"Blue Lake Days" by Sarah Shey

This book was written by an author who spent many summers at Lake Okoboji, Iowa. It tells of a girl who goes on vacation with her family to a lake where she swims, goes on boat rides, visits the candy store, watches a play, sends postcards to her friends, rides on a rollercoaster, and eats at a fish fry. These are all activities that many children do with their families during the summer. Trips to lakes and eating at fish frys are activities that many children would be able to relate to. I like this book because I have been on many lake trips over the summer with my family and I liked thinking back to many of my memories that I have while boating and swimming at each of the lakes that I have been to. This book would be interesting to read near the end of the school year when students are getting excited for vacations and activities that they are going to do during the summer. It could be read to the students then they could write in journals about what they are going to do over the summer.