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In celebration of Read Across America Day, Marple Public Library suggests five books for both adults and children.
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This week, Marple Newtown Patch is helping you gear up for Read Across America Day. It is the National Education Association’s reading celebration, which takes place each year on, or near, March 2, the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Across the country, thousands of libraries, schools and community centers participate by bringing together kids, teens, adults, and books. Marple Newtown Patch asked a local librarian for suggestions to lead you to the perfect read.
Jennifer Stock, the assistant director at Marple Public Library, suggests a few of her favorite books.
For Adults
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran
The Paris Wife: A Novel by Paula McLain
The Sherlockian by Graham Moore
For Kids
Spring is Here! by Will Hillenbrand
Dino-Baseball by Lisa Wheeler
Do you have a suggestion for a good book you or your children have read?
Tell us in the comments.
Deborah Lillard
7:35 am on Tuesday, March 1, 2011
If you are like millions of Americans, each year you resolve to get organized in some part of your life. I have 2 books that I believe can help: Absolutely Organized - A Mom's Guide to a No-Stress Schedule & Clutter Free Home, and Absolutely Organize Your Family. In each book I identify a common problem for parents, tell a related story and offer a few solutions. The solutions are not just products, but processes and systems. As your children get older it's important to teach them organizing skills to get their schoolwork done on time, and manage their own stuff and schedules. That's the focus of Absolutely Organize Your Family. Both are easy to read, colorful and practical reference books. Ihope you check them out!
Bretany Pilko
10:39 am on Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Here are some of my favorite books I have read with book club and on the side:
Snow Flower and The Secret Fan
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Glass Castle
The Road
Loving Frank
The Devil in the White City
The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (the whole trilogy is amazing!)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society
The Middle Place
Shutter Island
The Help
The Red Tent
Cutting For Stone
The Hunger Games trilogy
The Book Thief