Do you have any professional reading you would like to do? Are there some books you would like to preview for students before next school year? We could have discussions here with notes or blogging. It is up to you! Let's start with some recommendations:

1. "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman
See the ESU 10 Book Discussion Wiki by clicking on the link above.

2. Below is the books recommended by LMS at Media Specialists Day -Oct. 2, 2007.
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane
A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich
Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians by Jackie Mims Hopkins and John Manders
My Lucky Day by Keiko Kasza
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Maximum Ride : The Angel Experiment (Teen's Top 10 (Awards)) by James Patterson
Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long and David Shannon
2nd Chance by James Patterson and Andrew Gross
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner and Greg Hargreaves
America Under Attack (America at War) by Scott Marquette
Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1) by Scott Westerfeld and Rodrigo Corral
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Zach's Lie by Roland Smith
Little House on the Prairie (Little House) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Far from the Madding Crowd (Signet Classics) by Thomas Hardy and Suzanne Keen
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer
Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten
The Angels Trilogy by Lurlene Mcdaniel
The Bone Wars by Kathryn Lasky
Roses Are Red (Alex Cross Novels) by James Patterson
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
One for the Money (Stephanie Plum Series, Book 1) by Janet Evanovich