some nonfiction books (Rattlesnakes!).  I've been reading a lot too.  Right now I'm reading Double Dutch by Sharon Draper.  It is about kids in a middle school in Ohio who compete in jump rope competitions.  If you want to see all the books I've read this summer, check out my Good Reads account