Favorites

Favorite books for children and adolescents:

The BFG by Roald Dahl
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
Boris and Bella by Carolyn Crimi

Favorite books for adult readers:

The Coal Tattoo by Silas House
Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Evidence of Things Unseen by Maryanne Wiggins
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

Favorite essay collections:

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral by Barbara Kingsolver
Telling Time by Nancy Willard
Take Joy by Jane Yolen
A Private History of Awe by Scott Russell Sanders
Burning Down the House by Charles Baxter
The Flexible Lyric by Ellen Bryant Voigt

Recent Reads:

Moon Over Manifest

Keeper by Kathy Appelt

Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan

The Last Campaign by Thurston Clarke