April Activity Calendar Reads

There's a random holiday for every day of the year. Mark the occasion with a book!
 

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1. Before we were yours: a novel

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Author:
Wingate, Lisa
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Notes:
APRIL 10 IS NATIONAL SIBLINGS DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO SIBLINGS FICTION
Formats:
Book, Large Print, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...

2. The memory library

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Author:
Storey, Kate (Novelist)
Average Rating:
4 stars
Notes:
APRIL 6 IS NATIONAL LIBRARY DAY
Formats:
Book, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
"For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library. Each year, on her daughter's birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves--with a note in the front dedicated to her own greatest work. But Ella--Sally's only child--fled to Australia twenty-one years ago after a heated exchange, and never looked back. And though Sally still dutifully adds a new paperback to the shelves every time the clock strikes midnight on July 11th, her hopes of...