by Audra H. Anders & Peggy Smith for The Aha! Connection 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
Boys (around age 10)
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney The new one (#17) is Diper Overlode and is on Peggy’s son’s wish list. I (Audra) can not believe there are now 17 of these books!
- any Tim Green sports book
- Who was/What was Books
- I Survived Series
- The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- Sideways Stories from the Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Teen Girls (around age 13)
- The Judy Blume Teen Collection: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret; Deenie; Forever; Then Again, Maybe I Won’t; Tiger Eyes
- Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
- The Summer I Turned Pretty series by Jenny Han
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Stella by Starlight by Sharon Draper
- A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Peggy’s Recent Faves
- Verity by Colleen Hoover
- The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana Abe
- Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayad
- All of This by Rebecca Woolf
- We Are the Luckiest by Laura McKowen
- The Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook
Audra’s Recent Faves
- The End of Alzheimer’s: The first program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline by Dale E Bredesen, MD (I’m reading this now)
- Verity by Colleen Hoover
- The Push by Audrey Audrain
- The Oceanography of the Moon by Glendy Vanderah
- Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
- The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
- The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
