Integrating Reading: Fun reads ages 8-12

No matter how old you get, there is nothing better than a good picture book. Here are a few more authors you will fall in love with.

In 1932, James Banning was the first African American to complete a 21 day transcontinental flight.


This book of poems blows my mind. I love them and you will see this again during poetry month. The poems read both up and down, with a different meaning each direction.


Twelve-year old "brother" helps his grandparents keep the family ranch in Oregon when his brothers are away and his father is deployed to Iraq. Such an honest book.


Can chicken pox burst the ninth-grade football team's dream of winning the state championship?

Integrating books: Fun Summer Reads for children ages 0-7

Now that the summer is in full swing, boredom has set in. Why not schedule a weekly visit to the library to pick up these fun new stories? I will start with the young, new readers for now. Older kid reads will be coming shortly.

Lovable Lola is back in this imaginative sequel to the best-selling Lola at the Library.
Lola loves to go to the library with her daddy. Every night she reads a new story, and the next day, she acts it out. One day she's a fairy princess, the next day she goes on a trip to Lagos! She becomes a tiger, a farmer, a pilot. . . . what will Lola be next?

Children and adults will love following along with Lola's adventures. Lola Loves Stories celebrates imaginative thinking and the importance of books as a way to inspire young minds.

A little boy has a rhyming, kissing adventure with his family.


This hand picked collection of nursery rhymes was embroidered and sews illustrated, by the author.

3 little dassies cross a desert in S. Africa to build their houses.

Molly and her friends struffle to come up with a birthday gift for their friend, Turtle.


And when your voice gets tired of reading, here are a few books with CDs:



Your library card will be so happy it is busy. Happy Reading!