Book Recommendations
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Book Recs
Junior Edition #41
Celia McGee
Featuring books by Matt Stine and Elisabeth Weinberg, Dora M. Mitchell, Marisha Pessl, and Meghan MacLean Weir!
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
Bonnie Nadzam on a Biography of Helen Keller
Bonnie Nadzam
Maybe it’s instructive that I more or less recall the book but not the exact title or author of the book. It was a YA biography of Helen Keller...
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
Abol Tabol and the Bengali Language
Anuradha Roy
Before I could read, I was read to, and there was only one book that was read aloud in our house. I am four years old. Then five, then six, seven
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
Louisa May Alcott and James Joyce
Sara Paretsky
I can’t remember the first books I read, although I do remember the first words I wasn’t able to sound out: “city” and “Penelope
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Nunez
I grew up in colonial Trinidad, my education similar to that of a British public school, excellent, but clearly intended to reinforce the superiority...
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
On John Lennon
Elizabeth McKenzie
Two of the first books that made me a reader were In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works by John Lennon
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Book RecsAuthor Picks
Constant Cravings
Jennifer Haigh
The author of Heat and Light, suggests seven books about addiction.
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Book RecsJunior Edition
Junior Edition #40
Celia McGee
Featuring books by Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, Jess Butterworth, Sophie Cameron, and Tim Wynne-Jones!
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
The Phantom Tollbooth
James Hannaham
When I read The Phantom Tollbooth, at approximately age nine or so, it had some kind of bizarre cathartic effect on me
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Book RecsAuthor Picks
Thieves of Language
Domnica Radulescu
The author of Country of Red Azaleas presents this list of recommended reading focused on women’s journeys, voices, and visions.
