September 2015

Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal doses, this journal told by “the wife” reveals a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Completely held my attention as I flew threw the pages.

For the ultimate lazy reader, here’s a 2-for-1 bonus, as Japanese master auteur Haruki Murakami shares two shorter coming of age stories that launched his career in the late 1970s.

Laugh-out-loud funny. If you’re having a bad day, turn off your electronic devices and sit behind this book. I also found the book to be quite inspirational.

Picked this book up because of its clever play on “Khan Academy,” and I wound up breezing through this very funny book about a teenage con artist navigating his way through prep school. Very entertaining.

If you like stories that will scare you out of your pants, this is the book for you. You could read this aloud to teens and hear a pin drop…that is, until they jump out of their seats and scream.

Cool “lost” comic of the 1940s about a Chinese American superhero known as “the Green Turtle.” This is a graphic novel your boys will fight over. Great illustrations by Sonny Liew.

May created the comic Princess X in fifth grade with her buddy Libby, who soon after died in a car crash. Now that she is 16, May is startled to find her creation plastered around the streets of Seattle. Here’s a graphic novel your girls will bend over backwards to read.

Just in time for the start of the school year, this clever take on miscommunicated idioms reads like a long Amelia Bedelia adventure. Terrific tool for making language arts fun.

Timely book to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the devastating hurricane to hit the Gulf in 2005.

Great book for reluctant readers, as it follows the adventures of a boy who reluctantly reads a book that “nabs” him and carries him away.