Each week the Natick Patch looks at the top ten most requested titles at the Bacon Free Library or the Morse Institute Library. This week we look at the most popular reads at the Morse Institute Library available as ebooks. With Kindle and Kindle Fire topping the holiday buying charts, it's great to know that eborrowing is here. Here are the top ten ebooks available for Kindle: 1. The Senator's Wife - Sue Miller 2. Saint Maybe - Anne Tyler 3. Suffer the Children - John Saul 4. Changeling Moon - Dani Harper 5. Lucky Break - Esther Freud 6. Local Girls - Alice Hoffman 7. Digging to America - …
This week, Dale Smith from the Morse Institute Library has suggested the following books: Children's picture books: These Hands, by May Mason: "An African-American grandfather tells his grandson about all the wonderful things he could do with his hands but how he wasn't allowed to touch the bread when he worked at the Wonder Bread factory," explained Smith. Just in Time, Abraham Lincoln, by Patricia Polacco: "While visiting a museum, two boys are whisked back in time to some prominent events in the Civil War. A good story for the sesquicentennial of the Civil War!" Children's novels: Theodore…
This week, interim director and children's librarian at the Bacon Free Library, Holley Meyer, suggests the following books: March, by Geraldine Brooks: This novel follows the story of a man named March, who chooses to leave his family and fight in the Civil War. The character is based on the father from Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women, who is away at war. In the month of March this year, library staff at the Morse Institute Library also suggested this read. Okay for Now, by Gary Schmidt: This story for older children follows a 14-year-old boy through his move to a new town and struggle…
This week, children's librarian and interim director of the Bacon Free Library, Holley Meyer, suggests the following books: Caleb's Crossing, by Geraldine Brooks: Set in the 1600s this novel follows the story of the first Native American to graduate from Harvard. The Troubled Man, by Henning Mankell: This mystery is the last of the Kurt Wallander series. First Garden, by Robbin Gourley: This children's book about the White House garden is chock full of history and information about gardening. Have you read any of these books or do you have a suggestion of your own? Tell us in the comments …
This week, the supervisor of children's services at the Morse Institute Library, Dale Smith, suggests the following books for you children this summer: Darke, by Angie Sage "People who have read [the Septimus Heap series] are really looking forward to that," said Smith. Throne of Fire, by Rick Riordan This book, from the series The Kane Chronicles, involves Egyptology and is so popular at the library that it already has 300 holds, according to Smith. Hooray for Amanda & Her Alligator!, by Mo Willems This picture book, which is written by the author of the Pigeon Series, is appropriate for…
