Recommended

Something I read recently and would recommend...

Mrs. Gillette: "The Shack," "Huffington-Post," "The Happiness Project" blog

Mrs. Wood-Bell: any of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Hunger Games series

Mr. Poska: Anything by James Patterson

Mr. Olbash: Cleopatra, by Stacy Schiff. A biography of the last queen of ancient Egypt. Just outstanding!!

Ms. Williams: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, The Road Less Traveled by Scott Peck - I reread sections of this book every few years. In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, West with the Night by Beryl Markham

Ms. Bertone: Found by Margaret Petterson Haddix (The Missing Series), Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Ms. Zmijewski: Glass Castles

Mrs. Sotirakopoulos: Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders

Mrs. Curtis: I am reading A Walk In The Woods (that a student actually lent to me). It is about a man who hikes the Appalachian trial. Super funny and informative.

Mrs. Spencer: I enjoy the Dan Brown books.

Mrs. Sherman: I just finished Cutting for Stone. It's long but I recommend it to adult readers. I LOVED Water for Elephants, too. For mature young adults, I recommend Sold by Patricia McCormack, Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Speak. Warning, though: They are about tough issues! For my own students, I recommend The Hunger Games and Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series. I couldn't put them down.

Mr. Goncalves: Justin Cronin's The Passage

Mrs. Benosky: Letters from Lexington (not sure if that is the exact title) by Noam Chomsky, The Mallorean and the Belgariad, by David and Leigh Eddings , The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (English version)

Mrs. Lydon: Maniac Magee is still a great read!

Mrs. Faria: Of all my recent reading, I most enjoyed The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. It is elegant in both English and French.

Miss Villanti: Outliers, Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen

Ms. Kehoe Recently I read Shark Girl and The Five People You Meet in Heaven.

Ms. Forsyth: Right now I am reading all the Harry Potter books. They still make me smile. Before that I read Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris. It covers the early life of Hannibal Lecter. Very good read - good plot, exciting.

Ms. Snow: Robert B Parker - Jesse Stone or Sunny Randall series

Ms. Flynn: Tales from the Bed

Ms. Arsenault: The Art of Racing in the Rain and A Dog's Purpose

Ms. Woznick: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind and Cutting For Stone are two of my favorite books that I read in the past year or so. My favorite recent kids book is probably When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead.

Ms. Fila: The Gallagher Girls "Spy Series".

Mrs. McWha: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Mrs. Sullivan: The Giver

Mrs. Pasquarelli: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Shaffer & Barrows, Look Me in the Eye – Robbinson, The Good Thief -Tinti

Mrs. Moffett: The Help by Katherine Stockett

Mrs. Klemm: The Help, by Kathryn Stockett

Ms. Lague: The Hunger games trilogy.

Mrs. Woitunski: The Lace Reader, Cutting for Stone, The Hunger Games (all three), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (all 3)

Mrs. Robbins: The non-fiction book Pinheads and Patriots by Bill O'Reilly

Mrs. Trider: The Shack

Ms. Place: The Wake of Forgiveness, by Bruce Machart

Mrs. Roebuck: Three Cups of Tea

Ms. Greenleaf: Yes, this is the title (the whole thing): Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them by Donovan Hohn This book gave me insight about plastic and our environment; the ocean; and a new look at environmental causes and the motivation behind some of those causes. Loved it! My book group just had our discussion on it. Hohn was actually a high school English teacher and one of his students wrote a quick story about the bath toys which piqued his interest. He left his teaching position to investigate this story.