Links for Kids


SALEM STATE COLLEGE
MASSACHUSETTS CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD NOMINEES
2007-2008

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Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
Shark Life: True Stories by Peter Benchley
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale by Jeanne Birdsall
The World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney
The Last Holiday Concert by Andrew Clements
Sing a Song of Tuna Fish by Esme Raji Codell
The Legend of Spud Murphy by Eoin Colfer
The Big House by Carolyn Coman
Lionboy by Zizou Corder
The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau
Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery by John Feinstein
A Writing Kind of Day: Poems by Ralph J. Fletcher
Eager by Helen Fox
Ghosthunters and the Totally Moldy Baroness! by Cornelia Funke
The Liberation of Gabriel King by K.L. Going
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Ida B..and Her Plans to Maximize Fun by Katherine Hannigan
Blow Out the Moon by  Libby Kaponen
Leon and the Champion Chip by Allan Kurzweil
Worth by A. LaFaye
A Dog's Life  by Ann M. Martin
Stink and the Incredible Super-Galactic Jawbreaker by Megan McDonald
Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan





 

 

BARNES & NOBLE SUMMER READING PROGRAM

Did you know that you could earn free books from Barnes & Noble this summer?  The bookstore has teamed up with Mary Pope Osborne to offer The Magic Tree House.  Stop by a B&N store to pick up a reading log, read eight books and you can earn a free book!  And make sure you keep track of how much time you spend reading those books, so you can "build your band" as part of the 2007 summer reading program Catch the Beat at Your Library!

SUMMER READING BOOKS

North Reading Middle School

6th Grade:
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

7th Grade:
Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements

8th Grade:
    Pick one
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel