Kyle Recommends

I highly suggest reading a book at the same time with one of your friends; we have two copies of many of our new books, and more than that of some!


Here are some of the books in the American Corner that I have really enjoyed reading:
(links go to Amazon.com if you want to read a plot summary or other people's reviews of the book)


New Books! behind the tables on the long wall

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Hatchet by Gary Pulsen

A Series of Unfortunate Events by LEmony Snicket

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Holes by Louis Sachar

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babitt

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater (x6)

Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi

Tale of Desperaux by Kate Di Camillo*

Dear America: A Journey to theNew World by Kathryn Lasky

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne (also on Kindle)

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White*

The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White

Many books by Judy Blume

*we have a movie of this book!

Books in the Fiction section on the back wall:

Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner 

Harry Potter (1-7) by J.K. Rowling*

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Percy Jackson & theOlympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

The Watsons Go to Birmingham,1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

Hope was Here by Joan Bauer

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Very Advanced/Classic:

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

If you want to read with others, here are some books that we have many copies of:

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (x5)

The Adventures of HuckleberryFinn by Mark Twain  (x16)

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (x10)

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (x10)