Books for Children:

~Picture Books~
I Love You The Purplest, Barbara Joose
The Whale's Song, Sheldon and Blythe
The Raft, Jim LaMarche
Miss Rumphius, Barbara Cooney
The Salamander Room, Anne Mazer
Rotten Teeth, Laura Simms
First Delights, Tasha Tudor
Dreamstones, Maxine Trottier
Zachary's Ball, Matt Tavares
The Rainbabies, Laura Krauss Melmed

~Chapter Books~
Walt Whitman: Words for America, Kerley & Selznick
Farmer Boy, Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Penderwicks, Jeanne Birdsall
Because of Winn Dixie, Kate DiCamillo
The Midnight Fox, Betsy Byars
Peter Pan, James Barrie
Crow and Weasel, Barry Lopez
The Cricket In Times Square, George Selden
The Legend of Spud Murphy, Eoin Colfer

Books for Adults:

The Known World, Edward P. Jones
Ten Little Indians, Sherman Alexi
The Miracle Life Of Edgar Mint, Brady Udall
Mitten Strings for God, Katrina Kenison
Women Clothed with the Sun, Dana Littlepage Smith
My Antonia, Willa Cather
Fall On Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Last Report of the Miracles
of Little No Horse, Louise Erdich
Five Quarters of the Orange, Joanne Harris
The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by E.C. Latham
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The Living, Annie Dillard

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