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Research shows proficient readers read 67 minutes a day! 


Welcome to Maine East's Summer Reading 2016!  Are you up to the challenge? This year we have provided 30 great selections for our Summer Reading! Now it's up to YOU!  


Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Breaking Point - American Born Chinese  - 16 Things I Thought Were True - And Everything Nice - The Serpent King - I am the Messenger - Openly Straight - Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac - Positive: A Memoir - Navigating Early - Gabi a Girl in Pieces - Golden Boy - All the Light We Cannot See - Born Confused - The Carnival at Bray - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Between the World and Me - Autobiography of a Face - The Namesake - Americanah - Fatherland - The Fishermen - The Opposite of Loneliness - After Tupac and D Foster - The Naked Roommate - Fangirl - Caged Warrior - Ender's Game

AP LANGUAGE REQUIRED READING: In Cold Blood
AP LANGUAGE REQUIRED READING ASSIGNMENT


AP LITERATURE REQUIRED READING ASSIGNMENT


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Find Your Summer Read

Need help finding what to read?  Check out our Find A Book Page to help you locate your read based on genre, reading level, accessibility!
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Track YOUR Time 

With Toggl you track time in real time. You never lose a minute of your "read time". If you forget to switch it on, then enter time later on. Organize your time by projects or tags, and mark it as “read time.”

SUPPORTING ONLINE RESOURCES


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Reading Plus

Students who had access to Reading Plus during the 2015-2016 school year, may continue to increase their fluency and comprehension scores.  Complete two SeeReaders per week and your reading grade level will increase by two.
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Reading Theory

This free program begins with a 10 minute pre-assessment.  Based on the results, you will be placed at your independent reading level with passages and reading comprehension questions.  The program will graph your progress over the summer.
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Newsela

This online newspaper offers current articles at five different Lexiles.  Keep current on world affairs, politics, sports, and entertainment while reading 67 minutes daily.  Join class V4KVVX for Maine East's 2016 Summer Reading.  The program will graph your progress over the summer.
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Online Newspapers

This website links newspapers from nations across the globe.  Read in your home language or practice skills in a new language.

Contact us

Colleen Cochran
Librarian
​847.692.8443
​ccochran@maine207.org
Lindsay Goldstein
Librarian
847.692.8444
lgoldstein@maine207.org
Shami Azra
Library Assistant
847.692.8444
sazra@maine207.org

LOCATION & HOURS

MAINE EAST HIGH SCHOOL 
2601 W. Dempster St.
Park Ridge, IL 60068

Monday-Friday: 7:00 AM - 4:30 PM

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    • Health
    • History
    • Literature
    • Newspapers/Periodicals
    • Primary Sources
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    • DATABASES A to Z
  • Assignment Resources
    • AP ENGLISH
    • AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
    • HISTORY PROJECT
  • Research
  • Research Paper Checklist
    • Research >
      • Step 1: Find Background Information
    • Choose a Topic
    • Writing a Claim (Thesis) Statement
    • Evaluating Your Resources
    • Annotated Bibliography
    • CITATION PAGE