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Books worth the read

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Amazing reads worth checking out either for yourself or your kiddo
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Kids books

 
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My mother read this book to me as a kid and i now read it to my young child.it tells a beautiful story of a boy growing up but regardless of the antics he gets up to his mothers love never changes. Even as she becomes an old woman she still goes out ...
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
 
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A book my mother read to me as a child that i now read to mine. Its the classic "would you still love me if i was a worm" as the child comes up with wild creatures and asks if his mom would still love him and she always responds with some equally as ...
I Love You, Stinky Face: McCourt, Lisa, Moore, Cyd

Banned books

 
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I read this book in school. It talks heavily of friendship, loss, and war as a child grows up in the middle east during a war
The Kite Runner
 
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A banned book!! Talks heavily on racism and teaching not to judge a book by it's cover as you learn that not everything is as black and white as it seems
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harperperennial)

Adult/young teen books

 
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Its a girl who doesn't let her disability define it it also has a cat
A Mango-Shaped Space
 
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Great story about a man looking for a woman his grandfather knew and learning more about his family and digs into different aspects of the holocaust that arnt talked about in history books
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
 
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Amazing book about life in the circus and love for animals
Water for Elephants: A Novel - Sara Gruen
 
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This story talks about slavery from the view point of the (master) child born a slave and both the advantages and disadvantages he faces growing up as his father's child and slave while also showing a different side of one of our founding fathers
Jefferson's Sons: Founding Father’s Secret