Dunellen Public Library

Sarah is reading The Gift by Patrick O’Leary. “I love O’Leary’s way of telling stories, and I recommend this book to anyone! By choosing a professional storyteller as the narrator, he incorporates a lot of smaller stories into the main one.”

Viola is reading Tell Me, Pretty Maiden, the seventh book in the Molly Murphy series, by Rhys Bowen. “I love reading mysteries and historical fiction. This series is about a young Irish immigrant who comes to New York City in the late 1890’s and becomes a detective.”

Classic Beatles numbers tell how Jude, a dock worker, comes to America to find his estranged father, and falls in love with a girl named Lucy.

Robert Ford, who has idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries to join his gang, but gradually becomes resentful of the Missouri outlaw.

Rated R.

Angelina and the Rag Doll by Katherine Holabird
Angelina Ballerina is back, and this time she is Miss Lilly’s helper in Beginner’s Ballet. Now that Angelina is so grown up, is it time to give up her “babyish” rag doll?

The Magic Half by Annie Barrows
Miri, an 11-year-old middle child sandwiched between two sets of twins, moves with her family into an old farmhouse. Once settled into her new bedroom, she magically travels back in time to 1935, where she meets a girl who is like her own twin.

The Fashion Disaster That Changed My Life by Lauren Myracle
Allie begins what should have been her “breakout year” all wrong. A seventh grader should never be seen with a pair of underpants stuck by static to the leg of her pants. When, in spite of “the incident,” Allie starts hanging with the in-crowd, she realizes having a breakout year may not be all it’s cracked up to be.

Set in a Victorian summer house in Maine, the relationship between Sydney Brant and her pianist husband Laurus is truly a family saga that stirs the imagination.

Jacob Jankowski, now in his 90s, reflects on his life in the circus, his relationship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie the elephant. Sometimes funny, sometimes surprising, the story always engages the reader.