2024-2025 School Year Picture Books Sources are listed here. Chooch Helped illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz and written by Andrea L. Rogers Randolph Caldecott Medal “Sissy has a mischievous 2-year-old brother called Chooch—an affectionate nickname based on the Cherokee word for boy or son. No matter what the usdi (baby) does, he “just gets away […]
by Sally J Pla Format: Audiobook Genre: Literary Fiction, Middle Grade Primary Doorways: Character, Plot Sally J Pla’s award-winning middle grade novel, The Fire, The Water, and Maudie McGinn, left me radiating rage at various points. This level of emotion is a testament to Pla’s writing who balanced writing in the voice of a young […]
by Claire Vaye Watkins by Claire Vaye Watkins Format: ebook Primary Doorways: Character, Setting Genre: Autobiographical fiction Claire Vaye Watkin’s book I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness is like if the concept “The Biggest Shit in the Center of the Universe” wrote a book about itself. Following a fictionalized version of Claire, the book […]
by Zadie Smith Format: Physical Book Primary Doorways: Character Genre: Historical Fiction Read for: Revelations about being human While Mrs. Lewes only shows up once or twice in Zadie Smith’s novel, The Fraud, her most famous (?) novel, Middlemarch is abundantly present. Middlemarch is subtitled “the study of a provincial life” and Smith continues that […]
by Henry Hoke Format: Physical Book Primary Doorways: Language/Character Genre: Low Fantasy/Literary Fiction Read for: Poetic ambiance and unusual narrator Henry Hoke’s novel Open Throat was selected by Carly for the first Best Book Club Ever pick of 2024. Carly and Henry worked together at UVA’s young writer program and Henry was able to join […]
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