Summer Reading 2009

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If you are in the midst of summer reading have fun with it, the following sites were mentioned in the slideshare above.

Type in the name of the book and the author into  What should I read next? and the site will make suggestions for your next book.

Type in the author of the book you enjoyed into Literature Map and other authors that write similar genre and themed books will start to bounce around the original name.

You can talk online with others who have read the same books as you using shelfari . This site also lets you embed pictures of the books you have been reading into blogs, wikis or start pages such as netvibes .

Bookcrossings is a fun outdoor activity your children can get involved with. Sign up to the site and register the book you are going to set free into the world, then leave it somewhere with a note as described on the site. The books sets off on an adventure that can be tracked online. Another way to use this site is to try and find books from bookcrossings. From the site

BookCrossing is earth-friendly, and gives you a way to share your books, clear your shelves, and conserve precious resources at the same time. Through our own unique method of recycling reads, BookCrossers give life to books. A book registered on BookCrossing is ready for adventure.

Leave it on a park bench, a coffee shop, at a hotel on vacation. Share it with a friend or tuck it onto a bookshelf at the gym — anywhere it might find a new reader! What happens next is up to fate, and we never know where our books might travel. Track the book’s journey around the world as it is passed on from person to person.

At Paperbackbookswap you can swap the books you have read for other books listed. Trent who writes The Simple Dollar blog loves this site and mentions it regularly in his blog as a way to save money on books.

Our librarian publishes a wonderful high school reading list that has many books on it that I want to read this summer.  It includes non fiction too, categories are:

• Science and health
• English
• History/social studies
• Fine Arts
• Math
• World Language