Vacation Reading: 2022

Share your reading!

• Tag your Book Selfies with #GeckosRead or email your pics to Ms. Fannie (flee@sis.org.cn)
• Follow us on Instagram @GeckosBookstagram to see everyone's posts

• Collect stickers for Geckos Read titles you finish!

To collect the "100" sticker, read any of the Top 100 Middle or high school books!

Printable Lists

• All "Geckos Read" Books for 2021-2022 
  • Includes Genre Stars, Panda Books, and Battle of the Books
• Top 100 Middle School in our library
• Top 100 High School in our library
• Outstanding Books for the College-Bound (various categories)

E-Book Collections in Sora

• Yay for YA! (Popular young adult books)
• Most popular Sora books at our school
• Recent Audiobooks
• "Always Available" Classics
• Social-Emotional Fiction & Nonfiction
• What Makes Us Different, Makes Us Stronger

Type what you are looking for and click title, keyword, etc.
A new window will open with our catalog results. 

Check out next year's "Genre Stars"

Genre Stars are highly recommended new or classic books in each fiction genre

Many are available NOW in Sora and will all be in our library in August! Printable list HERE

How many will YOU read?

Our BoB program will continue next year! Read these in Sora over vacation. They'll be in our library in August. Full list HERE

Every year, school librarians in China create a list of recommended books. Read them in Sora now or in the library in August. Print the full list HERE

Vote for your favorites in April 2023!

20-21 Panda Nominees in our library or Sora

Middle School

High School & Up

These books in Sora are great to read with a group of friends because they're ALWAYS available!

• Click to see the full list of 29 titles.
• Open recommended titles in Sora, below

Get two free audiobooks each week in Sora via "Sync Audiofile"

See the full season (you can only access titles posted AFTER you sign up, so sign up fast!)

Directions:

• Register for SYNC with your email address
• Go to your SORA account > choose "Add Library"
• Search for audiobooksync > sign in with the email you used to register for SYNC
• Toggle between our library and SYNC to read or listen, all vacation long!

Need help? See the FAQs HERE

Search for: Pearl River Delta
Choose: Shekou International School
Login: SIS username (beginning of email)

Download the app HERE. Get help HERE

• Book Concierge, via National Public Radio (USA)

• Best of 2020, via Powell's Bookstore, also see nonfiction and other lists (USA)

• Best of 2020, via The Guardian (UK)

• The Better Reading Top 100, via Better Reading (Australia)

• Global Literature in Libraries Initiative, various lists, podcasts, and resources