Books for Children and Adults

In honor of National Read Across America Day this week, Patch asked  in Decatur for their top picks for children and adult books.

Picture Books 

1. Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin and James Dean

2. We are in a Book! by Mo Willems

3. Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein

4. Ponyella by Laura Numeroff, by Nate Evans, Lynn Munsinger

5. I Broke My Trunk! by Mo Willems 

Middle Grades 

1. Bink and Gollie by Kate DiCamillo, Allison McGhee and Tony Fucile

2. Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger

3. Evolution of Calpurina Tate by Jacueline Kelly

4. Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz

5. Alchemyst by Michael Scott 

Young Adults

1. I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore

2. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

3. Angel by James Patterson

4. Dust City by Robert Paul Weston

5. Cloaked by Alex Finn 

Adult Fiction/Non-Fiction 

1. Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

2. Nutureshock: New Thinking about Children

3. Just Kids by Patti Smith

4. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

5. Object of Beauty by Steve Martin