The Book Beach at Lafayette School

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Welcome to the Book Beach!

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Reading Road Trip
Poetry on Parade

I like to...

go swimming. -- Jason D.

I like to...

read in a hammock. -- Emma B.

I like to...

relax at the pool. --Hannah

I like to...

make sandcastles. -- Ava L.

I like to...

go to the pool. -- CJ

I like to...

go to the Colony Pool! -- Rachel

I like to...

play video games and go to the pool. -- Bryce H.

I like to...

go to Lake George with my family. --Colleen R.

I like to...

swim. --Gabriel

I like to...

swim. --Delaney M.

I like to...

go to my beach house with friends. I like hanging out at the beach. --Mackenzie A.

I like to...

go skateboarding at Camp Woodward. I also like to go to my pool and rock climbing. --Teddy P.

I like to...

boogie board in the ocean. --Sydney O.

I like to...

go to the beach. My grandparents live there. I also enjoy making sand castles. I like summer camp and tennis, too. --Lauren C.

Summer Stories

The Penderwicks series by Jeanne Birdsall
Cartboy Goes to Camp by L.A. Campbell
The Absolute Value of Mike by Kathryn Erskine
Hidden by Helen Frost
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Spy Camp by Stuart Gibbs
Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Summer Vacation by Tom Greenwald
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer Holm
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney
Ten Good and Bad Things about My Life (So Far) by Ann M. Martin
How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill by James Patterson
Notes from the Dog by Gary Paulsen
The Hidden Summer by Gin Phillips
Nerd Camp by Elissa Brent Weissman

Best of the Beach

Explore the Wonder of Summer Reading

Wonder by R.J. Palacio (RL 4.8). My name is August. I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse...
Summer Reading: Can You Dig It?

Holes by Louis Sachar (RL 5.1). If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good ...
Tasty Summer Reading, Recipes Included!

School's out, and Lafayette Library Media Specialist Mrs. Cifrodella and daughters Julie and Jordan are serving up a heaping helping ...
Dewey Decimal Daredevils: We're Reading Biographies and Nonfiction This Summer!

This summer, Library Media Specialist Mrs. Cifrodella and her family ventured to Niagara Falls, a scenic natural wonder that straddles t...
High Tide, Happy Reading: Catching a Late-Summer Wave of Historical Fiction

We're strolling The Book Beach on this August Morning, and look what's washed ashore: a heap of page-turning historical fiction! ...
Best Books from LAF Beach Bums

Here are a few favorites from our own book beachers at LAF. Thanks to all our former 5th graders for creating these commercials! ...
Suitcases Packed with Fantastic Fiction: Summer Travels and Magical Journeys!

Going on Vacation by Carly. Lao Tzu, a philosopher in long-ago and far-away China, famously said, The journey of a thousand miles begin...
Soaking Up Sun-Sational Summer Reading!

Summer at the Beach by Julia B. I’m spending my summer at the beach… If you want to spend it at the library, go ahead. That’s h...
Dead End in Norvelt - 2012 Newberry Winner

Did you notice the book the Lafayette Cougar was reading? Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos is a wildy funny, fictionalized "me...
Beat the Heat with some spine-chilling mysteries...

Search the Beach!

Book Beach Visitors

I like to...

swim and boogie board. -- Peyton S.

I like to...

go to the beach and swim. -- Campbell L.

I like to...

go to camp and to the beach to surf. -- Leah

I like to...

jump into the pool. -- Clare B.

I like to...

go to the beach and go snorkeling. -- Brianna

I like to...

go to the beach. -- Sabrina

I like to...

go to the beach. -- Romane P.

I like to...

swim at the pool. -- Genevieve

I like to...

read in the car when we are driving to our vacation spot. -- Ella W.

I like to...

go to summer camp. -- Lizzy P.

I like to...

go to camp. -- Shayna B.

I like to...

eat gummy sharks. -- Sophie D.

I like to...

go to summer camp. -- Violette E.

I like to...

dive and swim at the pool. --Samantha G.

I like to...

go in my pool with my family. I play frisbee with my dad. I like to relax in my pool on a big raft. --Shay B.

I like to...

have a water gun fight with my brother. --Chris K.

I like to...

go to my grandparents' house on Cape Cod. When we visit, we go to the town pool. --Emma S.

I like to...

go fishing on the boat because it calms me down, and I have a lot of fun! --Michael M.

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Lafayette Favorites

El Deafo by Cece Bell
Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
The Island of Dr. Libris by Chris Grabenstein
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm
The 6th Grade Nickname Game by Gordon Korman
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Boardwalk New Jersey

G is for Garden State: A New Jersey Alphabet by Eileen Cameron
Heroes of the Surf: A Rescue Story Based on True Events by Elisa Lynn Carbone
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
The Legend of the Jersey Devil by Trinka Hakes Noble
What Was the Hindenburg? by Janet B. Pascal
I Survived... the Shark Attacks of 1916 by Lauren Tarshis
Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team by Audrey Vernick
Nicky Fifth series by Lisa Funari Willever

Thursday, June 21, 2012

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