Arts & Entertainment
Patch Picks: National Read Across America Day
This month's top picks from the staff at the Gilroy Public Library include some intriguing choices for adults and teens.
Head librarian Lani Yoshimura and the staff at the recommend five great reads this month:
- Wolf Hall. Winner of this year's Man Booker Prize, Hilary Mantel's novel paints a compelling fictional account of the court of King Henry VIII.
- Fatherland. This best-selling thriller by Robert Harris is an "alternate-history novel," exploring what Germany might have looked like if the Nazis had won World War II.
- Edgar Allen’s Official Crime Investigation Notebook. From Mary Amato, writer of the much-loved young adult novel, The Naked Mole Rat Letters, this humorous story follows Edgar Allen as he tries to catch a thief in Ms. Hershel's fifth-grade classroom.
- The Dreamer. For readers from grades four through nine, this gorgeously written fictional biography by Pam Munoz Ryan tells how a young Pablo Neruda sees, feels, and hears poetry in everyday life.
- You. Even the most reluctant teen reader will be pulled in by Charles Benoit's debut novel, a stunning story about Kyle, a "hoodie" kid who sits in the back of the room, zoned out, until new kid Zack arrives and sets a tragedy in motion. For grades eight and up.
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