Top Reads

Book Picks:

Here are recommendations from Laura Henry, young readers manager for the Palos Verdes Library District. 

• "The Elephant and Piggie" Series by Mo Willems. This is a funny Beginning Reader series.

• "The Rough Face Girl" by Rafe Martin. A touching Cinderella tale from the Northeast Native Americans.

• "The Seals on the Bus" by Lenny Hort. A silly song based on "The Wheels on the Bus."

• "The Lost Hero" by Rick Riordan. Exciting start of a new series by the author of "Percy Jackson."

• "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton. Great book for teens, exciting sad and hopeful!

More recommendations from Palos Verdes Library District director and librarians, sent in by Debra Petersen, adult services assistant manager for the library district.

• "The Postmistress" by Sarah Blake. The stories of a small Cape Cod postmistress and an American radio reporter stationed in London collide on the eve of the United State’s entrance into World War II, a meeting that is shaped by a broken promise to deliver a letter.

• "Out Stealing Horses" by Per Petterson. After a meeting with his only neighbor, sixty-seven-year-old Trond is forced to reflect upon a long-ago incident that marks the beginning of a series of losses for Trond and his childhood friend, Jon.

• "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole. A New Orleans misanthrope, who rebukes society, gets a job at his mother's urging but ends up leading a worker's revolt.

• "Holy Land" by D. J. Waldie. The author describes life in the blue-collar town of Lakewood, California in the 1950s, and how the character of suburbia influenced his development.

• "The Book of Lost Things" by John Connolly. Taking refuge in fairy tales after the loss of his mother, twelve-year-old David finds himself violently propelled into an imaginary land in which the boundaries of fantasy and reality are disturbingly melded.