The Book Beach at Lafayette School

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Welcome to the Book Beach!

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Lafayette Links

  • Reading Road Trip
  • Poetry on Parade

I like to...

I like to...
go swimming. -- Jason D.

I like to...

I like to...
read in a hammock. -- Emma B.

I like to...

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relax at the pool. --Hannah

I like to...

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make sandcastles. -- Ava L.

I like to...

I like to...
go to the pool. -- CJ

I like to...

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go to the Colony Pool! -- Rachel

I like to...

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

I like to...

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

I like to...

I like to...
swim. --Gabriel

I like to...

I like to...
swim. --Delaney M.

I like to...

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

I like to...

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

I like to...

I like to...
boogie board in the ocean. --Sydney O.

I like to...

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...

I like to...
swim and boogie board. -- Peyton S.

I like to...

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

I like to...

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

I like to...

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jump into the pool. -- Clare B.

I like to...

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go to the beach and go snorkeling. -- Brianna

I like to...

I like to...
go to the beach. -- Sabrina

I like to...

I like to...
go to the beach. -- Romane P.

I like to...

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swim at the pool. -- Genevieve

I like to...

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

I like to...

I like to...
go to summer camp. -- Lizzy P.

I like to...

I like to...
go to camp. -- Shayna B.

I like to...

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eat gummy sharks. -- Sophie D.

I like to...

I like to...
go to summer camp. -- Violette E.

I like to...

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

I like to...

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...

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

I like to...

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...

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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

Summer Reflections by Leonie F.

Summer Reflections by Leonie F.


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