The Lotterys Plus One By Emma Donoghue I loved reading this book! The Lotterys are a very unusual family that leads a utopian family life. They have two moms and two dads and seven children, some of whom are biological children, some of whom are adopted. This very lucky family won the lottery and as […]
Station Eleven By Emily St. John Mandel A famous actor has a heart attack on stage as he performs King Lear; a paramedic-in-training jumps out of the audience to perform CPR; and a 7-year-old actress watches her mentor pass away. Outside the theatre, snow is falling, and a deadly flu is quickly spreading across the […]
York: The Shadow Cipher By Laura Ruby The first thing that will strike you about this book is its cover. It’s the city of New York but in an astounding alternate universe where machines transform themselves and seem almost alive; where the subway (called the Underway) goes both above and below ground and zings riders […]
Miss EmilyBy Nuala O’Connor “Oh, chimerical, perplexing, beautiful words! I love to use the pretty ones like blades and the ugly ones to console. I use dark ones to illuminate and bright ones to mourn. And when I feel as if a tomahawk has scalped me, I know it is poetry then and I leave […]
GenesisBy Helen Dennis When a boy washes up on the shore of the Thames – alive, but barely – Londoners want to know who he is and what he was doing in the river. But the boy has no memory of anything and doesn’t even know his own name. No one comes forward to claim […]
The Princess In Black By Shannon Hale and Dean Hale Illustrated by LeUyen Pham Princess Magnolia is prim and proper, as a princess should be. She wears frilly pink dresses and takes tea with duchesses and never gets her hands dirty. But Princess Magnolia has a secret: when the monster alarm rings, she knows she […]
History of Wolves History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund Told through the perspective of 14 year old Linda/Madeline, History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund is an incredible first novel filled with emotion, power and depth exploring Linda’s coming of age in a remote community in the northeastern US. Linda lives in a shack on the […]
The Incredible Journey By Sheila Burnford We just unpacked new copies of this classic. If you are looking for an award winning adventure story The Incredible Journey is for you! Three unlikely friends; two dogs and a cat, need to get back to their owner and family they love. The three animals are put to […]
by Elaine Vickers A wise librarian nurtures friendship between three ten-year-old girls experiencing significant changes in their young lives. Grace’s best friend has moved away and now she cannot find the ability to speak. Jada has just moved to Salt Lake City with her father because of his new teaching job. Malia’s mother is in the […]
Mighty JackBy Ben Hatke Mighty Jack is a modern interpretation of Jack and the Beanstalk. You might call it a fractured fairy tale transformed into a graphic novel. Jack has been left in charge of his autistic sister Maddy for the summer. Of course, his mom has to work, but Jack doesn’t want the responsibility. […]