Nancy Pearl Book List for Weekday - KUOW Spring Pledge Drive 04/08/08

Children's Books:

 

The Betsy-Tacy series, Maud Hart Lovelace (e.g., Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown, Betsy’s Wedding, Emily of Deep Valley)

Maud Hart Lovelace’s Deep Valley: A Guidebook of Mankato Places in the Betsy-Tacy Book Series, Julie A. Schrader

The Saturdays, Elizabeth Enright

Tom’s Midnight Garden, Ann Philippa Pearce

Minnow on the Say (US: Minnow Leads to Treasure), Ann Philippa Pearce

Black and Blue Magic, Zilpha Keatley Snyder

A Soldier’s Heart, Gary Paulsen

Apples and Oranges: Going Bananas with Pairs, Sara Pinto

Tobey & Midge Heydon series, Marcy Rhodes series, Pam & Penny Howard series, Rosamond Du Jardin

Beany Malone series, Lenora Mattingly Weber

Cherry Ames series, Helen Wells and Julie Campbell Tatham (e.g., Cherry Ames, Student Nurse)

Robin’s Country, and the Doran series, Monica Furlong (e.g., Wise Child, A Year and a Day, Colman)

Swallows and Amazons series, Arthur Ransome

Freddy the Pig series, Walter R. Brooks

Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars, Ellen MacGregor

The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, Eleanor Cameron

The Midnight Folk, John Masefield

Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt

The Eyes of the Amaryllis, Natalie Babbitt

 

 

Other Books: 

 

A Gay and Melancholy Sound, Merle Miller

The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides

Caspian Rain, Gina Nahai

Metzger’s Dog: A Novel, Thomas Perry

The Face-Changers (Jane Whitefield novels), Thomas Perry

See No Evil, Robert Baer

Sleeping with the Devil, Robert Baer

Confession of a Child of the Century, Thomas Rogers

The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint: A Novel, Brady Udall

 

 

And the two books offered as the premium:

 

How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman

Then We Came to an End, Joshua Ferris