Book Recommendations

Margaret and Maizon may not be family but they feel like sisters. they have done everything together since they can remember on their block in Brooklyn. Everything might be changing though. Margaret’s father is int he hospital and for the first time she and Maizon will be split up. Maizon is afraid to go to a school with hardly any black students and Margaret is afraid of feeling all alone. Will they both survive the fall?

Mrs. Branyon

In Coraline’s apartment are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen doors open and one only opens on to a brick wall until the day it leads to another world just like hers only different. There is another mother, another father and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself. The book is even better than the movie.

Mrs. Branyon

Twelve-year-old Mike (short for Michaela) is inseparable from her brother Red. then one day Red disappears. One minute he is here, the next…gone. No warning. No time to prepare. This is a story that is equal parts mystery, romance and tragedy. It is the story of how the memories of those we have lost can help transform our fears of being alone into a greater appreciation of what remains.

Mrs. Branyon

Have you ever wished you were someone else? Mary Elousie is dying to be in the school play, but the part she gets is the last one she wants–narrator of the Black History skit. Even though her grandmother, Big Momma, says it’s important to remember her heritage, Mary Elouise hates being reminded about slavery and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She’d rather be int he skit about presidents with Brandy, the girl in her class with beautiful blond hair. Then one day, two stroytellers come to school with glorious tales of Africa…and a new way for Mary Elouise to see herself and her heritage.

Mrs. Branyon