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