The Jackson County Library Services has summer reading programs for children, teens, and adults. Readers earn a free book and other prize opportunities. Sign up at any of the county's library branches. I've already read and turned in the log for my first four books; my seventeen year old daughter just finished her fourth book: Dante's Inferno.



Currently reading Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix. A different twist to the Cinderella story. Now she is the princess waiting to marry Prince Charming, but she realizes she doesn't love him and doesn't want to marry him. What will she do to get out of it?

 

And just finished two of Gary Paulsen's books, My Life in Dog Years and The Foxman. Paulsen writes of what he knows, always an interesting story, and stories often grew from his own experiences. If you haven't read any of Paulsen's upper grade, middle school, and young adult fiction, start with the book that makes Paulsen my favorite author: Hatchet.