Reconsidering Summer Reading
by Susan Dougherty, NJLA Board Member The days of summer vacation are numbered and parents are immersed in the annual ritual of gathering school supplies, refreshing backpacks and lunchboxes, and scrambling to make sure their child has read the required summer reading book. In my children’s district, the request was reasonable: a picture book for my rising 3rd grader, which is the “whole school” summer read and was selected for grades K-3, and a graphic novel for my rising 5