Children’s Books

Brooms Are For Flying

By Michael Rex

One Halloween, a little witch joins a group of young trick-or-treaters, and all participate in a wonderful foot-stomping, hand-clapping dance. But when the children take off their masks, they get a big surprise!

Adult Titles

And Then Comes Halloween

By Tom Brenner

A whimsical book that captures the joy of Halloween for both children and adults. It follows a little boy as he dreams about what he wants to be for Halloween, makes his costume and then goes out trick-or-treating.

Pumpkin Jack

By Will Hubbell

The first pumpkin Tim carved was fierce and funny, and he named it Jack. When Halloween was over and the pumpkin was beginning to rot, Tim set it out in the garden, and throughout the weeks, he watched it change. Spring brings a surprise.

Skeleton Hiccups

By Margery Cuyler

This is a fun look at the lengths to which a skeleton will go to cure his hiccups. For anyone who likes Halloween or just a good laugh.

The Graveyard Book

By Neil gaiman

This Newberry Award winner is the tale of a young boy whose family is murdered. He ends up living in the local graveyard, where the ghostly inhabitants adopt him and keep him safe.

Unbroken

By Laura Hillenbrand

The story of Louis Zamperini, a Depressionera juvenile delinquent who became an Olympic runner and, later, a World War II Army hero. Zamperini was captured by Japanese forces and spent the next several years as a prisoner of war. An inspirational true story of a man whose spirit did, indeed, remain unbroken.

Teacher Man

By Frank McCourt

In part three of the beautiful trilogy (preceded by Angela’s Ashes and ‘Tis), McCourt discusses his 30 years spent teaching in the New York City schools. Filled with warmth and fun, the memoir is full of creative examples of teaching assignments such as “write an excuse from Adam and Eve to God.”

The Help

By Kathryn Stockett

Young, white and newly-graduated, Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan returns to her early 1960s home in Mississippi and quickly becomes immersed in the lives of “The Help,” the African-American women who clean the houses and raise the children of the privileged white families.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

A delightful epistolary novel set in World War II, Guernsey tells the story of how the inhabitants of a tiny island off England’s coast gather hope from a most unlikely source – books – while under Nazi occupation.

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand

By Helen Simonson

Proper widower British

Major Pettigrew is trying to convince his relatives not to sell family heirlooms, but his arguments fall on deaf ears. Enter some romantic relief from an unlikely source: widowed Pakistani food shop owner Jasmina Ali.