Parents,

    Looking for something to entertain your children this summer?  Why not make visiting the Public Library a weekly occurrence?  The Burges Library, located next to the Police Station at 9600 Dyer, is sponsoring a summer reading program for students.  Registration for the program begins May 26.  For more information please feel free to call the library at 759-2400.  Don't have a library card?  You can get your FREE Library Card by taking one of your utility bills to the reference desk and signing up.
    Listed below are some titles and authors to help get you and your kiddos started.  Have a great summer and lots of happy reading!
    Don't forget to visit the Fannin Library Web Site.

                                                                        M. K. Olzawski
                                                                        Fannin Librarian

The following book titles have been suggested by Judy Freeman, a children's literature consultant, workshop presenter and author of More Book Kids Will Sit Still For.

K-3 Titles

Fiction

Chato and the Party Animals by Gary Soto
Click, Clack, Moo:  Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin
Dear Whiskers by Ann W. Nagda
Eight Animals on the Town by Susan M. Elya
The Fledgling by Robert J. Blake
Gloria's Way by Ann Cameron
The Grannyman by Judith B. Schacher
The Honest-to-Goodness Truth by Patricia Mckissack
It's My Birthday, Too by Lynne Jonell
Martha Speaks by Susan Meddaugh
Mouse TV by Matt Novak
The Raft by Jim LaMarche
Roberto the Insect Architect by Nina Laden
The Saturday Kid by Edward Sorrel and Cheryl Carlesimo
Three More Stories You Can Read to Your Dog by Sara Swan Miller
Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathman
Saving Sweetness by Diane Stanley

Nonfiction

Aesop's Fables by Jerry Pinkney
America's Champion Swimmer:  Gertrude Ederle by David A. Adler
Hottest Coldest Highest Deepest by Steve Jenkins
No Dinner!  The Story of the Old Woman and the Pumpkin by Jessica Souhami
There's a Zoo in Room 22 by Judy Sierra
 
 

4 - 8 Titles

Fiction

Adaline Falling Star by Mary Pope Osborne
The Ashwater Experiment by Amy Koss
The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen by Dylan Sheldon
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
The Graduation of Jake Moon by Barbara Park
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
I Was a Rat! by Philip Pullman
Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff
Sacajawea by Joseph Bruchac
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Nonfiction

Angels Ride Bikes and Other Fall Poems by Francisco X. Alarcon
The Girl who Spun Gold by Virginia Hamilton
Satchel Paige by Lisa Cline-Ransome
Spirit of Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong


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