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"READ LIKE THE PROS"

Make Sure You Check Out Our "Read Like the Pros" Table in the Library with the Pros Favorite Books!

 

Tina Tharp

Operations Manager

Elementary School Favorites

Curious George Series by HA Rey

Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell

Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Charlotte's Web By EB White

Middle School Favorites

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis

The Official Preppy Handbook by Lisa Birnbach

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

High School Favorites

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

Wanda Hickey and the Night of Golden Memories

by Jean Shepherd

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

 

 

Lance Lee

Head Tennis Professional

Elementary School Favorites

How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

Hardy Boys Series by Franklin W. Dixon

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson

Middle School Favorites

Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger

The Outsiders by S E Hinton

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane

High School Favorites

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley

 

 

Brian McGhee

Director of High Performance

Elementary School Favorites

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Curious George Series by HA Rey

A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

Middle School Favorites

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

High School Favorites

One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Man Who Would be King by Rudyard Kipling

 

 

Pat Powell

Staff Professional

Elementary School Favorites

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Babar by Jean De Brunhoff

Berenstein Bears Series

Middle School Favorites

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Letters to God by David A. Jones

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson

High School Favorites

Gifted Hands by Ben Carson

The Chosen by Chaim Potek

Night by Elie Weisel

The Promise by

      

    

                                                        

La'Vell Sutton

Staff Professional

Elementary School Favorites

Sara, Plain and Tall by Patricia Maclachlan

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Middle School Favorites

The Magic of You by Johanna Lindsey

Charlotte's Web by EB White

Raymond's Run by Toni Cade Bambara

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

High School Favorites

Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattio Beals

She Said Yes by Misty Bernall

Friday Night Lights by HG Bissinger

In Class by Itself by Sandra Brown

    

 

Rachel Isenberg

Staff Professional

Elementary School Favorites

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

The BFG by Roald Dahl

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Middle School Favorites

The Outsiders by SE Hinton

High School Favorites

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney

The World According to Garp by John Irving

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

 

 

 

 

Eric Dolaway

Staff Professional

Elementary School Favorites

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

by Virginia Lee Burton

Corduroy by Don Freeman

The Seven Chinese Brothers by Margert Mahy

Middle School Favorites

Indian in the Cupboard by Lynn Reid Banks

Holes by Louis Sachar

The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary

Cool Clyde, Fast Sam and Stuff by Walter Dean Myers

Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers

High School Favorites

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas

Autobiography of Malcom X as told to Alex HAley

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

   

 

Ryan Gargullo

Staff Professional

Elementary School Favorites

Curious George Series by HA Rey

Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Nate the Great Series by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Shel Silverstein Books

Middle School Favorites

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

High School Favorites

Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

Soldiers Story by Ron Steinman

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

by Robert M Pirsig

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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