MAMS Learning Commons
Summer Reading Logs
MAMS students who return their Summer Reading log to the Learning Commons in September will be entered into a raffle for a coupon for our Fall Book Fair!
Explore the 2026-2027 Maine Student Book Award (MSBA) Titles!
Local Library Information
Bowdoin – You can get a free library card at the Bowdoinham Public Library! You can also get a library card at the Topsham Public Library for $30/year (student price) or at Curtis Memorial Library for $75/year. Bring your receipts to the Bowdoin Town Office to get reimbursed for half the cost.
Bowdoinham – You can get a free library card at the Bowdoinham Public Library! You can also get a library card at the Topsham Public Library for $30/year (student price) or at Curtis Memorial Library for $75/year.
Harpswell – You can get a free library card at the Curtis Memorial Library, the Orr's Island Library, and the Cundy's Harbor Library! You can also get a library card at the Topsham Public Library for $30/year (student price).
Topsham – You can get a free library card at the Topsham Public Library and the Bowdoinham Public Library! You can also get a library card at Curtis Memorial Library for $75/year.
This information is also available in this linked PDF file.
MAMS Reading Resources
Destiny Follett MAMS Library Catalog
SORA Online Reading
SORA is a digital book collection accessible 24/7 via smartphone, tablet, or computer for all MAMS students.
Digital Maine Library
The Digital Maine Library provides every resident of Maine with access to online resources that include a collection of full text articles and abstracts from magazines, newspapers, journals and reference.
Maine State Library Digital Access
Did you know that all citizens of Maine are eligible for a library card from the Maine State Library? You can easily get a digital-only library card to access e-books and audiobooks on CloudLibrary. Use the link above, and choose option #1 when signing up.
Ms. Silverman's Bookshelf
Ms. Silverman's bookshelf
Graff returns to the world of her book Lost in the Sun to tell the story of Fallon Little who has a distinctive scar that bisects her face diagonally. The story behind the scar – and much deeper secrets – are slowly revealed as Fallon te...
In this sequel to Boy 2.0, Coal is learning how to use his superpower and starts doing favors for his foster family siblings, like retrieving a stolen pencil. When his favors start to become pranks, he draws the attention of a robot who ...
History of basketball from James Naismith to Michael Jordan to the rise of the WNBA told in short essays and beautiful paintings.
Anna sees ghosts. No really, she sees ghosts. When she dances with them and talks to them, her classmates and teachers are concerned because they do not see ghosts. Anna is an outcast with no friends and always in trouble with her teache...
Australian Chadderton shares the story of her life growing up with her parents and autistic brother. Life with brother Rob was chaotic but Gina’s family handled things with love and support for Rob. They found clever hacks to keep Rob sa...
Lucas Davenport and daughter Letty Davenport are faced with the possibility of another pandemic in the post-Covid world. Will they be able to stop the scientist who believes the only way to save the planet is by cutting the human populat...
Stella is excited to start 5th grade with her two BFFs. Unfortunately, 5th grade involves a lot of reading. A lot of reading. Stella falls further and further behind as she struggles to read as fast as her peers. With the help teachers, ...
Sidney’s goal is to be president of their school’s queer alliance club but when archnemesis Forrest is elected co-president with Sidney, Sidney is devastated. Can they figure out how to work together?
Nathan is hyper-observant and sees miniscule details that most people miss. He calls this ability his “I-sight.” His father works on top of a giant landfill directly across the street from his house and Nathan starts to notice small chan...
Picture book memoir of the author's struggle to learn to read. Clever illustrations built around words -- lots of words!
Biography of famed fiber artist Judith Scott told by her twin sister. Judith Scott spent many years institutionalized as a person with Down Syndrome. Her sister worked hard to become her guardian and get her out. She introduced Judith to...
A beautiful story showing a mother celebrating her autistic child.
A joyous picture book about the many wonderful qualities of a neurodiverse brain.
Younger brother Benji usually has the bad days but Sammy has a bad day, Benji comes to the rescue helping Sammy with his "blanket burrito" and empathy.
Gao Sheng loves her Laos mountain home but when the communist government takes over after the Vietnam War, she and her extended Hmong family must flee to Thailand where they endure the harsh conditions of refugee camps for a year before ...
Colette (19 years old) yearns to break free from her family and experience the world. Her mother, sister, and brother all work to help support the household but because Colette was frail as a child, her mother keeps her at home. One day ...
Will spends a lot of time at the historic Graceland cemetery in Chicago with his mom who works there as a cemeterian (one who runs a cemetery and studies the history of the cemetery). He loves Graceland and feels at home there until the ...
Valentine, daughter of immigrants who want her to be successful land a good job, seems to be the only one who remembers her older sister even exists. When Valentine sets off to find her missing sister, she is trapped in a bottle (in the ...
Willa dreams of being a mail carrier but when she is accused of stealing mail and everyone assumes she is the mail-stealing bandit Two Gum Tilly, she runs away. She ends up with a group of runaways – the Gumshoe Gang – living out of a ma...
Raven Gallows, future forensic scientist/mortician, leads her Truth Trackers investigative team to solve a new mystery after the discovery of a mysterious box at a dig just outside of town. More family secrets are revealed in this instal...
