The Lake County Library System proudly announces a new year for the county wide reading initiative, Lake County Reads! Lake County residents can participate in a local “One Book” program. “One Book" projects, community-wide reading programs, were begun by the Washington Center for the Book in 1998. They are being introduced across the U.S.A. and around the world.

Be sure to check out these books. The authors visited Lake County during the 2007 Festival of Reading in March!

Adult readers

Bermuda Schwartz
by Bob Morris

All of Bob's books are fantastic reads, but we have decided to that we will give his latest a try. Discussion groups can include all his works for lively conversation! Bermuda Schwartz will be out in February 2007.

Books available now, are Bahamara, Jamaica Me Dead, and more!

For information about Bob, visit www.bobmorris.net.

Young Adult Readers

Sister Spider Knows All
by Adrian Fogelin

For Twelve-Year oldf Roxanne, there are two things in life she can count on: her beloved grandmother, Mimi, and her weekend job at the flea market where she helps Mimi buy and sell fresh produce and other people's junk to pay the household bills. This is her home and the people she knows and loves are here. But outside this fragile weekend world, she's lost. A so-so student with few aspirations for higher education, she feels out of place at school. When Roxanne discovers her mother's teenage diary, she finds some painful but important answers to the unsolved questions of her past and the possibilities for a different future. With gentle wit and an uncanny sensitivity, author Adrian Fogelin captures the fragility of life's certainties in this moving novel of an adolescent girl's struggles to find her way in the world.

Adrian Fogelin is the author of The Big Nothing, My Brother's Hero, Anna Casey's Place In The World, and Crossing Jordan, which was named an ALA Best Books for Young Adults; a VOYA Top Shelf for Middle School Readers; and an Honor Book, IRA Notable Books for a Global Society. Fogelin lives with her husband in Tallahassee, Florida.

For more information about Adrian and her books, visit www.adrianfogelin.com

Youth Readers

There's a frog trapped in the bathroomby Susan E. Snyder, Rhyming Writer

Illustrated by a teenage girl and inspired by a true story, this charming and rhyming story captures the antics that ensue when a frog gets trapped in a girl's school bathroom. Girls scream and run as the frog swims in the sink, climbs on walls, and looks in the mirror. A surprise occurs on the last page when the girls discover something even more disgusting—a spider. Visually appealing and fun, the rhyme scheme is perfect for beginning readers.

Susan E. Snyder is a licensed occupational therapy assistant in the Florida school system. She is the coauthor of the phonics program "Singing for Reading Meaning" and the author of The Very Stubborn Centipede and Shivers and Shakes.

For more about Susan and her books, visit www.susanesnyder.com.