Our district's Summer Enrichment program has been released to students and families. As always, our goal is to give students limited structured activities that will keep skills fresh without getting in the way of summer. I look forward to hearing the students share the great books they have discovered this summer.
For myself, this will be the first summer in 10 years where I will not be preparing for a fall graduate class. In place of academic texts and professional reading I plan to catch up on middle school fiction, graphic novels, and biographies. There are a few "adult" titles in the mix because they have been on the shelf too long and need to be read. Of course, this list of 45 books may shift as I visit the public library, explore NetGalley, or browse the bookstore. Some of these titles were recommended by students, colleagues, review blogs, or have been sitting on my bookshelf (physical and virtual) for way too long. There are also a few that I have "reading" for several years -- this is the summer they will be finished!
