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COOL LINKS FOR TEENS

Teens' Top Ten
: Where teens choose the winners. Read from this list and vote for your favorite books during Teen Read Week!

Best Books for Young Adults (BBYA): Check out the 2006 nominees!  Read from this list, write a review and earn Flint Bucks this summer


Do Something
: Ways for teens to get involved in the world

Internet Public Library Teenspace: Homework help, life issues, entertainment, sports and more

Teen Advice Online: A place to go for advice about pretty much anything

Reading Rants: Out of the ordinary booklists for teens

No Flying, No Tights: Graphic novel and manga reviews

Teen Ink: Written for teens by teens


SUMMER READING BOOKS
2011

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
Behind You by Jacqueline Woodson
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

                      

North Reading High School

Students are required to read two of the four books listed for their grade.

Grade 9
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
Soldier X by Don Wulffson
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Grade 10
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Aby Betty Smith
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Eleven Seconds by Travis Roy
     

Grade 11
Maus I & II: A Survivor's Tale (My Father Bleeds History/And Here My Troubles Began) by Art Spiegelman
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
     
Grade 12
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Devil in White City by Erik Larson
    

Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition with Mr. Putnam*

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

Advanced Placement English Language and Compostition with Mrs. Dabrieo*

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynee Truss

* These titles are to be read in addition to the two choices from the summer reading list.



 

MORE TEEN PICS!

YAB Game Night on October 24 - it was a blast!

DDR at the library! 



Some teens came to the "Edible Bug" program at the beginning of the summer...

Volunteers at the Summer Reading Kick-off event.

TEEN EVENT PICTURES

We had a great turnout at our Teen Karaoke event on August 9.  Check out the fun pictures!