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Suggested Reading
ADULT FICTION BOOKS: all relatively new and highly recommended.
- The Book of Negroes: Lawrence Hill
- March, by Geraldine Brooks
- The Golden Tulip: Rosalin Laker
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khalded Hosseini
- Jubilee Trail: Gwen Bristow
- To Hear a Nightingale: Charlotte Bingham
- Mudbound: Hillary Jordan
- The Host: Stephenie Meyer
- The Cleft: Doris Lessing
- The Cellist of Sarajevo: Steven Galoway
ADULT NON_FICTION BOOKS: again relatively new and recommended.
- In Praise of Slow: Carl Honore
- Nine Parts of Desire: Geraldine Brooks
- It's All Too Much: an easy plan for living a richer life: Peter Walsh
- Audition: Barbara Walters
- Last Child in The Woods: saving our children from nature deficit disorder: Richard Louv
- The Last Lecture: Randy Pausch
- Infidel: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- The Leisure Economy: how changing demographics, economics, and generational attitudes will reshape our lives and industries: Elizabeth Nazareth
- The Bin Ladens: an Arabian family in an American Century: Steve Coll
CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS
PICTURE BOOKS
- The Blue Hippopotamus: Phoebe Gilman
- The Big Dark: John Prater
- Eliza and the Moonchild: Emma Chichester Clark
- I Saw an Ant on the Railroad Track: Joshua Prince
BOARD BOOKS
- Ready for Summer: Martha Jocelyn
- Ready for Spring: Martha Jocelyn
- Ready for Fall: Martha Jocelyn
- Ready for Winter: Martha Jocelyn
JUVENILE FICTION
- Escaping the Giant Wave: Peg Kehret
- Saving Lilly: Peg Kehret
- Hannah Montana: several chapter books based on the hit TV series
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
- McDonald Hall Series: Gordon Korman
- Lightning and Blackberries: Joanne K. Jefferson
- Looking for Lucy Buick: Rita Murphy
- Elijah of Buxton: Christopher Paul Curtis
- Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer. be sure to check these out — soon to be released as a blockbuster movie!
- Listen! Stephanie S. Tolan
JUVENILE NON FICTION
- Jessica's X-Ray: Pat Zonta
- Changes in You and Me! Paulette Bourgeois, a book about puberty mostly for boys
- Changes in You and Me! Paulette Bourgeois, a book about puberty mostly for girls
- Living the Dream — The Unofficial Story of Hannah Montana: Susan Janic
- Canada in Colours: Per-Henrik Gurth
- Canada 1 2 3: Per-Henrik Gurth
- Desperate Glory — The Story of WW 1: John Wilson
- The Daring Book for Girls: Miriam Peskowitz and Andrea J. Buchanan
GRAPHIC NOVELS
- Pendragon: D. J. McHale
- Dinobots: Transformers Comic Books