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Summer is here! As you spend the gorgeous days relaxing by the lake, consider a summer read, recommended by one of your church family friends. Children 1st – 3rd Grade: Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson and Sean Qualls (suggested by Katie Nederhoed, Librarian at Bonner School) Finding Winnie by Lindsay Mattick and Sophie Blackall (suggested by Katie Nederhoed) Circus Dogs of Prague by Rachelle Delaney (suggested by Katie Nederhoed) Children 4th – 6th Grade: Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan (suggested by Katie Nederhoed) Fish in a Tree by Linda Mullaly Hunt (suggested by Katie Nederhoed) The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (suggested by Katie Nederhoed) Pax by Sara Pennypacker (suggested by Katie Nederhoed) Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (suggested by Katie Nederhoed) Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower by Greg Pizzoli (suggested by Katie Nederhoed) Middle School 6 grade+

Apothecary by Maile Meloy (suggested by Liezel Strohmaier)

The Thing about Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin (suggested by Katie Nederhoed)

Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans by Don Brown (suggested by Katie Nederhoed) All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely (suggested by Katie Nederhoed) Adult Non-Fiction: A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter (suggested by Helen Matveyeff) Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (suggested by Robin Kent, Judy Parock) Grounded: Finding God in the World—A Spiritual Revolution by Diana Butler Bass (suggested by Gretchen Strohmaier) High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never by Barbara Kingsolver (suggested by Helen Matveyeff) The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell (suggested by Myrna Chaney) The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathon Haight (suggested by Anita Rognas) Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr. (suggested by Anita Rognas) Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History by Thomas Norman DeWolf (suggested by Anita Rognas) Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions by Rachel Held Evans (suggested by Anita Rognas) Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (suggested by Miriam Morgan) On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks (suggested by Miriam Morgan) Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin (suggested by Miriam Morgan)

Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying by Stephen Levine (suggested by Miriam Morgan) Adult Fiction: Selected Stories by Alice Munro (suggested by Helen Matveyeff) Under the Wide and Starry Sky: A Novel by Nancy Horan (suggested by Myrna Chaney) A Dangerous Place: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear (suggested by Myrna Chaney) Evil Angels among Them by Kate Charles (suggested by Anita Rognas) The Story Teller by Margaret Coel (suggested by Anita Rognas) The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig (suggested by Gretchen Strohmaier) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (suggested by Miriam Morgan)