All Booked Up
March 2017
Windsor Library’s
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Reading Challenge 2017: Re-read a Book You Loved as a Child
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
This story is about a teenager who after a car crash relives the day of her death over and over again until, on
the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.
This movie comes out on March 3 and stars Zoey Deutch.
Staff Pick of the Month
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
This is the first in a wonderfully light, funny series featuring Izzy Spellman, a private detective for an agency
owned and run by her family, out of their home. Izzy is an engaging, spunky, sometimes wrongheaded
heroine who is quick to admit her own shortcomings. She does somehow always manage to complete the
investigation. If you liked Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series, the Spellmans will also bring you joy and
laughter. Six books in all.
Listen Up
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
With unflinching honesty and moving prose, Janet Mock relays her experiences of growing up young, multiracial, poor, and trans in America, offering listeners accessible language while imparting vital insight
about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of a marginalized and misunderstood population. Though
undoubtedly an account of one woman's quest for self at all costs, this is a powerful vision of possibility
and self-realization, pushing us all toward greater acceptance of one another-and of ourselves-showing as never before
how to be unapologetic and real.
Written and narrated by Janet Mock
Length: 8. 5 hours
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The Windsor Library Reading Challenge
The Windsor Public Library Reading Challenge asks you as a reader to read a book in 12 different categories. We hope
that this experience will allow you to branch out. Feel free to share with us what you read for each category. This month
our Spotlight feature is one of the reading challenge categories: Read a book about an immigrant or refugee.
Wild Girl by Patricia Reilly Giff
Readers will find hope and resiliency in this coming-of-age story. When 12-year-old Lidie must leave
Brazil to join her father and brother in the United States, she has difficulty adjusting to her new
life. The book beautifully conveys the pain of separation from loved ones, the powerlessness that
children often feel, magnified by having to navigate a new culture and language .
What is the What by Dave Eggers
A biographical novel traces the story of Valentino Achak Deng, who as a boy was separated from his
family when his village in southern Sudan was attacked, and became one of the estimated 17,000 "lost
boys of Sudan" before relocating from a Kenyan refugee camp to Atlanta in 2001.
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp by Ben Rawlence
In this compelling work of nonfiction, Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show
what life is like in the Dadaab refugee camp of northern Kenya. He combines intimate storytelling with
reporting on the broader sociopolitical context to communicate what it's like to live day-to-day on
rations and luck. [ --from publisher's description.]
Outcasts United by Warren St. John
Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical southern town until it became a refugee resettlement center. Luma
Mufleh, a young Jordanian woman educated in the United States and working as a coach for private
youth soccer teams in Atlanta, was out for a drive one day and ended up in Clarkston. She was
pleasantly surprised by the ethnic restaurants and by the sight of women wearing the hijab. Most of
all, she was amazed and delighted to see young boys, black and brown and white, some barefoot,
playing soccer on every flat surface they could find. Luma decided to quit her job, move to Clarkston,
and start a soccer team. This was where she needed to be, and this was where she made a huge
difference in the lives of the Fugees and the small Southern town they came to call home.--From
publisher description.
Lucy and Linh by Alice Pung
In Australia, Lucy tries to balance her life at home surrounded by her Chinese immigrant family, with
her life at a pretentious private school.
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
Moving from Mexico to America when their daughter suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras
confront cultural barriers, their daughter's difficult recovery and her developing relationship with a
Panamanian boy.
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