Summer Reading Assignment
Some Books from the Summer Reading List
Running with Lions by Available at the public libraries and Sora.
I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Available at the public libraries and Sora.
Burn down, Rise Up by Available at the public libraries and Sora
Like a Love Story by Available at the public libraries and Sora.
TJ Powar Has Something to Prove by Available at the public libraries and Sora
The Drowned Cities by Available at the public libraries and Sora.
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Available at the public libraries, the East Side library and Sora.
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Available at the public libraries and Sora.
When the Moon Was Ours by Available at the public libraries and Sora.
New York Times Summer Reading Contest
- The Fourteenth Annual New York Times Reading Contest!The contest runs from June 9 to Aug. 18. Every week, they ask participants to choose something in The Times that has sparked their interest, then tell the newspaper why. You then have until the following Friday to answer, when a team of Times journalists choose their favorite responses, and they publish them.
2023 Teens' Top Ten Contest
The Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in sixteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted on Support Teen Literature Day, the Thursday of National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year. Readers ages twelve to eighteen will vote online in August and September; the winners will be announced during Teen Read Week.
- All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir. Razorbill.
- Alone Out Here by Riley Redgate. Disney Hiperion.
- Blackwater by Jeanette Arroyo and Ren Graham. Henry Holt and Co.
- Crumbs by Danie Stirling. Clarion Books.
- Dig Two Graves by Gretchen McNeil. Disney Hyperion.
- Don't Look Back: A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to America by Achut Deng and Keely Hutton. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
- Five Survive by Holly Jackson. Electric Monkey.
- Gallant by VE Schwab. Greenwillow Books.
- Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh. Feiwel & Friends.
- Gleanings: Stories from Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman. Simon &Schuster Books for Young Readers.
- Gold Mountain by Betty Yee. Carolrhoda.
- I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys. Penguin.
- Icebreaker by Hannah Gold. Pig and Bear Publishing.
- The Ivory Key by Akshaya Raman. Clarion Books.
- Lakelore by Anna-Maria McLemore. Feiwel & Friends.
- Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes. Balzer + Bray.
- Lia and Beckett's Abracadabra by Amy Noelle Parks. Harry N. Abrams.
- Lightlark by Alex Aster. Harry N. Adams.
- Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of an Wuhanese American by Laura Gao. Balzer + Bray.
- A Million Quiet Revolutions by Robin Gow. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux.
- My Sister's Big Fat Indian Wedding by Sajni Patel. Harry N. Adams.
- Nothings Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk. Versify.
- Nothing More to Tell by Karen McManus. Delacorte Press.
- The Rumor Game by Dhonielle Clayton and Sona Charaipotra. Disney.
- Some Mistakes Were Made by Kristin Dwyer. HarperTeen.
Some Books from the Teens' Top Ten List 2023
Crumbs by 
Don't Look Back by 
Five Survive by 
I Must Betray You by 
A Million Quiet Revolutions by 
The Rumor Game by 
Some Mistakes Were Made by 
Blackwater by 
Gallant by
