This document provides information about various summer reading challenges and contests for students. It describes a reading challenge hosted by BVMS that awards prizes for reading minutes logged over the summer. It also mentions a New York Times summer reading contest for 8th graders that asks students to write about what they are reading. The document lists titles of books recommended for the summer reading programs separated by genre.

1. BVMS
Summer Reading
Challenge
2014

2. Click on
the image
to visit the
BVMS
summer
reading
page!

3. Win Grand Prizes for All Ages:
•A photo shoot for a personalized READ
poster (for kids.)
•family 4-pack of tickets to Sea Life
Aquarium and Legoland Discovery
Center (for kids.)
•4-pack of tickets to AMC Theatres (for
teens)
•iPad (for adults.)
Click for
more
information!

4. Read for at least 15 minutes each day in the months of June
and July. (Grown-ups may read aloud to kids who are still
learning.)
Add up your minutes and have your parent or guardian
initial each week.
Once you’ve read 300 minutes, turn in your completed log to
earn HPB Bookworm Bucks for each month.
We’ll award one top reader per age group each month with
a TOP READER prize - a $20 HPB Gift Card!*

5. Here Is How:
Step 1. Read any 8 books and record them in the Reading Journal
(PDF).
Step 2. Bring your completed reading journal to a Barnes & Noble
store between May 21st and September 3rd, 2013
Step 3. Choose a FREE BOOK from our selection on the Reading
Journal list at the store... Enjoy reading!

6. The Fifth Annual New York Times Summer
Reading Contest
8th Grade only
Every Friday June 13 through Aug. 15, 2014
you can write in and tell us what you’re reading in The NY Times, and explain why it
interested you. We don’t care what you choose or whether you loved or hated it;
what we care about is what you have to say about why you picked it. You can choose
from anything published in the print paper or on NYTimes.com in 2014. And yes,
videos, graphics, slide shows and podcasts count. (In fact, one of our winners last
summer wrote about a photo.) Feel free to participate each week, but we allow only
one submission per person per week.
**The contest is open to teenagers only-- anyone from 13 to 19 years old.
Complete rules can be found @ The Learning Network
Check out the NY Times and NYT Learning Network for timely news!

7. The titles contained
within this presentation
are from a variety of state
award nominee lists;
among them Kansas,
Missouri, Texas, Florida
and YALSA best picks.

8. Not all books on this list
are recommended for all
grades.
A green star indicates a
title that is most
appropriate for 8th grade +
Reader discretion is
advised

9. Visit the BVMS
Catalog or the
Johnson County
Library Catalog

10. HistoricalFiction/Sports

11. ScienceFictionDystopia

12. HistoricalFictionMystery
8th+

13. FantasyTimeTravel

14. RealisticFiction

15. GraphicNovelScienceFiction
Book2

16. GraphicNovelScienceFiction
Book1

17. RealisticFictionComingofAge
8th+

18. NonfictionWorldWarII

19. Realistic
Fiction

20. Mystery/Thriller
8th+

21. FantasyMagic

22. Mystery

23. GraphicNovelFantasy
Book1

24. GraphicNovelFantasy

25. ScienceFiction

26. HorrorGhosts

27. 8th+
ParanormalVampires

28. RealisticFictionMystery

29. NonfictionWorldWarII

30. RealisticFiction
8th+

31. GraphicNovelFantasy

32. HorrorZombies

33. HorrorGhosts

34. ScienceFictionDystopia
Book1

35. 8th+
RealisticFictionRomance

36. GraphicNovelFairyTales

37. 8th+
RealisticFictionRomance

38. FantasyFairyTalesMystery

39. RealisticFiction

40. ScienceFictionDystopia
Romance
Book1

41. Humor

42. HorrorGhostStories

43. RealisticFictionRomance

44. RealisticFictionHumanRights
8th+

45. FantasyFairyTales
Book1

46. GraphicNovelFantasy
Book1

47. GraphicNovelFantasy
Book2

48. RealisticFiction

49. RealisticFiction

50. Mystery
8th+

51. HistoricalFictionGhosts
8th+

52. GraphicNovel

53. HistoricalFictionRomance

54. ActionAdventureSuperheroes
Book1

55. ActionAdventureSuperheroes
Book2

56. HistoricalFiction

57. RealisticFiction
8th+

58. FantasyDragons
Book1

59. FantasyDragons
Book2

60. FantasyDragons
Book3

61. NonfictionAmericanHistory

62. ScienceFictionDystopia

63. Horror
8th+

64. Humor

65. GraphicNovelFantasy

66. Nonfiction

67. HistoricalFiction

68. HistoricalFictionMystery

69. RealisticFiction

70. RealisticFictionComingofAge
GLBT
8th+

71. FantasyMagicRomance

72. NonfictionMemoir

73. RealisticFictionComingofAge
8th+

74. ScienceFictionTimeTravel

75. ScienceFictionSteampunk

76. HistoricalFictionWorldWarII
8th+

77. SportsBasketball

79. MysteryGhosts

80. 8th+
ScienceFictionDystopia

81. FantasyMythology
Book2

82. FantasyMythology

83. Fantasy

84. Nonfiction

85. ScienceFictionDystopia
8th+

86. ScienceFictionDystopia

87. NonfictionMemoir
WorldWarIIHolocaust

88. HistoricalFiction
GothicRomance

89. HistoricalFiction
GothicRomance
Book2

90. 8th+
ScienceFictionDystopia

91. ScienceFictionDystopia
Book2
8th+

92. HorrorGhosts

93. Action/AdventureSurvival

94. Fantasy

95. SportsBaseball

96. MysteryThriller
8th+

97. FreeVerse/RealisticFiction
8th+

98. HistoricalFiction

99. HistoricalFictionHorror

100. HistoricalFictionHorror
Book2

101. NonfictionWorldWarIIHolocaust

102. NonfictionMemoir

103. Fantasy/Mystery

104. GraphicNovel

105. Mystery
Crime

106. ScienceFictionDystopia

107. ScienceFictionDystopia

108. HorrorMysteryThriller

109. HistoricalFiction
Medieval

110. RealisticFiction
Romance

111. RealisticFiction/
Romance

112. FantasyMagic

113. Humor/Realistic
Fiction

114. Fantasy/Magic

115. Romanc
e

116. RealisticFiction

117. Nonfiction

118. RealisticFiction

119. Action/AdventureSurvival

120. RealisticFiction

121. RealisticFiction