All year long, we LOVE ♥ to get recommendations from our readers!

During the Summer Reading program, kids listed their favorite book titles on a poster in the library.  Some titles they mentioned were:

• The Lion Who Stole My Arm
• Magic Tree House
• Pig the Fibber
• Rapunzel’s Revenge
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Usborne edition!)
• I Can Do It!

The poster still has room on it if anyone drops by & wants to add a title! 😉

Our Young Adult and Adult readers were challenged to include 7-word book summaries or quotes from the books they read.  Following are some of the titles that they enjoyed, and you might, too! 🙂

• One YA reader LOVED:  A Night Divided (read in school), now reading the follow up- Words on Fire. Jennifer A Nielsen
• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate. This is a story of greed. But it’s also a story about love and family.  “A woman’s past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune she must only stop talking.”
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.  “Kya, I need to know that the running and hiding are over.  That you can love without being afraid.”
• The Woman at the Window by A.J. Finn.  Neighbor watching agoraphobe witnesses a crime, right?
• Beloved by Toni Morrison. “Definitions belong to the definers, Not the defined.”
•  A Slip of a Girl by Patricia Reilly Giff – Good story of Ireland’s poor people. Intriguing.
• Two Old Women by Velma Wallis.  “Let us die trying.”
• Walk to Beautiful by Jimmy Wayne. Pg. 369 “When circumstances drag on you, weighing you down to the point you think you can’t take another step, muster your courage, stay strong; keep walking.”
• Coconut Layer Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke. Solve a murder over plates of cookies.
• The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley.  Pleiades inspired historical romance of adopted sisters. (NOTE: Many readers mentioned this engrossing series by Riley!)
• An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff. People of different classes can become friends.
• The Buffalo Creek Disaster by Gerald M Stern. Coal disaster survivors win suit against investors.
• Cottage by the Sea by Debbie Macomber. Pg 570 “Annie tilted back her head and looked toward the sky, and just for an instant she was convinced she could feel her parent’s presence, peeking through the clouds, smiling down on her.”
• Bear Town by Fredrick Backman. There are more important things than sports.
• Picnic in Someday Valley by Jodi Thomas. A fun easy read that will leave a smile on your face.
• Do No Harm by Christina McDonald. “No one action defines us- it’s the journey that determines if we’re a good person or not.”
• Some other books participants enjoyed were: Percy Jackson stories, The Children’s Blizzard, The Heiress, The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop, Allergic (graphic novel), Prairie Bachelor, Maggie’s Miracle, Under the Southern Sky,  Western books, children’s bedtime books 🙂 and Sooley, the newest Grisham book in our collection.

“Thanks” to all participants on this unofficial Readers’ Advisory board!  

Now, to decide what to read NEXT!….