April Picks

1. This Jazz Man by Karen Ehrhardt
   This Jazz Man is the story of a nine-year-old boy named Zeke, who lives with his parents on the top floor of a brownstone in Harlem. The story begins with Zeke remembering an old home he used to live in down South.

2. The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos
   The Night Gardener follows two abandoned Irish siblings who travel to work as servants at a creepy, crumbling English manor house. But the house and its family are not quite what they seem. Soon the children are confronted by a mysterious spectre and an ancient curse that threatens their very lives.

3. Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
   "Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

4. The Haunted Library by DH Butler
   When ghost boy Kaz's haunt is torn down and he is separated from his ghost family, he meets a real girl named Claire, who lives above the town library with her parents and her grandmother. Claire has a special ability to see ghosts when other humans cannot and she and Kaz quickly form a friendship.

5. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
   In its own outlandish way, A Light in the Attic is a collection of inspirational poems, beginning with the title poem, which suggests that “the lights are on and somebody is home,” and ending with “The Bridge,” which will only take the reader halfway, Silverstein notes