Special Booklist

Summer Reading 2011

Grades K-2 - Around the World with Reading

All the colors of the Earth By: Hamanaka, Sheila
Reveals in verse that despite outward differences children everywhere are essentially the same and all are lovable.

Bake You a Pie By: Ellen Olson Brown and Brian Claflin
Rhyming text celebrates musical styles from around the world as each verse describes the pie that will be baked to satisfy the hunger of such characters as Luciano the sweet little tenor and Ella the sweet little hepcat.

Children Just Like Me By: Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley
Photographs and text depict the homes, schools, family life and culture of young people around the world.

Everybody cooks rice By: Dooley, Norah
A child is sent to find a younger brother at dinnertime and is introduced to a variety of cultures through encountering the many different ways rice is prepared at the different households visited. Related titles present the diversity of bread, soup and noodles.

The Good Garden By: Katie Smith Milway
How one family went from hunger to having enough.

Let’s Eat! By: Beatrice Hollyer
What children around the world eat.

Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken By: Kate DiCamillo and Harry Bliss
Longing for adventure, intrepid Louise leaves her comfortable nest and goes to sea, the circus and a bazaar.

Madlenka By: Sis, Peter, 1949-
Series: Madlenka books, 1
Madlenka, whose New York City neighbors include the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the South American grocer, and the Chinese shopkeeper, goes around the block to show her friends her loose tooth and finds that it is like taking a trip around the world.

My granny went to market By: Blackstone, Stella
A child's grandmother travels around the world, buying things in quantities that illustrate counting from one to ten.

Naming Liberty By: Jane Yolen
In parallel stories, a Ukrainian Jewish family prepares to emigrate to the United States and Frederic Bartholdi designs, raises funds for, and builds the Statue of Liberty in honor of the United States’ centennial.

Rain School By: James Rumford
The children arrive on the first day of school and build a mud structure to be their classroom for the next nine months until the rainy season comes and washes it all away.

Smoky Night By: Eve Bunting
When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.

Somewhere in the world right now By: Schuett, Stacey
Describes what is happening in different places around the world at a particular time.

Toot & Puddle By: Hobbie, Holly Series: Toot & Puddle (Holly Hobbie), 1
Toot and Puddle are friends with very different interests, so when Toot spends the year travelling around the world, Puddle enjoys staying home and receiving his postcards.

Yoko By: Wells, Rosemary
Series: Yoko books (Rosemary Wells), 1
When Yoko brings sushi to school for lunch, her classmates make fun of what she eats--until one of them tries it for himself during International Food Day.

Grades 3-6 - Open Up Your World with Reading

Cracker! By: Kadohata, Cynthia
A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing dog.

Extra credit By: Clements, Andrew, 1949-
As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.

Framed By: Cottrell Boyce, Frank
Dylan and his sisters have some ideas about how to make Snowdonia Oasis Auto Marvel into a more profitable business, but it is not until some strange men arrive in their small town of Manod, Wales with valuable paintings, and their father disappears, that they consider turning to crime.

Homeless bird By: Whelan, Gloria
13-year-old Koly discovers that the husband her Indian parents have chosen for her is sickly.

The invention of Hugo Cabret By: Selznick, Brian
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.

The London Eye mystery By: Dowd, Siobhan
When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.

Odd and the Frost Giants By: Gaiman, Neil
An unlucky twelve-year-old Norwegian boy named Odd leads the Norse gods Loki, Thor, and Odin in an attempt to outwit evil Frost Giants who have taken over Asgard.

Rex Zero and the end of the world By: Wynne-Jones, Tim
Series: Rex Zero, 1
In the summer of 1962 with everyone nervous about a possible nuclear war, ten-nearly-eleven-year-old Rex, having just moved to Ottawa from Vancouver with his parents and five siblings, faces his own personal challenges as he discovers new friends and a new understanding of the world around him.

The ring of fire By: Baccalario, Pierdomenico
Series: Century quartet, 1
Four seemingly unrelated children are brought together in a Rome hotel where they discover that they are destined to become involved in a deep and ancient mystery involving a briefcase full of artifacts that expose them to great danger.

Silk umbrellas By: Marsden, Carolyn
Eleven-year-old Noi worries that she will have to stop painting the silk umbrellas her family sells at the market near their Thai village and be forced to join her older sister in difficult work at a local factory instead.

A single shard By: Park, Linda Sue
Tree-ear, a twelve-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.

The twenty-one balloons By: DuBois, William Pene, 1916-1993
Tells of the adventures of William Sherman, who flys a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic.

War games By: Couloumbis, Audrey
What were once just boys' games become matters of life and death as Petros and his older brother Zola each wonder if, like their resistance-fighter cousin, they too can make a difference in a Nazi-occupied Greece.

The wheel on the school By: DeJong, Meindert, 1906-1991
The school children of a small fishing village in Holland search for a wheel to put on the roof of their school so that storks will nest there and bring good luck to the town.

Where the mountain meets the moon By: Lin, Grace
Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor Chinese village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River.

Grades 9-12 - Great Big World

American Born Chinese By: Gene Luen Yang
Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture.

Before Columbus By: Mann, Charles C.
This study of Native American societies is adapted for younger readers from Charles C. Mann's best-selling 1491. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the book argues that the people of North and South America lived in enormous cities, raised pyramidshundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests.

Carpe diem By: Cornwell, Autumn
Sixteen-year-old Vassar Spore's detailed plans for the next twenty years of her life are derailed when her bohemian grandmother insists that she join her in Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia) for the summer, but as she writes a novel about her experiences, Vassar discovers new possibilities.

Chanda's secrets By: Stratton, Allan
Chandra struggles with the deaths of those around her and the shame of being molested as she continues her education and cares for her siblings and friend Esther, amidst the poverty and AIDs epidemic that plague her South African homeland.

Colibri By: Cameron, Ann, 1943-
Kidnapped when she was very young by an unscrupulous man who has forced her to lie and beg to get money, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl endures an abusive life, always wishing she could return to the parents she can hardly remember.

How the hangman lost his heart By: Grant, K. M. (Katie M.)
When her Uncle Frank is executed for treason against England's King George in 1746 and his severed head is mounted on a pike for public viewing, daring Alice tries to reclaim the head for a proper burial, finding an unlikely ally in the soft-hearted executioner, while incurring the wrath of the royal guard.

Hush By: Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-
Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is enchanted

Listening for lions By: Whelan, Gloria
Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.

Lost boy, lost girl By: Dau, John Bul
One of thousands of children who fled strife in southern Sudan, John Bul Dau survived hunger, exhaustion, and violence. His wife, Martha, endured similar hardships. In this memorable book, the two convey the best of African values while relating searing accounts of famine and war. There's warmth as well, in their humorous tales of adapting to American life.

A million shades of gray (Jan 2010)
By: Kadohata, Cynthia
In 1975 after American troops pull out of Vietnam, a thirteen-year-old boy and his beloved elephant escape into the jungle when the Viet Cong attack his village.

Mistik Lake By: Brooks, Martha, 1944-
After Odella's mother leaves her, her sisters, and their father in Manitoba and moves to Iceland with another man, she then dies there, and the family finally learns some of the many secrets that have haunted them for two generations.

The Red Necklace By: Gardner, Sally
In the late eighteenth-century, Sido, the twelve-year-old daughter of a self-indulgent marquis, and Yann, a fourteen-year-old Gypsy orphan raised to perform in a magic show, face a common enemy at the start of the French Revolution.

Someone named Eva By: Wolf, Joan M., 1966-
From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history.

The star of Kazan By: Ibbotson, Eva
After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.

Sunrise over Fallujah By: Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-
Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him.

Adult - Novel Destinations

Print

Fiction

• Davidson, Diana Mott. Dying for Chocolate (Goldy Culinary Mysteries). Crimeline, 1993. 352 p. (978-0553560244, pap.) Meet Goldy Bear, a bright, opinionated, wildly inventive caterer whose personal life has become a recipe for disaster. She’s got an abusive ex-husband who’s into making tasteless threats, a rash of mounting bills that are taking a huge bite out of her budget, and two enticing men knocking on her door.
• Fluke, Joanne. The Blueberry Muffin Murder (A Hannah Swensen Mystery) Kensington, 2002. 328 p. (157566707X) No one cooks up a delectable, suspense-filled mystery quite like Hannah Swensen, Joanne Fluke’s dessert-baking, red-haired heroine whose gingersnaps are as tart as her comebacks, and whose penchant for solving crimes—one delicious clue at a time—has made her a bestselling favorite.
• Kawabata, Yasunari. Thousand Cranes. Vintage, 1996. 140 p. (978-0679762652, pap.) This is the luminous story of Kikuji and the tea party he attends with Mrs. Ota, the rival of his dead father’s mistress. A tale of desire, regret, and sensual nostalgia, every gesture has a meaning, and even the most fleeting touch or casual utterance has the power to illuminate entire lives--sometimes in the same moment that it destroys them. Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker.
• Yoshimoto, Banana. Kitchen. Grove Press, 2006. 160 p. (978-0802142443, pap.) When college student Mikage Sakurai is orphaned by the death of her grandmother, she is rescued from loneliness and grief by Yuichi, a young flower shop delivery man, and discovers that families come in many shapes and can be found in many places.

Nonfiction

• Almond, Steve. Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America. Algonquin Books, 2004. 280 p. (978-1565124219) A self-professed candy-
  freak, Steve Almond set out in search of a much-loved candy from his childhood and found himself on a tour of the small candy companies that are persevering in a marketplace where big corporations dominate.
• Kidder, Tracy. Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World. Random House, 2003. 336 p. (978-0375506161) The story of Dr. Paul Farmer and his quest to provide public health care in Haiti and other impoverished places around the world.
  
• Kristof, Nicholas D., and Sheryl WuDunn. China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power. Vintage, 1995. 528 p. (978-0679763932, pap.) An insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China, China Wakes is an exemplary work of reportage.
  
• Kristof. Nicholas D., and Sheryl WuDunn. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Knopf, 2009. 320 p. (978-0307267146) Kristof and WuDunn take us to Africa and Asia, where many women live in profoundly dire circumstances - and some succeed against all odds. A Cambodian teenager is sold into sex slavery; a formerly illiterate woman becomes a surgeon in Addis Ababa. An Ethiopian woman is left for dead after a difficult birth. Through their powerful true stories, the authors show that the key to progress lies in unleashing women’s potential, that change is possible, and that each of us can play a role in making it happen.
• Mortenson, Greg. Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Viking, 2009. 448 p. (978-0670021154) From the author of Three Cups of Tea, this is the continuing story of this determined humanitarian’s efforts to promote peace through education in Afghanistan.

Nonprint

Video/DVD

• Around the World in 80 Days. Walt Disney, 2004. 119 minutes. (DVD) Rated G. An eccentric London inventor, Phileas Fogg, has come up with the secrets to flight, electricity, and even in-line skates, but the establishment has dismissed him as a crackpot. Desperate to be taken seriously, Fogg makes an outlandish bet with Lord Kelvin, the head of the Royal Academy of Science: to circumnavigate the globe in no more than 80 days.
• Chocolat. Miramax, 2000. 121 minutes. (DVD) Rated PG. In a tantalizing tale about desire Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche) and her six-year-old daughter (Victoire Thivisol) open a chocolate shop in a provincial French village. The townspeople are shocked when Vianne leaves her shop open during Lent, but her confections are too tempting for them to resist, especially for Roux (Johnny Depp) who wants more than sweets from beautiful Vianne.
• The Kite Runner. Paramount Vantage, 2007. 122 minutes. (DVD) Rated PG-13. Amir is a young Afghani from a well-to-do Kabul family; his best friend Hassan is the son of a family servant. Together the two boys form a bond of friendship that breaks tragically on one fateful day, when Amir fails to save his friend from brutal neighborhood bullies. Amir and Hassan become separated, and as first the Soviets and then the Taliban seize control of Afghanistan, Amir and his father escape to the United States to pursue a new life. Years later, Amir – now an accomplished author living in San Francisco – is called back to Kabul to right the wrongs he and his father committed years ago.
• Life Is Beautiful. Miramax, 1998. 122 minutes. (DVD) Rated PG-13. In this extraordinary tale, young Jewish Guido (Roberto Benigni), a charming but bumbling waiter who’s gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor, has won the heart of the woman he loves and created a beautiful life for his young family. But then, that life is threatened by World War II.
• Planet Earth. Warner Home Video, 2007. 550 minutes. (DVD) Not rated. This is a five-disc, 11-part series shot entirely in high-definition: From Pole to Pole, Mountains, Fresh Water, Caves, Deserts, Ice Worlds, Great Plains, Jungles, Shallow Seas, Seasonal Forests, and Ocean Deep.
• Spirited Away. Walt Disney Pictures, 2002. 120 minutes. (DVD) Rated PG. The whole family will enjoy director Haya Miyazaki’s animated film in which ten-year-old Chihiro and her parents wander into a town filled with gods, monsters, and witches. When Chihiro’s parents are changed into animals she must fend for herself. This requires finding a job to make her way in this strange world until she can find her way back home
• Tsotsi. Miramax, 2006. 94 minutes. (DVD) Rated R. On the edges of Johannesburg, Tsotsi’s life has no meaning beyond survival. One night, in desperation, Tsotsi steals a woman’s car. But as he is driving off, he makes a shocking discovery in the backseat. In one moment his life takes a sharp turn and leads him down an unexpected path to redemption.

Web sites

• The Armchair Travel Company. www.armchair-travel.com/. This is a virtual tour Web site where you can take virtual tours of places like the Taj Mahal or Kew Gardens.
• BiblioTravel. www.bibliotravel.com/places.php. BiblioTravel is a free online resource for identifying books set in distinct locales. You can search by author, title, genre, or place.
• Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time. www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0404/adventure_books_1-19.html. This is a scrumptious, wide-ranging list of annotated titles from West with the Night by Beryl Markham to A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby to Touching the Void by Joe Simpson.
• Hennepin County Library Bookspace. www.hclib.org/pub/bookspace/Authors.cfm. Bookspace offers helpful lists of world authors and their books.
• One Bag. www.onebag.com. This site offers a lot of detail on traveling light.
• Photobucket. www.photobucket.com. Photobucket is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation, and photo sharing Web site.
• Picasa™. http://picasa.google.com/. www.onebag.com. Picasa™ is free photo editing software from Google that makes your pictures look great.
• Rick Steve’s Packing Light and Right. www.ricksteves.com/plan/tips/packlight.htm. Veteran traveler Rick Steve offers advice on packing light.
• Stop! You’re Killing Me. www.stopyourekill
  ingme.com/index.html. This is an excellent resource for the lovers of mystery, intrigue, and suspense books organized with indexes to character names, author, geographical location of detective, historical period of mystery, type of detective, and more. Good for reader’s advisory and collection development.
• Strange Houses. forums.designrelated.com/forums/7/topics/13. Just for fun, visit this site with pictures of strange, weird, unusual houses from around the world.
• Three Percent www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php?s=about. This site is a destination for readers, editors, and translators interested in finding out about modern and contemporary international literature!
  

Books About Bullying

Picture books

Lucy and the Bully by Claire Alexander

The Wrong Crowd by Stan & Jan Berenstain

Arthur’s April Fool by Marc Brown

Loudmouth George and the Sixth-Grade Bully by Nancy Carlson

Camp Big Paw by Doug Cushman

Trouble in the Barkers’ Class by Tomie de Paola

The Last Laugh by Jose Aruego & Ariane Dewey

Pinky and Rex and the Bully by James Howe

Brundibar by Tony Kushner

Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell

The Recess Queen by Alexis O’Neill

One by Kathryn Otoshi

Big Bad Bruce by Bill Peet

Monster Mama by Liz Rosenberg

Tyrone the Horrible by Hans Wilhelm

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Junior Fiction

How to be Cool in the Third Grade by Betsy Duffey

Sara Kate Saves the World by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Cody and Quinn, Sitting in a Tree by Kirby Larson

Louise Takes Charge by Stephen Krensky

Owen Foote, Frontiersman by Stephanie Greene

My Dog, Cat by Marty Crisp

The Field of the Dogs by Katherine Paterson

The Annoying Team by Ilene Cooper

Agnes Parker . . . Girl in Progress by Kathleen O’Dell

Stitches by Glen Huser

Indigo’s Star by Hilary McKay

Dudes, the School is Haunted by R. L. Stine

My Secret Bully by Trudy Ludwig

Stravaganza:  City of Stars by Mary Hoffman

Horns & Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson

Don’t Talk to Brian by Jamie Suzanne

So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane

The Kidnappers:   A Mystery by Willo Davis Roberts

Camp Craziness by Sigmund Brouwer

Escaping the Great Wave by Peg Kehret

Chrissa by Mary Casanova

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Junior Nonfiction

Dealing with Bullying by Marianne Johnston

Talking About Bullying by Jillian Powell

A Children’s Book About Being Bullied by Joy Berry

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Young Adult Fiction

Inventing Elliot by Graham Gardner

Gifted by Beth Evangelista

Freak by Marcella Pixley

The Traitor Game by B. R. Collins

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Adult Nonfiction

Frequently Asked Questions About  Cyberbullying by Teri Breguet

The Complete Guide to Understanding, Controlling, and Stopping Bullies & Bullying:  by Margaret Kohut

The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome by Tony Attwood

Generation MySpace:  Helping Your Teen Survive Online  Adolescence

Why School Antibullying Programs Don’t Work by Stuart W. Twemlow and Frank C. Sacco

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DVD

Stop Bullying Now:  Take a Stand, Lend a Hand by U. S. Department of Health and Human Services

American Girl.  Chrissa Stands Strong

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