To read or not to read?....

Summer is fast approaching us...this means many teens have the opportunity to turn their brains off with no school and veg for three months solid.  Is this ideal?  NO! 

Reading is a beautiful thing.  A necessary thing.  A life thing...  And sometimes there needs to be some motivation to do so. 

Would you challenge your mentee to read books this summer?  

This list of books below are highly recommended by Reading teachers in West Dallas and will allow you to interact with your mentee about real issues and plots.  Maybe one book you could go to the library or Half Price Books and pick out a book together that interest your mentee... Ex. animals, cars, Asia, etc 

Maybe come up with a little reward system to affirm their reading?!   Here are a few ideas:

Reward System:

Book 1 - $5 card to Sonic or another restaurant

Book 2 - Nice Dinner and Movie

Book 3 - Day trip, maybe tubing

Book 4 - $40 cash

We would REALLY encourage you to suggest to your mentee to start out reading an easier book so he/she doesn't get frustrated. 

Easy

*Chronicles of Narnia

Carry on Mr. Bowditch

The Giver

Kairo

*Bridge to Terabithia

Tears of a Tiger

Moderate

The Glass Castle

Monster

*Hunger Games (3 books series)

*Gifted Hands

Do Hard Things

Run Baby Run

Difficult

Unbroken (great for boys)

Joker One (great for boys)

Redeeming Love (great for girls)

*Kite Runner

*Count of Monte Cristo 

*The Hiding Place

Uncle Toms Cabin

*** asterisk means there is a movie to watch after the book is read! *** 

HAPPY READING!