Thursday, March 5, 2009

Big List of Spring Break Books

Here’s a personal list of spring break of vacation books students may want to check out before their own break. I based this on traveling, trips, vacations and spring breaks. I’ve already got my digital picture frame loaded and am going to glog this and embed it into my library webpage. If you can add to this list, please share!

13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
Absolutely Maybe by Lisa Yee
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Anything But Ordinary by Valerie Hobbs
Are We There Yet by David Levithan
Bass Ackwards and Belly Up by Elizabeth Craft
Becoming Chloe by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Black Sheep by Yvonne Collins
Captive by Tom Pow
Car Trouble by Jeanne Du Prau
The Chaos Code by Justin Richards
Crack in the Line by Michael Lawrence
Feathered by Laura Kasischke
Finding Lubchenko by Michael Simmons
Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn
Going Nowhere Faster by Sean Beaudoin
Guyaholic by Carolyn Mackler
Here There Be Dragons by James Owens
Heyday by Kurt Anderson
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
I’ll Ask you Three Times by Naomi Shihab Nye
Lucky T by Kate Brian
Magic or Madness by Justine Larbelestier
Night Road by A.M. Jenkins
Paper Towns by John Green
Pirates by Celia Rees
Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham
Shift by Jennifer Bradbury
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Anne Brashares
Society of S by Susan Hubbard
Sofi Mendoza’s Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico by Alegria Malin
Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman
Stealing Heaven by Elizabeth Scott
They Came by Below by Blake Nelson
The Watcher by James Howe
Waves by Sharon Dogar
Wish You Were Here by Catherine Clark
Year My Sister Got Lucky by Aimee Friedman
Zigzag by Ellen Wittlinger

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love your blog.

It's amazing how many books there are on this subject! Great list!
Here are a few more from a booklist I was making on the same topic:

Carpe Diem by Autumn Cornwell
All the Way by Andy Behrens
Monsoon Summer by Mitali Perkins
Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer
Whirligig by Paul Fleischman

Anonymous said...

"Carpe Diem" by Autumn Cornwell and also "Girl at Sea" by Maureen Johnson

Anonymous said...

Oh, and "How to Ruin a Summer Vacation" by Simone Elkeles

Lisa B. said...

I recommend "The Poison Apples" by Lily Archer. I read it during spring break and thought it was great. It doesn't feature spring break but it features life in a boarding school.

Laura said...

great list, it helped me make a spring break display. Thanks!