We have a large selection of books from the Sanborn Summer Reading List -- check out our online catalog to see if we have your choice--click here
Federal Student Aid
We have The Guide to Federal Student Aid brochures provided by the U. S. Department of Education. This brochure explains Funding Education Beyond High School including useful websites for free help completing the FAFSA along with toll free phone numbers and information on grants, loans and work study programs. The time is now for starting paperwork on loans for the 2008/2009 school year.
Teens!! Check out this website!!
www.ipl.org/div/teen/
Headed for College?
Check out these books!
Looking into colleges? You probably have some in mind. But do you still have questions? Come check out this series--College Prowler--Off the Record. These books ask questions you have and give you the answers from students that already attend the schools. Students help write, edit, survey and perform accuracy checks at each campus. The books help personalize the campus for you.
Calling all 7th and 8th graders!!
Check out the Isinglass Award nominations and place your vote. It is a statewide book award contest just for you.
Rundlett Middle School
Concord, New Hampshire
2007-2008
The 2007 winner is Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
The Isinglass Teen Read Award was begun in 2001 by the Barrington Public Library and the Barrington Middle School in order to promote teen reading, the participation of teens in the creation of their own reading list, and to honor those authors whose works speak to youth. The award is now open to all New Hampshire students in grades 7-8. Voting is done annually in April.
Check them out! How many can you read?
 The Looking Glass Wars By Frank Beddor When she is cast out of Wonderland by her evil aunt Redd, young Alyss Heart finds herself living in Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can return and claim her rightful throne.. |
 I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you By Ally Carter As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission. |
 Bloodline By Kate Cary Nineteen-year-old John Shaw returns from World War One and is haunted by nightmares of not only the battles but the horrifying discovery that his regimental commander is descended from Count Dracula. |
 Goddess of the night By Lynne Ewing Vanessa, who has always had the special power to become invisible, discovers that she and her best friend Catty, a time-traveler, are goddesses of the moon who must fight together to overcome the evil Atrox. |
 The Oracle Betrayed By Catherine Fisher After she is chosen to be "Bearer-of-the-god," Mirany questions the established order and sets out, along with a musician and a scribe, to find the legitimate heir of the religious leader known as the Archon. |
 Perfect By Natasha Friend Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.. |
 SilverFin : a James Bond adventure By Charles Higson Young James Bond attends school at the prestigious Eton boarding school, and teams up with Red to investigate the mystery of the disappearance of a boy, Alfie Kelly, Red's cousin, allegedly linked to a madman with a plot for global domination.. |
 The green glass sea By Ellen Klages While her father works on the Manhattan Project, eleven-year-old gadget lover and outcast Dewey Kerrigan lives in Los Alamos Camp, and becomes friends with Suze, another young girl who is shunned by her peers. |
 Sleeping freshmen never lie By David Lubar While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer. |
 Heat By Mike Lupica Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof..
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 Dairy Queen By Catherie Gilbert Murdock After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school’s rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.. |
 A summer of Kings By Han Nolan Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live with her family.. |
 Life as we knew it By Susan Beth Pfeffer Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.. |
 Mortal engines By Philip Reeve Tom, a third class apprentice in a distant future in which technology has been lost and tiered cities move about the Earth on caterpillar tracks, often absorbing smaller locales, has many dangerous adventures after being pushed off London by Thaddeus Valentine, a historian who is trying to resurrect an ancient atomic weapon. |
 The lightning thief By Rick Riordan Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war. |
 Framed By Malcolm Rose Forensic scientist Luke Harding and his robot assistant must solve a series of on-campus murders, especially since Luke is being framed for the murders. |
 The Trap By John E. Smelcer In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for brains than brawn, worries about his missing grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert Least-Weasel, struggles to survive, caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter. |
 Demons of the ocean : Vampirates By Justin Stomper Connor, who was rescued by pirates after his ship was wrecked, believes his twin sister, Grace, was abducted by the Vampirates and is determined to find her. |
 The Secret Hour By Scott Westerfeld Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess. |
 Storm Thief By Chris Wooding With the help of a golem, two teenaged thieves try to survive on the city island of Orokos, where unpredictable probability storms continually change both the landscape and the inhabitants. |
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO READ?
Teens--Interested in Graphic Novels? Saw a new series that we don't have? Just interested in a single book? If it isn't on our shelf just ask at the desk. We may be able to order it for you or borrow from another library. We want to get what you want to read. JUST LET US KNOW!!