For the first Booklist of the Summer, we are featuring the Dig Into Reading! Summer Readings Lists compiled for the Connecticut Department of Education by Linda Williams, Connecticut State Library. These books were chosen because one or more National Library or Educational organization found them exemplary. For more details on how these books were chosen or to view the complete list, follow these links:
Below are the titles available at the Booth & Dimock Memorial Library. Borrow one today!
Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
The Compound by S.A. Bodeen
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Holes by Louis Sachar
Downsiders by Neal Shusterman
Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson
Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners From 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert by Marc Aronson
Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Faces from the Past: Forgotten People of North America by James M. Dean
Alien Deep: Revealing the Mysterious Living World at the Bottom of the Ocean by Bradley Hague
Mysterious Bones: The Story of Kennewick Man by Katherine Kirkpatrick
Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl by Albert Marrin
Secret Subway: The Fascinating Tale of an Amazing Feet of Engineering by Martin Sandler
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine by Sally M. Walker
Everneath by Brodi Ashton
Tales of the Madman Underground by John Barnes
The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer by Gary Paulsen
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Ludie's Life by Cynthia Rylant
Corpses, Coffins and Crypts: A History of Burial by Penny Colman
Shadow Divers: The True Adventures of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve one of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
