The Summer Reading List 2010 was created by Sara Nasir, Daniel Effiong, Uriah Khambatta, Chaeli Brown and Mrs. Kieran. We hope that you have time to enjoy some of these books this summer. Happy Summer Reading to everyone!

Middle School Reading

Readers Advisory Tools:

Readers Advisory tools are those resources that might just help you find your next favorite book. There are some free web resources that will give you basic reading lists based on the title or author of a book. Other resources allow you to search by topics and genres. Here are a few resources:

What Should I Read Next
Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our database of real readers' favourite books (over 65,000 and growing) to suggest what you could read next. You can also register and build your own favourites list that helps give you a better match.

NoveList
This is a database that we subscribe to through EBSCO which can be used to search by topic or genre as well as author and title. This resource gives the user more options to narrow down results based on specific characteristics they like about a particlar book.
Book Awards:

Looking at lists of books that have won awards is one way to find books to read. Here is a list of some of the awards around the world that focus on Young Adult books or those books that are appropriate for young adults.


The John Newberry Medal
The Newberry Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newberry. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. 

William C. Morris YA Debut Award 
The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, first awarded in 2009, honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature.

The Alex Awards
Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year's publishing. The Alex Awards were first given annually beginning in 1998 and became an official ALA award in 2002.

Best Books for Young Adults
The Best Books for Young Adults committee each year selects and annotates a list of significant adult and young adult books, as well as chooses a list of top ten titles from the full list. It is a general list of fiction and nonfiction titles selected for their proven or potential appeal to the personal reading tastes of the young adult.

The Man Booker Prizes
The prize, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2008, aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. The Man Booker judges are selected from the country's finest critics, writers and academics to maintain the consistent excellence of the prize.  The winner of the Man Booker Prize receives £50,000 and both the winner and the shortlisted authors are guaranteed a worldwide readership plus a dramatic increase in book sales.

The Michael L. Printz Award
The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association.

The Costa Book Award
The Costa Book Awards is one of the most prestigious and popular literary prizes in the UK and recognises some of the most enjoyable books of the year by writers based in the UK and Ireland. The Costa Book Awards started life in 1971 as the Whitbread Literary Awards. From 1985 they were known as the Whitbread Book Awards until 2006, when Costa Coffee took over ownership - the year that both Costa and the Book Awards celebrated their 30 th anniversary. Awards are given across five categories: First Novel; Biography; Novel; Poetry and Children's. The Costa Book of the year is then chosen from the shortlist of category winners.