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Each year in the United States between September 15 and October 15 we celebrate 
Whether you’re still excited to be back at school, are counting down the days until the upcoming three-day weekend, are already feeling overwhelmed with homework, or are still lamenting over the end of summer, you might check out one of these Back to School Reads! Each book takes place during the school year or feature school life in a big way. So take a break and read! What are your favorite back to school reads?
The beginning of school is just around the corner. Some of you might be counting down the days. Others might be clinging to your last few moments of freedom. Either way, you might pick up one of these quick reads – every one less than 200 pages – to celebrate one last hurrah of summer! What quick reads do you recommend?
August 8th - August 17th Are you or someone you know going to be taking AP or Pre-AP Language Arts or Social Studies this upcoming Fall? At Freeman, we've got you covered. Join us for student and group-led discussions of the required summer reading to help get yourself in gear for the school year (and enjoy some snacks while you're at it)! We're also going to test your recall with some trivia contests - so read your books and you might win some prizes!
At this point in the summer, with just a couple of weeks before school officially starts, the Summer Reading Program about to end (have you logged your books or minutes? Log your books and minutes!), and weather that is so hot it saps your energy as soon as you walk out the front door, sometimes a little bit of boredom sets in. We’ve enjoyed sleeping in, staying up later, hanging out with friends, and maybe taking a family trip, but these last few weeks seem to draaaaaaaaggggg by. Why not check out a book that will have you laughing the rest of your summer away? What funny reads to you recommend?
Although I used to read a ton of fiction when I was a little kid, I kind of took a fiction break for quite a few years once I got into 7th grade or so. Rediscovering my love of fiction has been a fairly recent development in my life as a reader, but I still get the urges to read a really great nonfiction book every now and again. There are nonfiction books that have stories that are just as captivating as fiction and, as they say, sometimes the truth can be stranger than fiction. Below I’ve listed some newer nonfiction titles that have either just hit the shelves or have come out in the last year. What do you recommend?
We’re more than half-way through the year (and more than have way through SRP – have you registered? No? 
I can’t tell you how many times in the past couple of weeks I’ve had a parent come talk to me and say, “We’re going on a long car trip and need a good audiobook for the whole family” or “I need to find something that will appeal to my teens, but we can listen to with their grandmother.” Long car rides with the family are a great way of connecting with stories and with one another. Below I’ve listed a few audiobooks that I think would be good fare for a family car trip. What do you recommend?
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