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We are over halfway through April and the library is knee deep in planning for summer. We are excited to share with you our plans for fun and learning this summer. Stay tuned to this space for all the details. I will also be visiting classrooms in May to encourage students to spend time this summer reading and learning.
I’m more than ready for things to begin to green up. I’m looking for books where the weather is nice and plants are growing. Here are a few of my favorites. I loved the Donna Bell series about Ladybug Farm. A gentle read in all three books about a group of women establishing a farm. The series starts with A Year on Ladybug Farm.
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters isn’t a light, quick read but it is hopeful and includes growing and learning. The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh isn’t light fluff, but it is beautiful, hopeful and centers on flowers and growing beautiful things.
All ages will enjoy Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett or The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. These are some of the few books that I reread fairly regularly. They are sweet, comforting and all about things growing, often in more ways than one.
Of course we have plenty of non-fiction about gardening whether vegetables, flowers, trees or creating a rain garden. Try the Blue Thumb Guide to Raingardens : design and installation for homeowners in the upper Midwest by Rusty Schmidt, Dan Shaw and David Dods. Explore succulents in Happy Cactus : cacti, succulents, and more edited by John Pilbeam. Or maybe you want to add a hobby to your life with The Creative Art of Bonsai by Isabelle and Remy Samson.
Celebrate the season of growth by reading whatever will help you grow and learn. Come borrow our books about coaching, about baseball, about hiking or climbing. Read fiction about people like you for affirmation, about people different than you to understand better.
If you prefer your fiction thrilling then we have plenty to offer as well. A quick glance at the new shelves resulted in the finding Our Secrets Were Safe by Virginia Trench takes place ten years after Sofia was killed. Caroline and Brooke have about reached their goals when they each start to receive threatening messages from “Sofia.”
“The week I shot a man clean through the head began like any other…” and so begins The Sunshine Man by Emma Stonex. This thriller is about a woman determined to avenge her sister’s murder and a killer confronting his own ghosts. Pick up the newest from Randy Wayne White Tomlinson’s Wake or Wilbur Smith’s Crossfire.
Historical fiction can be powerful, thrilling and full of tough decisions and that is certainly true of The Lies They Told by Ellen Marie Wiseman about a young woman seeking to give her daughter a better than she had.