Observing the end of summer

There are ways of telling when summer comes to an end. The light shifts, for one. Not just the length of daylight but the quality of light, especially at sunset, has a different cast to it. I grew up with a great appreciate of winter over summer. But these days I am more of a fan of summer than winter. And so it is that the ending of summer brings a slight wistfulness for the perfect summer day. We had very few of those summer days. Before I get all nostalgic about summer let me make my point of end of summer observations: you know summer is coming to a close when students come in to pick up their summer reading requirements!

What is required this summer?

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
A Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
... among many others.