Groton Reads …Because It’s Fun (And Required For Some!)

Summer reading is not just fun, think beach with your favorite book, but for Groton Public School kids, it’s required …and graded, especially for Fitch High School students.

Fitch students, including incoming freshmen, have specific guidelines and requirements to follow with summer reading and must take notes, which will be collected the first week of school. Here’s lots more information about the what’s expected for each grade including book lists and instructions on note taking. 

The One Book, One Region 2013 selection is Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan which centers on the author’s experience as a volunteer in the Little Princes Children’s Home in Nepal. When he learned that the children in the home were not orphans, but were in fact trafficked, he moved to Kathmandu and started Next Generation Nepal, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reconnecting trafficked children with their families.

Meanwhile, the Groton Public Library’s Summer Reading programs are designed for everyone from babies (yes!) to adults.

The ‘Dig Into Reading’ program is designed for kids, ‘Beneath the Surface’ was created for teens and ‘Groundbreaking Reads’ is for adults.

Kids earn prizes for reading, teens get gift cards for logging in reading hours and adults a program end raffle prize is the carrot. All the info you need for the library’s awesome summer reading program is right here.  

Here’s what I’m reading this summer: ‘A Visit From the Goon Squad’ and ‘The Gods of Gotham.’ What about you? What are you reading this summer? What do you suggest? Tell us in the comments!