{"id":557,"date":"2009-06-09T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2009\/06\/09\/summer-reading-should-be-fun\/"},"modified":"2009-06-09T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T08:10:00","slug":"summer-reading-should-be-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading Should Be Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am really glad I&#8217;m not a kid this summer.&nbsp;I have just amassed all the summer reading lists for the schools in our area. Why do so many schools feel compelled to force classics and only classics on kids during the summer? Why not mix it up, with some classics and some more current books? I understand wanting to expose to the classics because of the wrting and big themes, but these things exist in lots of Young Adult literature.&nbsp; I&#8217;d get creative if I were planning an entire summer reading list &mdash; such as, if you want to read <em>Twilight<\/em> you must also read Bram Stoker&#8217;s <em>Dracula.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> I am very curious what you Shelftalker readers would put on a summer reading list for kids in the 7th to 12th grades. Next week I&#8217;ll tally the results and we&#8217;ll have our own Shelftalker list.<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ll get the ball rolling with four of my choices:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Human Comedy<\/em> by William Saroyan<br \/> <em>Collected Stories of Eudora Welty<\/em> by Eudora Welty<br \/> <em>The Hunger Games<\/em> by Suzanne Collins<br \/> <em>The Book Thief<\/em> by Markus Zusak<\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s make a great list!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am really glad I&rsquo;m not a kid this summer.&nbsp;I have just amassed all the summer reading lists for the schools in our area. Why do so many schools feel compelled to force classics and only classics on kids during the summer? Why not mix it up, with some classics and some more current books? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}