I'm amazed at the number of people who discover Ms. Smith's English Page each week. Many visitors are parents seeking ways to encourage their sons and daughters to do more reading. Here is a list of many of the books recommended throughout the pages of this website. Just print out a copy of this list and take it with you on your next visit to your local library. For convenience, I have also set up this "bookstore" in association with Amazon.com where you can purchase inexpensive paperback editions of these titles. Ms.Smith's English Page will be credited with a small percentage of each book bought through this site, and this will help defray the cost of maintaining this website. [Be sure to bookmark this page for easy reference.]

Doris Kearns Goodwin's Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir Here is a wonderful account of growing up in the fifties. The titles refers to the refrain uttered by fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers at the end of each season. (A refrain, I might add, still being echoed by diehard Red Sox fans!) Whether you are a baseball fan or not, you will find this book to be an absolute joy to read.

Another book I've been recommending lately is A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines. In a small Cajun community in Louisiana, a young man is sentenced to death for his role in a crime. A young teacher reluctantly agrees to help prepare the prisoner to accept his fate. This powerfully written novel explores both what the teacher teaches, and also what he comes to understand about himself.

from Reading Suggestions

Both Sides of Time by Caroline B. Clooney
The Client by John Grisham
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
(These books of silly, fun, nonsense verse and illustrations will delight children of all ages.)
Song of the Buffalo Boy by Sherry Garland
Singularity by William Sleator
Six Months to Live and Don't Die, My Love by Lurlene McDaniel

from Books That Have Inspired Us

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
To Kill A Mockingbird. by Harper Lee
So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
Night by Eli Wiesel
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Davis Wyss
It's A Matter of Trust

from Novel Notes

Across Five Aprils andNo Promises in the Wind by Irene Hunt
Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor (The sequels to this novel are Let the Circle Be Unbroken and Road to Memphis.
Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Bendigo Shafter by Louis L'Amour
Shane by Jack Schaefer
A Stitch in Time by Ann Rinaldi [Other titles by this author include:Broken Days, A Break with Charity; A Story of the Salem Witch Trials, and The Fifth of March; A Story of the Boston Massacre.
Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
To Kill A Mockingbird. by Harper Lee

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