Aronson, Marc, ed. Pick-up Game: a full day of full court. 2011. 7th Grade.
Ten different short stories, ten different authors, ten different point of views make up Pick-Up Game. While most of the action takes place in the Cage, the basketball court on West 4th Street in New York City, the different characters add more layers and insight than a one-person point of view about this particular sport. Note: Miss Kate doesn’t even like basketball and she LOVED this book.
Ties in with: 7th Grade English

Hornby, Nick. Slam. 2007. 10th Grade.
At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones’s girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam’s life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.
Ties in with: 10th Grade English, Biology, Health

Myers, Walter Dean and Ross Workman. Kick. 2011. 7th Grade.
Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.
Ties in with: 7th Grade English
Great for fans of Walter Dean Myers

Other Sports Fiction of Interest

While these may not necessarily tie-in with the Common Core, they’re still fantastic reads for those in 7-12.

Cross, Shauna. Derby Girl. 2007.
When sixteen-year-old rebel Bliss Cavendar, who is miserable living in a small Texas town with her beauty pageant-obsessed mother, secretly joins a roller derby team under the name “Babe Ruthless,” her life gets better, although infinitely more confusing. This book was the reason Whip It was made into a movie.

Herbach, Geoff. Stupid Fast. 2011.
Growing suddenly very tall in his sophomore year of high school, former small kid Felton Reinstein discovers that he has become a very fast runner but finds his athletic ambitions compromised by his mother’s depression, his annoying younger brother, a first romance and a shocking secret from his past.

Korman, Gordon. Pop. 2009.
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker whose erratic behavior confuses him, until Marcus discovers that the player is actually suffering from a neurological disease.

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. Dairy Queen. 2007, 2006.
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 of the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her. First in a trilogy.

Incoming 7th Grade (English & Social Studies)

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Incoming 8th Grade (English & Social Studies)

Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine

Incoming 9th Grade (English & Social Studies)

Marathon by Boaz Yakin and Joe Infumari

Incoming 10th Graders/AP European History

Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly

Intro to College English

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

AP American History

AP World History II

The Human Web: A Bird’s Eye View of World History by McNeill & McNeill

OR

AP Language & Composition

AP Literature & Composition

Crime and Punishment by Theodore Dostoyevsky (Signet Classic edition)

AP Government & Economics

Newspaper assignment involving The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times

All assignments can be accessed on the school’s website.

The more books you read and review, the more chances you will have to win some of our great prizes! Free gift for signing up while supplies last!

Don’t miss our Adult Summer Reading Club’s Wrap Up Pizza Party on  Tuesday, August 27^th 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Exclusive party only for participants of the Adult Summer Reading Club!  Join us to discuss your favorite summer reads. Raffles will be drawn and prizes awarded! Come hungry! Please note: You must have reviewed at least 1 book to be eligible for a raffle drawing. The more books you review, the more raffles your name will be entered in!

For more details and to register, please visit www.cshlibrary.org or sign up at the Information Services desk beginning on June 20th.

As always, we will kick off the program with our Summerfest Carnival on Thursday, June 20th from 5-7pm. Come down to the library parking lot for face painting, popcorn, carnival games, a bounce house, and -of course- to sign up for the Summer Reading Club!

We hope to see you soon!

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Forge. 2010. 7th Grade
Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more. Sequel to Chains.
Ties in with: 7th Grade Social Studies & English

Bray, Libba. The Diviners. 2012. 11th Grade.
Seventeen-year-old Evie O’Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, the curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.
Ties in with: 11th Grade Social Studies & English
Of interest to anyone taking a class about New York City’s history

Chibbaro, Julie. Deadly. 2011. 7th-8th Grade.
Set during the Typhoid Fever epidemic of 1906, Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York City’s Department of Health and Sanitation. During a time when medicine and science was open only to men, she’ll have to prove to herself and the city that she can help solve one of the great medical mysteries of the time.
Ties in with: 7th Grade English, Social Studies, and Science

Johnson, Alaya Dawn. Moonshine: a novel. 2010. 11th Grade.
Zephyr Hollis is an underfed, overzealous social activist who teaches night school to the underprivileged of the Lower East Side. Strapped for cash, Zephyr agrees to help a student, the mysterious Amir, who proposes she use her charity work cover to bring down a notorious vampire mob boss. What he doesn’t tell her is why. Soon enough she’s tutoring a child criminal with an angelic voice, dodging vampires high on a new blood-based street drug, and trying to determine the real reason behind Amir’s request.
Ties in with: 11th Grade English & Social Studies
Of interest to anyone taking a class about New York City’s history

Meloy, Maile. The Apothecary. 2011. 8th Grade.
It’s 1952 and the Scott family has just from L.A. to London. Here, fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows – a fascinating boy who’s not afraid to stand up to authority and dreams of becoming a spy. When Benjamin’s father is kidnapped, the two must uncover the secrets of the apothecary’s sacred book, the Pharmacopoeia, in order to find him, all the while keeping it out of the hands of their enemies – Russian spies in possession of nuclear weapons. Discovering and testing potions they never believed could exist, Janie and Benjamin embark on a dangerous race to save the apothecary and prevent impending disaster.
Ties in with: 8th Grade English, Social Studies, and Science

Napoli, Donna Jo. The Wager. 2010. 10th Grade.
Having lost everything in a tidal wave in 1169 Sicily, nineteen-year-old Don Giovanni makes a simple-sounding wager with a stranger he recognizes as the devil but, while desperate enough to surrender his pride and good looks for three years, three months, and three days, he is not willing to give up his soul.
Ties in with: 10th Grade English and Social Studies, AP European History

Wein, Elizabeth. Code Name Verity. 2012. 10th Grade.
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
Ties in with: 10th Grade English and Social Studies, AP European History

Blair, Margaret Whitman. Liberty or death: the surprising story of runaway slaves who sided with the British during the American Revolution. 2010. 7th Grade.
Liberty or Death is the little-known story of the American Revolution told from the perspectives of the African-American slaves who fought on the side of the British Royal Army in exchange for the promise of freedom.
Ties in with: 7th Grade Social Studies and Science

Hopkinson, Deborah. Titanic: voices from the disaster. 2012. 7th-8th Grade.
Tells the tale of the sinking of the Titanic using the narratives of the witnesses and survivors to the disaster.
Ties in with: 7th-8th Grade Social Studies

Miller, Brandon Marie. Women of the frontier: 16 tales of trailblazing homesteaders, entrepreneurs, and rabble-rousers. 2013. 9th Grade.
Using journal entries, letters sent home, and song lyrics, the women of the West speak for themselves in these tales of courage, enduring spirit, and adventure. Miller recounts the impact pioneers had on those who were already living in the region as well as how they adapted to their new lives, and the rugged, often dangerous landscape, this exploration also offers resources for further study and reveals exactly how these influential women tamed the Wild West.
Ties in with: 9th Grade English & Social Studies

Povich, Lynn. The good girls revolt: how the women of Newsweek sued their bosses and changed the workplace. 2012. 11th Grade.
Chronicles the sexual discrimination class action lawsuit that women journalists brought against their employer, Newsweek, in 1970.
Ties in with: 11th Grade English & Social Studies
Of interest to anyone taking Journalism or Economics

Sheinkin, Steve. The notorious Benedict Arnold: a true story of adventure, heroism, and treachery. 2010. 7th Grade.
An introduction to the life of Benedict Arnold that highlights not only the traitorous actions that made him legendary, but also his heroic involvement in the American Revolution.
Ties in with: 7th Grade Social Studies

Swanson, James L. Bloody times: the funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt for Jefferson Davis. 2011. 8th Grade.
On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time – the Yankees are coming, it warned. That night Davis fled Richmond, setting off an intense manhunt for the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved in the conspiracy that led to the crime.
Ties in with: 8th Grade Social Studies

So here’s the thing: we have compiled a massive list of books for teens entering grades 7-12 in September. These books are awesome, vetted by our staff as being terrific, and here’s the sneaky thing – they relate to the Common Core Curriculum. From now until August the Teen Services pages will be updated with themed book-lists.

So, if you’re hankering for non-fiction, graphic novels, outer space, or even weird science, visit the Teen page often this summer!

Father’s Day Coasters

Tuesday, June 11th at 4:30pm

For children in grades K-2

Father’s Day T-Shirts

Wednesday, June 12th 4:30pm

For children in grades 3-6

Father’s Day Candy Bars

Thursday, June 13th 11am

For children ages 2-5 with adult

Stop in, register online, or call us at (631) 692- 6820 to save your spot. We hope to see you soon!

FICTION

Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda & Scott Fitzgerald by R. Clifton Spargo
In 1939 Scott is living in Hollywood, a virulent alcoholic and deeply in debt. He arranges a trip to Cuba in an attempt to save his fractured marriage to Zelda. But even in paradise, Scott and Zelda cannot escape the dangerous intensity of their relationship.

Call Me Zelda by Erika Robuck
Fighting to forge an identity independent of her famous husband as she teeters on the brink of madness, Zelda Fitzgerald is committed to a psychiatric hospital in 1932. She finds a sympathetic friend in nurse Anne Howard, who is held captive by her own tragic past.

Gatsby’s Girl by Caroline Preston
Based on the life of Genevra King, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first love and muse, from their first meeting, through their intense epistolary romance, to her marriage to a dashing young aviator, as she reflects on what her life would have been if she had chosen the writer instead.

The Gin Lovers by Jamie Brenner
Living with her controlling husband in 1920s New York, socialite Charlotte Delacorte’s life changes when her sister-in-law Mae takes up residence with the couple and introduces Charlotte to the flapper revolution.

The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell
A typist for the NYC Police Department in 1923, prim, old-fashioned Rose Baker becomes obsessed with a glamorous newcomer and her world of bobbed hair, smoking, and speakeasies.

A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion by Ron Hansen
A tale based on a true story from 1920s Manhattan follows the affair between voluptuous Ruth Snyder and undergarment salesman Judd Gray, whose plot to kill Ruth’s husband triggers an explosive police investigation.

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father’s opposition and her scandalous transformation into a Jazz Age celebrity in the literary party scenes of New York, Paris, and the French Riviera.

NONFICTION

Bobbed Hair & Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties by Marion Meade (CD book)
A portrait of four extraordinary writers–Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber–whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s.

The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime & Celebrity in 1920s New York by Stephen Duncombe & Andrew Mattson
A tale of flappers and fast cars, sex and morality, celebrity and crime ripped straight from the headlines of the Jazz Age.

Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald edited by Jackson R. Bryer & Cathy W. Barks
A collection of love letters recreates one of the most famous love stories in modern history, while revealing some new information about Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

F. Scott Fitzgerald by Ruth Prigozy
Scott Fitzgerald’s life reads like one of his own stories: a young man of great promise marries into wealth, but beneath the golden surface lie alcoholism, debt, insecurity, and in Fitzgerald’s particular case, the mental instability of his beautiful, unconventional wife, Zelda.

Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom: Zelda & Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriage by Kendall Taylor
A new perspective into the tumultuous marriage of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald details their complex relationship, which eventually resulted in his becoming an incurable alcoholic and her descent into madness.

Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise by Sally Cline
A portrait of the Jazz Age artist and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald traces their dysfunctional marriage, Zelda’s work as a painter and dancer, and her struggle to define herself despite the glamorous flapper identity placed upon her by her husband.