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Readers are rebels and rats wear coats [April Reading Challenge]

Readers are rebels and rats wear coats [April Reading Challenge]

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Russell, Rachel, and Rachael discuss our April challenge, childhood favorites, with one of our favorite childhood experts here in the library, Jess McAllister. We discuss how children's literature shaped us, opened our worlds, and continues to delight us to this day!

Books we discuss include:

  • “The Borrowers” by Mary Norton
  • “The BFG” by Roald Dahl
  • “Dear Mr. Henshaw” and “Strider” by Beverly Cleary
  • “Freckle Juice” by Judy Blume
  • “The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise” by Dan Gemeinhart
  • “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton
  • “Amos Fortune: Free Man” by Elizabeth Yates
  • “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • “Grandpa’s Mountain” by Carolyn Reeder
  • Wayside School” series by Louis Sachar
  • “My Teacher Is an Alien” by Bruce Coville
  • “Dog Man” series by Dav Pilkey
  • “My Weird School” series by Dan Gutman
  • “Frog and Toad Are Doing Their Best” by Jennie Egerdie
  • “The World of Beatrix Potter” series by Beatrix Potter
  • “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame
  • “Artemis Fowl” by Eoin Colfer
  • Everything by Alan Gratz
  • “The Complete Brambly Hedge” by Jill Barklem
  • “The Mysterious Benedict Society” by Trenton Lee Stuart

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