Our second annual “Schola Recommends” post! These are some of our favorite books that various members of our clan have read over the last year and recommend to our patrons. These books span picture books through adult reads and are in no particular order. Come to Schola and check one out!
- Gabriel and the Hour Book – Evaleen Stein
- In Search of the Source – Neil Anderson
- Desiree’s Baby – Kate Chopin (short story for high school and older)
- Bread & Water, Wine & Oil – Fr. Meletios Webber
- The Golden Goblet – Eloise Jarvis McGraw
- My Name is Asher Lev – Chaim Potok
- The Finest Hours (Young People’s Edition) – Mike Tougias
- The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
- Heidi – Johanna Spyri
- Lassie, Come Home – Eric Knight
- A Narrative of a Life of Frederick Douglas – Frederick Douglas
- 26 Fairmont Avenue (8 book series) – Tomie de Paola
- Parnassus on Wheels – Christopher Morley
- The Big Wave – Pearl S. Buck
- The Great Cake Mystery (Precious Ramotswe’s Mysteries) – Alexander McCall Smith
- Carver, A Life in Poems – Marilyn Nelson
- The Kingdom Series (6 book series) – Chuck Black
- The Knights of Arrethtrae (6 book series) – Chuck Black
- My Side of the Mountain -and- On the Far Side of the Mountain – Jean Craighead George
- The Thanksgiving Visitor/A Christmas Memory – Truman Capote
- Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare
- Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare
- Richard III – William Shakespeare
- Gettysburg – McKinlay Kantor
- Across Five Aprils – Irene Hunt
- The Winged Watchman – Hilda van Stockum
- They Were Strong and Good – Robert Lawson
- Amos Fortune, Free Man – Elizabeth Yates
- Mountain Born – Elizabeth Yates
- Mozart, The Wonder Boy – Opal Wheeler
- Abigail Adams, Witness to a Revolution – Natalie Bober
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin – Robert Browning (ill. by Kate Greenaway)
- How Green Was My Valley – Richard Llewellyn
- Shane – Jack Schaeffer
- Hannah Coulter – Wendell Berry
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder
- The Chosen – Chaim Potok
