Quaker Summers

May 2017: Quaker Summers

Fourth Annual Student Voices Project
• Reading List for President Trump
• Participants List

Counselor Orientation ’99 by Pete Dybdahl
The Shape We Take by Dyresha Harris
Traversing a State of Truth by John Andrew Gallery
Sweet Ol’ Camp Tunes by Kyle Weinman
A Quaker on a Commune by Hayley Hathaway
A Young Friends Bookshelf

Online Features

A Quaker on a Commune

A Friend finds inspiration while visiting a long-standing intentional community. Hayley Hathaway
Online Features

Sweet Ol’ Camp Tunes

The sound of guitars, pianos, and voices of camp. Kyle Weinman
Quaker Book Reviews

Pond

By Jim LaMarche. Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2016. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8. Pond is a…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Tom and Sandy Farley

Quaker Book Reviews

Be the Change: A Grandfather Gandhi Story

By Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus, illustrated by Evan Turk. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2016. 48 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $5.99/eBook.…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Lisa Rand

Quaker Book Reviews

Du Iz Tak?

By Carson Ellis. Candlewick Press, 2016. 48 pages. $16.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages 4–8. On the opening pages of Du Iz…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Margaret T. Walden

Quaker Book Reviews

The Storyteller

By Evan Turk. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2016. 48 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $4.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8. Occasionally a book…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Katie Green

Quaker Book Reviews

The Sound of Silence

By Katrina Goldsaito, illustrated by Julia Kuo. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2016. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Alison James

Quaker Book Reviews

A Bike Like Sergio’s

By Maribeth Boelts, illustrated by Noah Z. Jones. Candlewick Press, 2016. 40 pages. $15.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages 5–8. This is…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Dee Birch Cameron

Quaker Book Reviews

A Year of Borrowed Men

By Michelle Barker, illustrated by Renne Benoit. Pajama Press, 2015. 40 pages. $18.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 6–9. As a child…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Margaret Crompton

Quaker Book Reviews

Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey

By Margriet Ruurs, translated by Falah Raheem, illustrated by Nizar Ali Badr. Orca Book Publishers, 2016. 28 pages. $20/hardcover; $9.99/eBook.…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Diya Abdo

Quaker Book Reviews

Somos como las nubes / We Are Like the Clouds

By Jorge Argueta, illustrated by Alfonso Ruano. Groundwood Books, 2016. 36 pages. $18.95/hardcover; $16.95/PDF. Recommended for ages 7–12. A book…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

Quaker Book Reviews

Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story

By Nora Raleigh Baskin. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2016. 208 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $7.99/paperback (released May 16, 2017); $10.99/eBook. Recommended…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Lucinda Hathaway

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