Tag: coming of age
Inspection
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2019/10/04/inspection/
INSPECTION By Josh Malerman Del Rey, March 2019 Two schools. One starting out with 26 boys, the other with 26 girls. All being raised and educated from infancy with no knowledge or awareness of the opposite sex. J and his brothers are expected to...
Beach Reading and the Adult Summer Reading Code!
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2019/06/27/beach-reading-and-the-adult-summer-reading-code/
The Adult Summer Reading Code is: Penny For more information about our Summer Reading Programs for all ages, please click here. SURFSIDE SISTERS By Nancy Thayer “Having left Nantucket behind for the life of a successful novelist in New York City, why should Lara return?...
My Sunshine Away
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2015/08/22/my-sunshine-away/
Title: My Sunshine Away Author: M.O Walsh Publisher: Penguin, 2015 Summary/Review: I really enjoyed this book for a lot of reasons, I have to say the first is because it starts off with the act which is the foundation for the book. There is...
Help for the Haunted
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/10/31/help-for-the-haunted/
Title: Help for the Haunted Author: John Searles Publisher: William Morrow, Sep. 2013 Summary/Review: Since I am not a fan of ghost stories, I was reluctant to read a book titled “Help for the Haunted” for worry that I would not sleep afterward, but...
What Dies in Summer
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/04/03/what-dies-in-summer/
Title: What Dies in Summer Author: Tom Wright Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co, 2012 Summary/Review: This is a debut novel that is packed with so much emotion and surprises you won’t be able to put it down. The story is narrated by one of...
Canada
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/01/31/canada/
Title: Canada Author: Richard Ford Publisher: Ecco , May 2012 Summary/Review: Dell (the narrator) and Berner Parsons are ordinary fifteen year old twins living a somewhat isolated life with their parents in Montana circa 1956. Their father has failed at a number of ventures...
Age of Miracles
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2012/09/01/age-of-miracles/
Title: The Age of Miracles Author: Karen Thompson Walker Publisher: Random House, 2012 Summary/Review: Julia is only eleven years old when the earth’s rotation begins to slow. “The Slowing” as it comes to be called, adds minutes to the days and nights. Scientists have...
Room
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2010/10/15/room/
Title: Room Author: Emma Donoghue Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, September 2010 Summary: This is a raw, astonishing story of a boy and his mother who live as prisoners in a single, small room. It may be a reminder of headline grabbing kidnapping cases,...
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2010/05/13/saving-ceecee-honeycutt/
Title: Saving CeeCee Honeycutt Author: Beth Hoffman Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books, January 2010 Summary: Twelve year old CeeCee Honeycut is struggling to find normalcy in her chaotic life. Her mother is suffering from a mental illness and her father stays away from home as much as possible. Ceecee is left...
Stitches
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2009/09/17/stitches/
Title: Stitches Author: David Small Summary: David Small grew up in a cold house, with distant, nearly silent parents. He was born sickly – and as was par for the course at that time, his radiologist father gave him plenty of x-ray treatments to strengthen...