READING GIVES US SOMEPLACE TO GO when we have to stay where we are. --Mason Cooley

Completed Summer Book List (so far...)

Last summer, though I taught summer school and was gone a lot more, it seemed I had infinitely more time to read, whether it be with my kids in summer school, on the plane, in the car, in the airport, at home before we went to bed... This year though, I had a to do list a mile long (in a good way :) ) and only managed to squeeze reading in here and there. But, I have managed to read some good ones, mostly from the stack I pulled of popular ones from my classroom library that I had yet to read.

1. The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez by Alan Lawrence Sitomer
2. Dear Zoe by Philip Beard
3. All-Bright Court by Connie Porter
4. Petty Crimes by Gary Soto
5. Black and White by Paul Volponi
6. Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
7. Always Running: Gang Days in LA by Luis J. Rodriguez
8. Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
9. Chanda's Secrets by Allan Stratton
10. Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
11. Dark by Kenji Jasper
12. Invisible by Pete Hautman
13. Played by Dana Davidson
14. Fallen by Paul Langan
15. The Dream Where Losers Go by Beth Goobie
16. The Pledge by Chandra Sparks Taylor
17. Freak The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick