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Summer 2010 Theme -- Make Waves or Make a Splash

 * [[image:surfboard.jpg width="130" height="187" align="left" caption="surfboard.jpg"]] || **Make some Waves**

 by Ann Brashares When teenager Carmen and her three friends discover that a pair of worn jeans from a thrift shop provides an uncanny fit for all four of them, they decide to form a sisterhood, with the pants as the symbolic bond of friendship among them, and embark on a sweet-sixteen //summer // . || Harris and me: a summer remembered by Gary Paulsen Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world. || by Judy Blume Two girls meet one summer and become best friends until one girl falls passionately in love. An exploration of choices, of friendship, love, families and having a friend too dangerous to forgive and too essential to forget. || Are we there yet? By David LevithanTricked by their parents into taking a trip to Italy together, two brothers--one in high school and the other recently graduated from college--reflect on the directions of their own lives and on the distance that has grown between them. ||
 * Read books about summer, vacations and water** ||
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 * Summer sisters: a novel

__Peaches__ by Jodi Lynn Anderson Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.

__Shift__ by Jennifer Bradbury When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened. __One fat summer__ by Robert Lipsyte An overweight fourteen-year-old boy experiences a turning-point summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.

__Zigzag__ by Wittlinger, Ellen <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">A high-school junior makes a trip with her aunt and two cousins, discovering places she did not know existed and stengths she did not know she had.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">__Desert crossing__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">by Elise Broach A summer trip across the New Mexico desert turns nightmarish for fourteen-year-old Lucy, her older brother Jamie, and his best friend Kit, as they become involved in the suspicious death of a young girl.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">__Honey, Baby, Sweetheart__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">by Deb Caletti In the summer of her junior year, sixteen-year-old Ruby McQueen and her mother, both nursing broken hearts, set out on a journey to reunite an elderly woman with her long-lost love and in the process learn many things about "the real ties that bind" people to one another.

__The Red Kayak__ by Priscilla Cummings Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">__A Northern light__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">by Jennifer Donnelly In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiancé, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.

__Deliverance__ by James Dickey Four suburban businessmen take a canoe trip along a Georgia river, an odyssey that pits their courage against the river's raging rapids and the most primitive human impulses of fear, lust, and murder.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">__The Isabel factor__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">by Gayle Friesen Introvert Anna is forced to go to summer camp as a counselor-in-training alone after her outgoing best friend Zoe breaks her arm, but when she meets another lonely girl, Isabel, she realizes what true friendship is all about. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">__Last Days of summer__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">by Steve Kluger After Jewish Joey Margolis's father leaves their Brooklyn home, Joey wants a father, and he begins writing New York Giants player Charlies Banks. __Accidents of nature__ by Harriet McBryde Johnson Having always pride herself on blending in with "normal" people despite her cerebral palsy, seventeen-year-old Jean begins to question her role in the world while attending a summer camp for children with disabilities.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">__Girlfrind material__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">by Melissa Kantor <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">When Kate and her mother stay in Cape Cod for the summer, Kate falls for Adam, but is afraid he might consider her merely as a carefree fling. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">__The Juliet club__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">by Suzanne Harper <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">When high school junior Kate wins an essay contest that sends her to Verona, Italy, to study Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" over the summer, she meets both American and Italian students and learns not just about Shakespeare, but also about star-crossed lovers--and herself.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">__Dairy queen__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">by Catherine Gilbert Murdock After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">__Dunk__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">by David Lubar While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">__Full service__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">by Will Weaver In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">__Dream Factory__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">by Brad Barkley Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.