April Picks
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula's castle to finalise a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker's fiancée, Mina, the spitting image of his dead wife, he imprisons him and sets off for London to track her down.Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Wilems
The plot is about a bus driver who has to leave so he asks the reader to not allow the Pigeon to drive the bus.Matilda by Roald Dahl
At the age of five and a half, Matilda enters school and befriends her teacher Jennifer Honey, who is astonished by her intellectual abilities. Miss Honey tries to move Matilda into a higher class, but is refused by the headmistress, the tyrannical Miss Agatha Trunchbull.Night of the Living Dummy by RL Stine
Lindy and Kris Powell are walking through their neighborhood. The two girls decide to inspect a house that is under construction. While searching through a garbage container near the house, Lindy finds a mysterious ventriloquist's dummy and decides to call him Slappy.Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Brown Girl Dreaming follows the childhood of the author, Jacqueline Woodson, from her birth to around age ten. Jacqueline is born in Ohio, the youngest child of three, in 1963, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Jacqueline and her family are African-American.
