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Reading Lists

Here are specific book lists for you to discover and enjoy reading.

 

Booklists

National Poetry Month

Books to celebrate National Poetry Month

Yaya's Cloth

By Andrea Potos

The Best American Poetry 2021

By David Lehman, Tracy K. Smith

Leaves of Grass

By Walt Whitman

When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through

By Joy Harjo, LeAnne Howe, Jennifer Elise Foerster

The complete collected poems of Maya Angelou

By Maya Angelou

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

By Audre Lorde

The Shambhala anthology of women's spiritual poetry

By Aliki Barnstone

Collected Poems

By Sylvia Plath

International Children's Book Day Book List

CPL Youth Librarians celebrate with some of their 5 star rated recent reads!

CPL Youth Librarians celebrate with some of their 5 star rated recent reads!

One Big Open Sky

By Lesa Cline-Ransome

CPL Youth Librarians celebrate with some of their 5 star rated recent reads!

Continental Drifter

By Kathy MacLeod

CPL Youth Librarians celebrate with some of their 5 star rated recent reads!

I Lived Inside a Whale

By Xin Li

CPL Youth Librarians celebrate with some of their 5 star rated recent reads!

Just Like Millie

By Lauren Castillo

CPL Youth Librarians celebrate with some of their 5 star rated recent reads!

Labors of Hercules Beal

By Gary D. Schmidt

CPL Youth Librarians celebrate with some of their 5 star rated recent reads!

Cucumber quest

By Gigi D. G. (Artist)

CPL Youth Librarians celebrate with some of their 5 star rated recent reads!

Verts

By Ann Patchett, Robin Preiss Glasser

CPL Youth Librarians celebrate with some of their 5 star rated recent reads!

Finally Heard

By Kelly Yang

CPL Youth Librarians celebrate with some of their 5 star rated recent reads!

Tegan and Sara

By Tegan Quin, Sara Quin, Tillie Walden

Green Living

Books on living a greener life to celebrate Earth day this month on April 22.

Sustainability made simple : small changes for big impact

By Rosaly Byrd

Regrow your veggies : growing vegetables from roots, cuttings and scraps

By Melissa Raupach

Wear, repair, repurpose : a maker's guide to mending and upcycling clothes

By Lily Fulop

Live green : 52 steps for a more sustainable life

By Jen Chillingsworth

Rewilding our hearts : building pathways of compassion and coexistence

By Marc Bekoff

The journeys of trees : a story about forests, people, and the future

By Zach St. George

Silent Spring

By Rachel Carson

A Sand County Almanac

By Aldo Leopold

Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life

By Barbara Kingsolver

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants

By Robin Wall Kimmerer

Healthy Vegetable Garden

By Sally Morgan

Teaming with microbes

By Jeff Lowenfels

Trees

By Tony Russell

Into the Forest

By Susan Hitchcock

Finding the Mother Tree

By Suzanne Simard

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