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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Book cover for "Before we were yours"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Notes:
APRIL 10 IS NATIONAL SIBLINGS DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO SIBLINGS FICTION
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. Jazzed

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APRIL 30 IS INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO JAZZ FICTION
Description:
"Academic geniuses, Wilhelmina "Will" Reinhardt and Dorothy "Dolly" Raab, become roommates at Barnard in the early 1920s, a time when college for women was a rarity. Socially awkward Will, grieving her mother's death, is fascinated by Dolly, a beautiful, charming rebel with an insatiable taste for adrenaline. Both musicians, they come alive at Harlem jazz clubs and Prohibition-era speakeasies. Dazzled by the world they are discovering together, their...
Book cover for "Judgment at Appomattox"
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Average Rating:
3 stars
Notes:
APRIL 9 IS APPOMATTOX DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO CIVIL WAR FICTION
Description:
A dramatized retelling of the last days of the Civil War.