September book group reads

Fiction
Diamond Willow (Frost)
Madapple (Meldrum)
Keeping Score (Park)
Trouble (Schmidt)

Nonfiction
Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West (Fleischman)


Depending on when the library gets these . . .
The Hunger Games (Collins)
The Porcupine Year (Erdrich)
Brooklyn Bridge (Hesse)
My One Hundred Adventures (Horvath)
Knife of Never Letting Go (Ness)
Wonder Bear (Nyeu)
Impossible (Werlin)

book group reads

Here is what my children's/young adult literature book group is reading for next month. We have a colleague currently chairing the Caldecott Committee so we are heavy into picture books.

Picture books
Night Running: How James Escaped with the Help of his Faithful Dog (Carbone)
Tadpole Rex (Cyrus)
Buffalo Music (Fern)
Twenty Heartbeats (Haseley)
Metal Man (Reynolds)
Little Blue Truck (Schertle)
Dog and Bear - Two's Company (Seeger)
The House in the Night (Swanson)
The Pigeon Wants a Puppy (Willems)

Fiction
My Dad's a Birdman (Almond)
The Underneath (Appelt)
Savvy (Law)

Graphic novels
Benny and Penny in Just Pretend (Hayes)

Nonfiction
Nic Bishop Frogs (Bishop)

I am reading The Underneath - and it's glorious. The writing sings and weeps and is so moving. It's too mature for E because of a very cruel adult center to the story but I look forward to sharing it with him when he's older.