Hello, JFIC fans,
Reading is the perfect activity for these unprecedented times of social distancing. Many libraries and bookstores are closed, but you can still borrow or buy ebooks and audio ebooks or simply order books and audiobooks online (preferably from your favorite local bookstore).
On March of last year, I posted a list for Women’s History Month titled Herstorical JFIC. Here’s a list (alpha by title) of several books from that post that are probably available to borrow as ebooks and/or audio ebooks from your local library (they’re all available from mine: the Denver Public Library):
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk
Birchbark House (The) by Louise Erdrich
Breadwinner (The) by Deborah Ellis
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson
Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia (The) by Esther Hautzig
Esperanza Rising and Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (The) by Jacqueline Kelly
Full Cicada Moon by Larilyn Hinton
Green Glass Sea (The) by Ellen Klages
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Lions of Little Rock (The) by Kristin Levine
Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
Night Diary (The) by Veera Hiranandaani
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
One Crazy Summer and sequels by Rita Williams-Garcia
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban
Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
War That Saved My Life (The) and sequel by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
West of the Moon by Margi Preus
Witch of Blackbird Pond (The) by Elizabeth George Speare
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
Stay home and read, everyone! ❤️
“For if I could please myself I would always live as I lived there. I would choose always to breakfast at exactly eight and to be at my desk by nine, there to read or write till one. If a cup of good tea or coffee could be brought to me about eleven, so much better. Tea should be taken in solitude.” ~C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
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