IT'S NOT SUMMER WITHOUT YOU by Jenny Han

Realistic Fiction, Romance, Grades 7 and up, Student Favorite Recommendation

It's Not Summer Without You
Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.
Sequel: We'll Always Have Summer

OTHER TITLES BY JENNY HAN
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different as she finds herself falling for a boy she has known since childhood.

Shug
Annemarie "Shug" Wilcox, facing junior high school, disgruntled with her appearance, and confused by changing relationships, decides there is nothing worse than being twelve-years-old. 

SPORTS AUTHORS

SPORTS FANS

Sports—Fiction Popular Authors

• Matt Christopher
• Carl Deuker
• Thomas Dygard
• John Feinstein
• Tim Green
• Derek Jeter
• Mike Lupica
• Robert Lipsyte
• Jerry Spinelli

POETRY BOOKS & RESOURCES

 Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.

Love that Dog by Sharon Creech
A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.