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Summer Reading Program 2008

One of our story tellers had a wanted poster in her story. We thought it would be fun for the kids to have one to take home.

New Young Adult Books

Nonfiction

Do Not Open

Stolen Voices : young people's war diaries, from World War I to Iraq by Filipovic, Zlata

The Daring Book for Girls by Buchanan, Andrea J

The Dangerous Book for Boys by Iggulden, Conn

Fiction

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Alexie, Sherman

Twisted by Anderson, Laurie Halse

The Pox Party by Anderson, MT

Thirteen Reasons Why by Asher, Jay

Peter and the Secret of Rundoon, Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Cave of the Dark Wind by Barry, Dave

Frozen Fireby Bowler, Tim

The Sweet Far Thing, Rebel Angels by Bray, Libba

Shakespeare's Secret by Broach, Elise

Broken Angel by Brouwer, Sigmund

Upstate by Buckhanon, Kalisha

Perfect Princess : a princess diaries book, Princess Mia by Cabot, Meg

River Of Fire by Carman, Patrick

Dramacon : vol 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3 by Chmakova, Svetlana

Prey by Cole, Stephen

The Lost Colony by Colfer, Eoin

Lamplighter by Cornish, D M

Carpe Diem by Cornwell, Autumn

Deadline by: Crutcher, Chris

Tall tales by Day, Karen

Blue Bloods by De La Cruz, Melissa

Lock and Key, The Truth about Forever by Dessen, Sarah

Gym Candy by Deuker, Carl

Before I die by Downham, Jenny

Goddess of the Night, Into the Cold Fire, Night Shade, The secret scroll by Ewing, Lynne

The sacrifice, The lost one, Moon demon, Possession, The choice, The talisman by Ewing, Lynne

The prophecy, The becoming, The final eclipse, The summoning by Ewing, Lynne

Ignatius MacFarland: Frequenaut! by Feig, Paul

Nobody's Prize by Friesner, Esther M

Samurai Shortstop by Gratz, Alan

Among the Hidden, Among the Betrayed, Among the Barons, Among the Free, Found by Haddix, Margaret

Surrender by Hartnett, Sonya

Pretty Face by Hogan, Mary

A Countess Below Stairs, A Company of Swans by Ibbotson, Eva

The Raging Quiet by: Jordan, Sherryl

Diary of a wimpy kid : Greg Heffley'sjournal by Kinney, Jeff

Rules by Lord, Cynthia

Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange by Marr, Melissa

Tomorrow, When the War Began by Marsden, John

Cut; Sold by McCormick, Patricia

Mara, daughter of the Nile by McGraw, Eloise Jarvis

The Host by Meyer, Stephenie

Hot Lanta by Millner, Denene

Mexican High by Monroy, Liza

Send No Blessings by Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

How to steal a dog by O'Connor, Barbara

Bretty McCarthy : work in progress by Padian, Maria

The Final Warning : a Maximum Ride by: Patterson, James

The Titan's curse, The battle of the Labyrinth by Riordan, Rick

Physik, Queste by Sage, Angie

Anahita's Woven Riddle by Sayres, Meghan Nuttall

I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Schroeder, Lisa

The Trap by Smelcer, John E

Deogratias, a tale of Rwanda by Stassen, Jean-Philippe

The Thief by Turner, Megan Whalen

Peeps by Westerfeld, Scott

Come a Stranger, Sons From Afar by Voigt, Cynthia

The Sunbird by Wein, Elizabeth E

The Rules of Survival by Werlin, Nancy

Rogelia's House of Magic by Wood, Jamie Martinez

Poison by Wooding, Chirs

Feathers by Woodson, Jacqueline

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Zevin, Gabrielle

Elsewhere, Margarettown by Zevin, Gabrielle

Gossip Girl, You Know You Love Me, All I Want is Everything

Because I'm Worth It, I Like It Like That, You're the One That I Want

Nobody Does It Better by Ziegesar, Cecily Von

New Books for the YA

We had recently recieved a grant from the Mexia Rotary Club, a sum of $2000. The grant was used for the addition of Young Adults books. The Young Adult section was in need of new books for our young people. Previously the section had only 14 shelves of books, with the addition of about 200 books, additonal shelf space was needed. The Rotary Club members volunteered their help to move the two exsisting units over and put together a new shelving unit. Shelia, Lynn, and Linda lent their helping hands in removing books and putting the new unit together. We now have 25 shelves of YA books with space to grow. Come check it out!

Summer Reading Program

Gibbs Memorial Library Summer Reading Program had a great summer during the month of July. We had 269 children sign up. Our weekly programs were two storytime days and one craft day. Nan Brown, pictured left, read the story of "Cinderfella."Roxianne Schuster and Melody Schulte, Sara Sims, above, also read to us and told us stories. Glenda Nelson told us stories of her childhood and brought us homemade ice cream which we enjoyed so much that we forgot to take pictures. We had books, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, as give aways after storytime. At our end party we had Puppet Wise production put on a puppet play and then we handed out certificates for participation and for the ones who met their reading goals certificates and cowboy hats with bandanas. The Friends of the Library hosted with punch and cookies.