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In addition to ongoing student and staff choice reading, the 2024 Summer Reading Celebration includes:

  • a ONE OCPS book selection for each grade level band (K-8)
  • virtual badges which can earn participants prizes, earned by logging reading minutes in Beanstack
  • virtual author visits to the schools with the biggest increase in participation in the Summer Reading Celebration

The One OCPS book titles selected for the 2024 Summer are:

Kindergarten-2nd
Hunger Heroes Cover
Hunger Heroes: Missed Meal Mayhem
3rd-5th
Vanderbeekers Cover
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
Middle School
Liars Society Cover
The Liars Society
High School
I Am Still Alive Cover
I am Still Alive

As your family reads this summer, OCPS encourages you to share the literacy message via Twitter. Using the hashtag, #OCPSreads, we hope our students (over 13 years of age) and parents will share what you are reading, where you are reading and how much you are reading. Utilize the hashtag when posting pictures of books and fun places that students read over the summer, too.

Visit the OCPS LaunchPad to access the Beanstack app for your students to log the minutes they spend reading this Summer and keep track of all the great books they read. When students reach designated milestones while logging reading minutes, they are entered to win great prizes.

Here are a few easy ways to include reading as part of your every day during the summer, even when you are on the go! The Sora app provides students and teachers with access to eBooks and audiobooks and includes over 100 titles in Spanish. The Sora app is available for free on iTunes and the app store. You can also find it in the Library Research Tools folder on LaunchPad. Holds for popular titles can be made through the Sora app (Spanish Version).

Sora's here. Check it out.

Select link below to find titles!

Grades K-6 eBooks & Audiobooks*

Grades 7-12 eBooks & Audiobooks*

*The content classification on Sora is determined by the publishers.

Thank you to our Summer Reading Celebration sponsor(s)!

  

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State Book Lists

The Florida Association for Media in Education (FAME) nominates 15 titles annually for students to read. Find three books on the lists that you want to read. Read 3 and be eligible to vote for your favorite in the spring!

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Suggestions for Parents from the Florida Department of Education

Just Read, Florida!

Strong parental involvement is a key component of the Just Read, Florida! initiative. Other than helping your children to grow up happy and healthy, the most important thing that you can do for them is help them develop their reading skills.

Find A Book

Find a Book

Florida's Education Commissioner and the Library Youth Program have created "Find a Book." Students can build customized reading lists based on their interests and reading abilities.