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SCLSNJ Partners with Barnes and Noble Bridgewater to Reach Out to Educators

About Blog Post Apr 5, 2017 by Pressroom

Somerset County Library System of New Jersey Partners with Barnes and Noble Bridgewater to Reach Out to Educators

(Somerset County, NJ: April 5, 2017) On Tuesday, April 4, Somerset County Library System of New Jersey partnered with Barnes and Noble Bridgewater, located at the Somerville Circle in Bridgewater, for Educator Appreciation Day. SCLSNJ librarians, Linda Tripp, Jessica Trujillo, and Laura Frantz, presented the best books for educators so far this year to the attending K-12 educators. The books, listed below, are all available for checkout at SCLSNJ’s library branches.

SCLSNJ Recommended Best Books for Educators: K-12 (2017)

Picture Books Early Readers FICTION   Juvenile FICTION NON-FICTION   Middle Grades FICTION
  • "Baseball Genius" by Tim Green and Derek Jeter
  • "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds
  • "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
  • "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
  • "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo
  • "Scar Island" by Dan Gemeinhart
  • "Summerlost: A Novel" by Ally Condie
  • "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
NON-FICTION
  • "100 Women Who Made History: Remarkable Women Who Shaped Our World" by Stella Caldwell, Clare Hibbert, Andrea Mills, and Rona Skene
  • "Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific" by Deborah Hopkinson
  • "Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future" by Ashlee Vance
  • "Mission to Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt" by Mary Kay Carson; photographs by Tom Uhlman
  • "The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero" by Patricia McCormick
  • "Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team" by Steve Sheinkin
  • "The Way Things Work Now: From Levers to Lasers, Windmills to Wi-Fi, a Visual Guide to the World of Machines" by David Macaulay with Neil Ardley
  • "We Will Not be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement that Defied Adolf Hitler" by Russell Freedman
  Young Adult FICTION
  • "Alex & Eliza: A Love Story" by Melissa de la Cruz
  • "Bang" by Barry Lyga
  • "Caraval" by Stephanie Garber
  • "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
  • "Holding Up the Universe" by Jennifer Niven
  • "If I Was Your Girl" by Meredith Russo
  • "Love and f1rst Sight: A Novel" by Josh Sundquist
  • "The Old Kingdom" series by Garth Nix
  • "Paper Girls" by Brian K. Vaughan; illustrated by Cliff Chiang
  • "The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater
  • "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
  • "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
NON-FICTION
  • "Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting it Done" by Andrea Gonzales and Sophie Houser
  • "In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives" by Kenneth C. Davis
  • "March" trilogy by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin; illustrated by Nate Powell
  • "Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story" by Caren B. Stelson
  For more information, visit SCLSNJ.org or contact your local SCLSNJ Library branch. About Somerset County Library System of New Jersey Somerset County Library System of New Jersey (SCLSNJ) partners with you to connect, to explore, to share and to discover. Together we enrich lives, expand knowledge and strengthen communities. SCLSNJ branches can be found in Bridgewater, Bound Brook, Hillsborough, Manville, North Plainfield, Peapack & Gladstone, Rocky Hill at Mary Jacobs Memorial Library, Somerville, Warren Township and Watchung. Additionally, there are two SCLSNJ reading stations in Branchburg and Washington Valley. Visit SCLSNJ.org for further information about library services offered at SCLSNJ.

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