Book Suggestions for July - November

[Ursula Gruber]

Here's the 2013 list of suggestions.  Any more before I set up the next survey?

*Someone suggested Betsy/Tacy books, so I picked the one where they are 12.  It's the last book with both Betsy and Tacy in the title.

Also, there were a few books mentioned at the last meeting that sounded very odd and neat.

From Karen:

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Per Wikipedia:   The novel is presented as a 999-line poem titled "Pale Fire", written by the fictional John Shade, with a foreword and lengthy commentary by a neighbor and academic colleague of the poet, Charles Kinbote.

From Kathy:

The Life And Opinions Of the Tomcat Murr by ETA Hoffman

Per Wikipedia:   Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler

Older Books

Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

Huck Finn by Mark Twain

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C Wrede

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara

The Hobbitt by JRR Tolkein

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown by Maud Hart Lovelace

Newer Books

How to Save a Life Sara Zarr

An Off Year Claire Zulkey

Eleanor and Park Rainbow Rowell

The Night Tourist Katherine Marsh

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

The Big Crunch by Pete Hautman

Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan

Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Dairy Queen by Catherine murdock

Stolen by Lucy Christopher

Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Leviathan by Scott Westerfield

Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

Silence by Michelle Sagara

Angelfall by Susan Ee

[Elizabeth Lund]

I was the one who suggested the Betsy-Tacy books, and I think Downtown is a good one to vote on. That's my favorite of the "little girl" books, and the high school ones, though I prefer them, can get a bit confusing if you don't already know the characters. Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown has the most satisfying library visit in all of literature!

- Elizabeth

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[Kathy Schoerner]

Were we still going to do a Halloween book for October?