The Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) 2023’s All Together Now National Summer Reading Champion will be announced on Monday, May 22^nd – and it’s a big one! However, due to our partnership agreement, CSLP must keep it a secret for now… Meanwhile, we have the task of asking libraries to consider stocking the following titles that will be featured on a specially selected reading list our National Summer Reading Champion will be pushing out publicly. CSLP is asking member libraries to consider stocking the following books this summer, as patrons may come looking for them:

Very Good Hats by Emma Straub
Juneteenth by Van G. Garrett
Summer is for Cousins by Dr. Rajani LaRocca
Why Did the Monster Cross the Road? by R.L. Stine and Marc Brown
BIG by Vashti Harrison
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
How to Write a Poem by Kwame Alexander
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea by Dav Pilkey
The One and Only Ruby by Katherine Applegate
Ways to Grow Love (A Ryan Hart Story, 2) by Renee Watson
Fall of The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani
The Human Kaboom by Adam Rubin
Starﬁsh by Lisa Fipps
School Trip: A Graphic Novel by Jerry Craft
Joy, to the World by Kai Shappley
The Language of Seabirds by Will Taylor
Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
Borderless by Jennifer De Leon
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz
The Night in Question by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson
Victory. Stand! by Tommie Smith

Looking forward to May 22^nd!

Cathy Lancaster

Youth Services Coordinator

Library of Michigan
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Lansing, MI 48915
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