Books from the 2010 Summer Reading Explore NY List
If you click on YES on the form and return this list to us, we will order the books below for you as a group at a cost of $291.34 plus $30 processing (deduct a total of $325 from your $1,000 allotment).
The titles below are featured on the Summer Reading page of the NY State Library web site. I’ve pulled out all of the titles that meet our ordering guidelines. A complete description of the titles (and an overview of how they were selected, and by whom) is given on the web site (www.nysl.nysed.gov/libdev/summer/resource.htm)
Early Childhood and Beginning School Age
Gonzalez, Lucia Storyteller’s Candle. San Francisco: Children’s Book Press, 2008
ISBN 9780892392223
High, Linda Oatman Tenth Avenue Cowboy Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2008
ISBN 9780802853301
Rubbino, Salvatore A Walk in New York Candlewick: 2009
ISBN: 978-07638559
Talbot, Hudson River of Dreams: The Story of the Hudson River Putnam Juvenile, 2009
ISBN :
Vila, Laura Building Manhattan Viking Juvenile, Penguin Group, 2008
ISBN: 978-0670062843
Elementary
Fritz, Jean Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold Paw Prints, 2008 ISBN: 9781435286047
Kamma, Anne and Pamela Johnson If you Lived When Women Won Their Rights Scholastic, 2008 ISBN: 9780439748698
Kerley, Barbara What to Do About Alice? Scholastic, 2008 ISBN: 9780439922319
Mastro, Betsy The New Americans: Colonial Times, 1620-1689 Paw Prints, 2008
ISBN: 9781435274471
Park, Linda Sue Keeping Score Clarion Books, 2008 ISBN: 9780618927999
Schulman, Janet Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City Knopf, 2008
ISBN: 9780375845581
Valentine, Sally Theft at the George Eastman House: A New York State Adventure North Country Books, 2009 ISBN: 978-1595310293
Tween
Anderson, Laurie Halse Chains Simon & Schuster, 2008 ISBN: 978141690581
Avi The Seer of Shadows Harper Collins, 2008 ISBN: 9780060000172
Grab, Daphne Alive and Well in Prague, NY Laura Geringer Books, 2008
ISBN: 9780061256707
Greenberg, David A Tugging String Dutton Children’s Books, 2008
ISBN: 9780525479673
Hesse, Karen The Brooklyn Bridge Feiwel and Friends, 2008 ISBN 0312378866
Klein, Frederick C. For the Love of the Yankees: An A to Z Primer for Yankees Fans of All Ages Triumph Books, 2008 ISBN: 9781572437746
Mebus, Scott Gods of Manhattan Dutton Juvenile, 2008 ISBN: 9780525479550
Messner, Kate Champlain and the Silent One North Country Books, 2008
ISBN: 9781595310507
Stead, Rebecca When You Reach Me Wendy Lamb Books, 2009 ISBN: 9780385737425
Woodson, Jacqueline If You Come Softly G.P. Putnam, 2010 ISBN 9780142415221
Teen and Up
Bauer, Joan Peeled Putnam, 2008 ISBN: 9780399234750
Duble, Kathleen Benner Quest Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2008 ISBN: 9781416933861
Thompson, Don and Carol Thompson Seeking the Northwest Passage Purple Mountain Press, 2008 ISBN: 9781930098909
Julie Wever