Librarian's Picks: Books to Read the Week of August 27

Keena Ford and the Second Grade Mix Up
by Melissa Thomson

The teacher brought a delicious chocolate cake to school to celebrate Keena’s birthday, but there is a BIG problem. It isn’t really her birthday!

Call Number: J FICTION THO
Grades: 2 - 4.

Eighth Grade Superzero
by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

What if you threw up on the first day of 8th grade? Would your new nickname be Pukey and ruin all chances of a social life forever? Maybe. But as Reggie finds out, there is more to life than middle school. And, who knows, you might even end up being Class President!

Call Number: TEEN FICTION RHU
Grades: 7 - 9.

Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
by Deborah Rodriguez

American Deborah Rodriguez uses her skills as a hairdresser to open a beauty school in Afghanistan, providing the Afghani women with both a place of refuge and the skills to be independent.

Call Number: TEEN 305.48697 ROD
Grades: 9 - 12. 

Heartbroken
by Lisa Unger

Part family saga, part nerve-wracking suspense, much of Heartbroken takes place on a secluded Adirondack island, where family matriarch Birdie Burke (a hard, unwelcoming woman) has been seeing a mysterious figure in the days before her adult children are due to arrive for a family vacation, families in tow. Circumstances (and outsiders), however, intervene, and what promises to be a challenging "vacation" for a dysfunctional family instead becomes a nightmare. 

Call Number: FICTION UNG
Section: Adult Fiction

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