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Education votes determine the top 20 books for students and read list this summer in Shmoop's first-ever summer reading

Mountain view, CA (PRWEB) June 16, 2010

Shmoop (www.shmoop.com), a publisher of digital resources that makes learning fun and relevant for students, announced today its first summer reading list to read the ranks of the top twenty books for high school and middle school students over the summer. Books on Shmoop's summer reading list were nominated and of teachers and librarians, use the Shmoop learning guides matched to their students.

The twenty best books for summer 2010, to read, vote as of educators, are intended:

1. Hunger play by Suzanne Collins

2. The book thief by Markus Zusak

3. Catching fire, by Suzanne Collins

4. To a Nightingale by Harper Lee

5. Three cups of tea: one man's mission to promote Peace… One school at a time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

6. The Guernsey literary and potato Peel pie society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie barrows

7. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

8. The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie

9. Ender's game by Orson Scott card

10. The help of Kathryn Stockett

11. The count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

12. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

13. Graceling by Kristin Cashore

14. Relax by Neal Shusterman

15. Extremely loud and incredibly close by Jonathan SAFRAN Foer

16. Thirteen reasons why, by Jay Asher

17. The omnivore's dilemma: young reader's Edition, by Michael Pollan

18. Sarah's key by Tatiana de Rosnay

19. Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad

20. When you reach me by Rebecca stead

About Shmoop

Shmoop published digital assets, the learning fun and to make relevant for students. Shmoop content is written by master teachers and graduate students from Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley and other top universities. Shmoop learning guides and teacher resources balance a fun, accessible style with academically rigorous materials that help students understand how topics relate to your everyday life. Shmoop offers more than 3,000 titles on the Web, iPhone/iPad, Android mobile device, Kindle, nook and Sony Reader. Shmoop was an Official Honoree in the 2009 and 2010 Webby Awards and named "Best of the Internet" by PC Magazine. In the 2008 launched headquarters Shmoop is a Labradoodle patrolled Office in mountain view, California.

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