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*[[Librarians' Choice: 100 Super Summer Reads for Teens]]: add your recommendations here for great summer reads for teens.  After completing a school year of assignments and required reading, these titles are meant to offer some lighter leisure reading.   
 
*[[Librarians' Choice: 100 Super Summer Reads for Teens]]: add your recommendations here for great summer reads for teens.  After completing a school year of assignments and required reading, these titles are meant to offer some lighter leisure reading.   
  
*[http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/teenstopten.cfm 2009 Teens' Top Teen Nominations]: encourage teens to read these nominations over the summer so they can vote online for their favorites in Aug. and Sept.  Winners will be announced during [[Teen Read Week]] (the third week of every October).  The ten titles with the most votes become YALSA's official 2009 Teens' Top Ten list.  Share your [[Ideas for Using the Teens' Top Ten]] on this wiki.
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*[http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/teenstopten.cfm 2010 Teens' Top Teen Nominations]: encourage teens to read these nominations over the summer so they can vote online for their favorites in Aug. and Sept.  Winners will be announced during [[Teen Read Week]] (the third week of every October).  The ten titles with the most votes become YALSA's official 2010 Teens' Top Ten list.  Share your [[Ideas for Using the Teens' Top Ten]] on this wiki.
  
 
*2009 summer reading: for resources to go along with the 'express yourself' theme, consider using the 2010 Popular Paperback nominees for the list called [http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/popularpaperback/nominations.cfm#change "Change Your World."]  You might also consider YALSA's [http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/Teen_Tech_Guides Teen Tech Guides] or [http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/General_resources_for_Teen_Tech_Week#Tech_reads_for_teens Tech Reads for Teens] list of recommended reading.
 
*2009 summer reading: for resources to go along with the 'express yourself' theme, consider using the 2010 Popular Paperback nominees for the list called [http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/popularpaperback/nominations.cfm#change "Change Your World."]  You might also consider YALSA's [http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/Teen_Tech_Guides Teen Tech Guides] or [http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/General_resources_for_Teen_Tech_Week#Tech_reads_for_teens Tech Reads for Teens] list of recommended reading.

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Numerous studies have shown that summer reading programs help ensure that children and teens retain critical reading and learning skills they acquired during the school year.

YALSA's Recommended Summer Reading

Reading Lists on the Web

Teenreads.com Ultimate Reading List

2009 Summer Library Program Reading Lists for Kids and Teens [1] The Collaborative Summer Library Program's 2009 summer reading program themes are Be Creative @ Your Library (for children) and Express Yourself @ Your Library (for teens). Download the thematic 17-page annotated summer reading lists as a pdf file. The lists come from Sally Snyder, Coordinator of Children and Young Adult Library Services at the Nebraska Library Commission. They include fiction and nonfiction for young children through older teens.

2009 Middle School Summer Reading List [2] This recommended reading list, from the Parkway School District in Chesterfield, Missouri, includes cover art, a brief summary, the copyright date and the genre of books for students entering grade 6-9. This reading list includes fiction and some nonfiction, both in a variety of genres.

2009 Summer Reading List for Students Entering Grades 9-12 [ This recommended reading list of fiction and nonfiction is from the Parkway School District in Chesterfield, Missouri. It includes cover art, a brief summary, the copyright date and the genre of recommended books for teens entering grade 9-12.

Summer Reading List for Grades 6-12 [3] This 21-page summer reading list is from Dana Hall School in Massachusetts. It includes required and recommended reading lists from the school's English, science, and social studies departments. It includes books for students in grades 6-12. While written for Dana Hall students, it is an excellent list that includes the classics, contemporary fiction, historical fiction, mysteries, science fiction and fantasy, social studies books, and science books, among others.

Tapping Volunteers to Help with Summer Reading Programs

  • The California State Library offers resources for libraries who want to recruit and use volunteers. The resources are available from their web site.

Programming Ideas

Partnerships & Collaboration

Additional Resources for Librarians

ALA. ALA Library Fact Sheet 17 (basic info about library summer reading programs and links to additional resources, including related research)

ALA. "Summer Reading." ALA Professional Tips Wiki.

Johns Hopkins Center for Summer Learning www.summerlearning.org/ (articles, research and more)

Kan, Katharine, for YALSA. Sizzling Summer Reading Programs for Young Adults, 2nd ed. American Library Association. 2006.

Minkel, Walter. Study: Summer Reading Helps Students, School Library Journal. 2/1/02.

Reading is Fundamental. Keeping Kids off the Summer Slide

Reading Rockets. Summer Reading Resources (includes tips for parents and teachers)

"VOYA's Best High School Summer Reading List 2005" VOYA, February 2006.

YALSA. "YALSA Announces Teens' Top Ten Nominations." ALA Press Release. 4/17/09.

YALSA. "Teen Reading Guide for Parents and Caregivers." 2006. A free, reproducible pamphlet to photocopy and distribute.
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