Childrens' books to take on vacation (Detroit Free Press)
Heading for the beach, hopping a plane to France or hitting the American road with your kids this summer? Some books to prep or pack: "Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach" (Kids Can Press, $15.95, ages 4-8), written and illustrated by Melanie Watt.

Live Oak Public Library offers books online (Savannah Morning News)
Start saying goodbye to those books on cassette. Savannah's Live Oak Public Libraries is making books available online.

Books Aimed At Struggling Readers (Carollwood News & Tribune)
Author Elise Leonard's books are written at a first-grade level, but her most avid fans are teenagers and adults.

Kids' books to take on the vacation trail (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Heading for the beach, hopping a plane to France or hitting the American road? Some books to prep or pack.

Kids' books to take along or read before hitting the road (The Alexandria Town Talk)
Heading for the beach, hopping a plane to France or hitting the American road with your kids this summer? Some books to prep or pack:

Johan Jaaffar: A paean to the old-fashioned creation... books (The New Straits Times)
WE are reading more, not less, but not reading books. We spend more time reading "materials" on the Internet. The good news is the Internet has rekindled a new interest in "reading". Interneters (I didn't coin that word, OK) spend hours surfing, hopping from one item to the next, jumping from one website to another with ease.

Jr. high students go head-to-head in annual Battle of the Books (Santa Maria Times)
About 125 junior high students from eight Santa Barbara County schools participated Friday in the annual Battle of Books competition.

Bookreporter.com -- Beach Bag of Books (Book Reporter)
It wouldn't be summer without sun, surf and sizzling reading. You supply the beach chair and the sunblock, and we'll provide the fantastic fiction in our Fourth Annual Beach Bag of Books feature and contests.

Review: Four new books on the first world war (Guardian Unlimited)
Despite being nearly a century away, we still see the first world war with the pain and the passion evident in four new books, writes Francis Beckett

CHP San Andreas area collects more than 160 books in children’s book drive (Calaveras Enterprise)
The seventh annual Cesar E. Chavez Children’s Book Drive at the San Andreas CHP was a great success for Calaveras County, collecting more 160 books.