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Summary: 101 Books to Read Before You Grow Up provides a comprehensive list of kid-friendly books for children to read before they grow up. This must-read review list acts as an interactive journal where kids can document the books they read, why they like them, and how they rate them. Divided into sections by subject, from fairy tales and fantasy to sports and nonfiction, 101 Books to Read Before You...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published by Walter Foster Jr., a division of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 028.5 SCHAllen, Jessica
Summary: What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-loved novels, determined by a rigorous national survey. Subsequent episodes will air in September and October. Celebrities and everyday Americans will champion their favorite novel and in the finale in late October, America's #1 best-loved novel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 016 BOOFadiman, Clifton
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 011.7 FADSilvey, Anita
Summary: By selecting only 100 "best books" Anita Silvey distinguishes her guide from all the others and makes it possible to give young readers their literary heritage in the childhood years. The books we hear or read when we are children stay with us all our lives. If we miss them when we are young, we"ll miss them forever: no Hungry Caterpillar, no Winn-Dixie, no Roll of Thunder. As adults we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
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Summary: Presents lists of recommended book titles in more than 175 categories, including aging, bicycling, Elvis, humor, mothers and daughters, presidential biographies, sports and games, Western fiction, and many others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 011.73 PEASummary: Provides an authoritative listing of classic and contemporary children's literature that is categorized by age group and pairs each entry with expert evaluations and reproductions of artwork from the featured titles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universe Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 011.62 ONESummary: Lists the top ten favorite books of 125 authors; includes short essays by the authors on selected favorites; and provides a summary of every book chosen, 544 in all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.9 TOPDirda, Michael.
Summary: Surveying the whole world of books, literary essayist Dirda opens with an impassioned critique of modern reading habits, then presents many of the great, and idiosyncratic, writers he loves the most. He starts with ancient classics and ends with groundbreaking science fiction; in between, he writes about everything from Renaissance intellectual history and Russian literary theory to spaghetti...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 081 DIRMustich, James
Summary: Encompassing fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children's books, history, and more, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die moves across cultures and through time to present an eclectic collection of titles, each described with the special enthusiasm readers summon when recommending a book to a friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.9 MUSCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.9 MUSPearl, Nancy.
Summary: Presents lists of recommended book titles in more than 120 categories, including adoption, building blocks, civil rights, friends, fairy tales, marriage, poetry, siblings, opera, and many others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 011.73 PEASmokler, Kevin.
Summary: What do the great books of your youth have to say about your life now? Smokler's essays on the classics are divided into ten sections, each covering an archetypical stage of life from youth and first love to family, loss, and the future. The author not only reminds you about the essential features of each great book but gives you a practical, real-world reason why revisiting it in adulthood is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2013