Histories, memoir, historical fiction, Richard Scarry…. and serial killers?

Cheryl’s Books:   

Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange by Katie Goh

Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford



Mentioned:

Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh

The Digging-est Dog by Al Perkins (can be found in collection)

Summer Pony by Jean Slaughter Doty

Keeping Barney by Jessie Haas

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners





Jessica’s Books:  

The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue

The Black Utopians by Aaron Robertson

Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green



Links: 

Michigan Notables: https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/public/mnb

Foster Event: https://www.cadl.org/event/14379951



Mentioned:

Best Word Book Ever—Richard Scarry





Mari’s Books:   

The Pecan Sheller by Lupe Ruiz-Flores

Whale Eyes: A Memoir About Seeing and Being Seen by James Robinson

Watch his award-winning short film: https://www.whaleeyes.org/watch

The Couch in the Yard by Kate Hoefler



Mentioned: 

Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume





Our Producer, Rissa’s Books:   

Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath

Big Kids by Michael DeForge



Mentioned: 

Skippyjon Jones books by Judith Schachner

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka

Junie B. Jones books by Barbara Park

Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio





Some of books mentioned in response to CADL’s Facebook question “What story began your love of reading?”:



The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Babysitter’s Club by Ann M. Martin

Books by Madeleine L’Engle

The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore

The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve

The Valley of the Dolls by Jacquelinn Susann (available through MELCAT)