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LEARNING RESOURCES AND TECHNOLOGY...
Connecticut Authors and Themes



  To celebrate Connecticut's rich 375-year history, Governor Rell has declared Summer Reading
as "Make Waves for Reading" with a focus on Conneccticut Authors and Themes. The books listed below
have been added to our collection and we take great joy and pride in featuring our own State of
Connecticut. Following the links will take you directly to the homepage of the authors.


Tony Abbott:

City of the Dead and Bayou Dogs
Firegirl
The Ghost Road
The Postcard
The Red House

Cynthia DeFelice

The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker

Laurie Halse Anderson

Chains

Susan Fletcher

Alphabet of Dreams

Nancy Antle

Lost in the war

Esther Friesner

Tempting Fate

Nora Raleigh Baskin

Basketball

Gail Gauthier

Happy Kid!

 

Jay Bennett

Coverup

Patricia Reilly Giff

Water Street

Emma Carlson Berne

Courage in Darkness

Chris Grabenstein

The Crossroads

Judy Blume

Here's to You, Rachel Robinson
Just as Long as We're Together

Tonya Hegamin

Pemba's Song: A Ghost Story

Leslie Bulion

Uncharted Waters

Carol Otis Hurst

Through the Lock

P.W. Catanese

The Mirror's Tale: A Further Tales Adventure

Paul B. Janeczko

Worlds Afire

James Lincoln Collier

War Comes to Willy Freeman

Robert Lawson

Rabbit Hill

Suzanne Collins

Gregor and the Marks of Secret

Greg Logsted

Alibi Junior Hiigh

Caroline B. Cooney

Both Sides of Time
Code Orange
Diamonds in the Shadow
Driver's Ed
Enter Three Witches: a Story of Macbeth
The Face on the Milk Carton
Family Reunion
Flash Firer
Flight #116 is Down
For all Time
Goddess of Yesterday
Hit the Road
If the Witness Lied
The Party's Over
The Ransom of Mercy Carter
The Return of the Vampire
The Snow
The Terrorist
They Never Came Back
Twenty Pageants Later
The Vampire's Promise
The Voice on the Radio
Whatever Happened to Janie?

Mike Lupica

The Batboy
Million-Dollar Throw
Miracle on 49th Street

Alice Mead

Junebug

Carolyn Meyer

Jubilee Journey

Anna Myers

Spy!

David Pogue

Abby Carnelia's One and Only Magical Power

Susan Schade

Travels of Thelonious

Elizabaeth George Speare

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Cynthia Voigt

Homecoming

Jacqueline Woodson

Maizon at Blue Hill

Bil Wright

When the Black Girl Sings