Read This
0
Every month, Together Book Club facilitators recommend their top five favorite books. Here’s the complete list of what to read.
Lisa Esposito
February 2012 – The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
- Apothecary by Maile Meloy
- The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale by Carmen Agra Deedy
- My Name is Mina by David Almond
- Wildwood by Colin Meloy
- Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
***
Emily Provance
December/January 2011/12 – Waiting for Normal
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Bunker 10 by J.A. Henderson
- Actual Size by Steve Jenkins
- Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
***
Howard Whitehouse
November 2011 – The Graveyard Book
- The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
- Mortal Engines by Philip Reeves
- The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
- The Strictest School in the World by Howard Whitehouse
***
Evelyn Hanna
October 2011 – Return to Sender
- Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
- The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
- Willow Run by Patricia Reilly Giff
- On Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
***
Karen Witter
September 2011 – Everything on a Waffle
- Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
- The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt
- Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
- Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
- Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm
***
Kelly Chambala
August 2011– Hoot
- Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
- Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
- A Northern Light By Jennifer Donnelly
- Hitler Youth, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
***
Myrna Velez
June 2011 – When You Reach Me
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
- Kipling’s Choice by Geert Spillbeen
- A Step From Heaven by An Na
- Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
***
Sherri L. Smith
May 2011 – Fly Girl
- Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
- Newsgirl by Liza Ketcham
- Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
- Codetalker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War II by Joseph Bruchac
- Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones by Helen Hemphill
***
Evelyn Frank Hanna
April 2011 – Rules
- Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
- Three Lives to Live by Anne Lindbergh
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
- Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger by Louis Sachar
***
Karen Witter
March 2011 – Stargirl
- From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
- The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
***
Rita Owens
January/February 2011 – Hatchet
