Summer Fun Reading List 2009
Lesson plans for many K-12 titles from our Summer Fun Reading list are available on our Learning Through Listening website for educators' use for fall lesson preparation. Titles with associated lesson plans are noted with (LTL lesson plan) following the title. Click on the (LTL lesson plan) link to access the lesson plans on the Learning Through Listening site, or search for lesson plans by subject area, grade level, topic or keyword.
Sports and Health
YOUNGER READERS
JM196 All-Star fever: a Peach Street Mudders story by Matt Christopher
*HZ401 Ancient Greece and the Olympics: a nonfiction companion to Hour of the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne (LTL lesson plan)
*HQ043 The bat boy & his violin by Gavin Curtis (LTL lesson plan)
*HZ467 Hey batta batta swing!: the wild old days of baseball by Sally Cook (LTL lesson plan)
HF660 Hour of the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne (LTL lesson plan)
HW320 Jesse Owens: fastest man alive by Carole Boston Weatherford (LTL lesson plan)
*JB321 Junie B., first grader: toothless wonder by Barbara Park (LTL lesson plan)
HW319 The longest season: the story of the Orioles' 1988 losing streak by Cal Ripkin
*JB979 The magic hockey stick by Peter Maloney (LTL lesson plan)
*JN137 Michael's golden rules by Deloris Jordan (LTL
lesson plan)
PRE-TEENS
JH801 Baseball crazy: ten short stories that cover all the bases
JJ393 Challenge at second base by Matt Christopher
HZ167 Dairy queen: a novel by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
HX627 Free baseball by Sue Corbett (LTL lesson plan)
JJ163 Get balanced: the natural way to better health with superfoods by Jan Lovejoy
JH484 Going for the record by Julie A. Swanson
JK701 Grind by Eric Walters
JM219 The hunger games by Suzanne Collins
JD749 Jim Thorpe: original All-American by Joseph Bruchac
HP574 My secret life as a ping-pong wizard by Henry Winkler
HX288 Night hoops by Carl Deuker
*JA995 Profiles in sports courage by Ken Rappoport (LTL lesson plan)
JB338 Two-minute drill: a comeback kids novel by Mike Lupica
TEENS AND ADULTS
HY969 The blind side: evolution of a game by Michael Lewis
HY970 Eagle blue: a team, a tribe, and a high school basketball season in Arctic Alaska by Michael D'Orso
HN750 I am third: the inspiration for Brian's song by Gale Sayers
HK931 Luckiest man: the life and death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig
HK945 The old ball game: how John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants created modern baseball by Frank Deford
HY246 Scoring from second: writers on baseball
JH117 Spark: the revolutionary new science of exercise and the brain by John J. Ratey
HY005 Summer of '49 by David Halberstam
HZ121 Triumph: the untold story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics by
Jeremy
Schaap
*HV341 You, the owner's manual: an insider's guide to the body that will make you healthier and younger by Michael F. Roizen (LTL lesson plan)
GY020 Zane Grey on fishing by Zane Grey
Awards and Honors Winners
YOUNGER READERS
HD697 Coming on home soon by Jacqueline Woodson (2005 Caldecott Medal Honor Book) (LTL lesson plan)
HM931 The hello, goodbye window by Norton Juster (2006 Caldecott Medal Winner) (LTL lesson plan)
*JC374 Henry's freedom box by Ellen Levine (2008 Caldecott Medal Honor Book) (LTL lesson plan)
*HT145 Olivia forms a band by Ian Falconer (2005-2006 NAPPA Gold Medal Award Winner; 2006 Land of Enchantment Book Award Nominee) (LTL lesson plan)
*JC224 Knuffle Bunny too: a case of mistaken identity by Mo Willems (2008 Caldecott Medal Honor Book) (LTL lesson plan)
*HV588 Moses when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford (2007 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner) (LTL lesson plan)
JA045 Say what? by Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008 Sunshine State Award Nominee) (LTL lesson plan)
JN795 The blacker the berry by Joyce Carol Thomas (2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner)
JN485 We are the ship: the story of Negro League baseball by Kadir Nelson (2009 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
JH808 What to do about Alice?: how Alice Roosevelt broke the rules, charmed
the world, and drove her father Teddy crazy! By Barbara Kerley (2009 Robert
F. Sibert Informational Book Award Honor Book)
PRE - TEENS
JK267 American born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (2006 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist)
*HV281 The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation. Volume 1, The pox party taken from accounts by his own hand and other sundry sources by M. T. Anderson (2006 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Winner; 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book) (LTL lesson plan)
JK377 The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks a novel by E. Lockhart (2008 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist; 2009 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book)
*HZ368 Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson (2008 Newbery Medal Honor Book) (LTL lesson plan)
*HT331 Firegirl by Tony Abbott (2008 Blubonnet Award Nominee) (LTL lesson plan)
*JC404 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: voices from a medieval village by Laura Amy Schlitz (2008 Newbery Medal Winner) (LTL lesson plan)
JM223 The graveyard book by Neil Gaiman (2009 Newbery Medal Winner)
*HY032 The invention of Hugo Cabret: a novel in words and pictures by Brian Selznick (2008 Caldecott Medal Winner) (LTL lesson plan)
*HX284 One whole and perfect day by Judith Clarke (2008 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book) (LTL lesson plan)
*HY503 Rules by Cynthia Lord (2007 Schneider Family Award Winner - Middle School; 2007 Newbery Medal Honor Book) (LTL lesson plan)
JK269 Savvy by Ingrid Law (2009 Newbery Medal Honor Book)
*JC223 The wall: growing up behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis (2008 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Winner) (LTL lesson plan)
JC407 The white darkness: a novel by Geraldine McCaughrean (2008 Michael
L. Printz Award Winner)
TEENS AND ADULTS
HY967 The book of lost things by John Connolly (2007 Alex Award Winner)
JB010 Brother, I'm dying by Edwidge Danticat (2007 National Book Critics Circle Award For Autobiography; 2008 Christopher Award Winner)
JJ741 Children's literature: a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter by Seth Lerer (2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism)
HX185 FDR by Jean Edward Smith (2008 Francis Parkman Prize Winner)
JH506 The gathering by Anne Enright (2007 Man Booker Prize)
JN686 Just after sunset : stories by Stephen King (2009 Alex Award Winner)
*HW580 A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier by Ishmael Beah (2008 Alex Award Winner; 2007 Quill Award Nominee for Biography/Memoir and for Debut Author; 2008 Christopher Award Winner) (LTL lesson plan)
HQ444 Midnight at the Dragon Café by Judy Fong Bates (2006 Alex Award Winner)
*HS766 The road by Cormac McCarthy (2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction ; 2007 Quill Award Winner for General Fiction) (LTL lesson plan)
JF446 Slavery by another name: the re-enslavement of Black people in America from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner for General Nonfiction)
JJ333 The story of Edgar Sawtelle: a novel by David Wroblewski (2008 Indie Choice Award for a Debut Author)
JH169 The plague of doves by Louise Erdrich (2009 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Fiction)
JJ551 This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust (2009 Bancroft Prize Winner; 2009 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for History; 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for General Nonfiction)
JC010 Tree of smoke by Denis Johnson (2008 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for
Fiction)
Challenges in Life and on the Road
YOUNGER READERS
*JB262 Ballerina dreams: a true story by Lauren Thompson (LTL lesson plan)
*HV436 The deaf musicians by Pete Seeger (LTL lesson plan)
*JA261 Ginger and Petunia by Patricia Polacco (LTL lesson plan)
JJ638 Junie B., first grader: aloha-ha-ha ! by Barbara Park
*HD696 Kitten's first full moon by Kevin Henkes (LTL lesson plan)
*HP914 A mother's journey by Sandra Markle (LTL lesson plan)
*HW192 Probuditi! by Chris Van Allsburg (LTL lesson plan)
JN331 Sybil Ludington's midnight ride by Marsha Amstel
*HX237 The three pigs by David Wiesner (LTL lesson plan)
*HQ052 Wemberly worried by Kevin Henkes (LTL
lesson plan)
PRE-TEENS
*JB355 The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie (LTL lesson plan)
JJ150 Beyond the Deepwoods by Paul Stewart
JD493 Hannah by Gloria Whelan
JC408 Hurt go happy by Ginny Rorby
JK234 I am David by Anne Holm
*JA241 Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (LTL lesson plan)
*JA107 Mickey and me by Dan Gutman (LTL lesson plan)
JM499 Nation by Terry Pratchett
JC772 Reaching for sun by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer (LTL lesson plan)
JN410 Red midnight by Ben Mikaelsen
JK380 Shark girl by Kelly L. Bingham
*HZ366 The sisters Grimm. Book One: the fairy-tale detectives by Michael Buckley (LTL lesson plan)
JD755 So B. It: a novel by Sarah Weeks
JJ528 Tunnels by Roderick Gordon
TEENS AND ADULTS
JF311 ADHD and me: what I learned from lighting fires at the dinner table by Blake E. S. Taylor
*JC644 At first sight by Nicholas Sparks (LTL lesson plan)
JD697 Blindsided: lifting a life above illness : a reluctant memoir by Richard M. Cohen
JG294 The Endurance: Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition by Caroline Alexander
HK597 In this sign by Joanne Greenberg
JA917 Kingdom of ten thousand things: an impossible journey from Kabul to Chiapas by Gary Geddes
HA467 The last crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe
JB756 Look me in the eye: my life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison
HD110 The mapmaker's wife: a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker
JH229 The places in between by Rory Stewart
JA341 River of doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey by Candice Millard
HQ920 A sense of the world: how a blind man became history's greatest traveler by Jason Roberts
JB021 The unheard: a memoir of deafness and Africa by Josh Swiller
STUDY SKILLS
HY467 101 ways to adjust to high school
JH740 Barron's SAT: strategies for students with learning disabilities by Toni R. Welkes
HH349 College bound: a guide for students with visual impairments by Ellen
Trief
JD025 The research process: books and beyond by Myrtle S. Bolner
HX046 Self-advocacy skills for students with learning disabilities: making it happen in college and beyond by Henry B. Reiff
JH793 Simon's saga for the SAT by Philip Geer
HZ360 Study and critical thinking skills in college by Kathleen T. McWhorter
JB116 Survival guide for college students with ADHD or LD by Kathleen G. Nadeau
HT451 The survival guide for kids with LD* *learning differences by Gary
L. Fisher
