Putting pants on a chicken [Special Guest Angela Longerbeam]

Russell, Rachel, and Rachael chat with our guest Angela Longerbeam, Assistant Branch Manager at the Mount Hermon Branch Library in Pittsylvania County. We discuss cozy fall reading, experiencing other perspectives through novels in verse, and exploring our murder book era. Listen until the end for the library crime of the century!

Books we discuss include:

• “Bread and Jam for Frances” by Russell Hoban, illustrated by Lillian Hoban
• “Shady Hollow” series by Juneau Black
• “Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees” by Patrick Horvath
• “The Spellshop” series by Sarah Beth Durst
• “The Examiner”, “The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels” and everything by Janice Hallett
• “You Know Me Al” by Ring Lardner
• “Under the Dome” by Stephen King
• “Witchcraft for Wayward Girls” by Grady Hendrix
• “The Only Purple House in Town” by Ann Aguirre
• “Before the Ever After” by Jacqueline Woodson
• “Good Different” by Meg Eden Kuyatt
• “The Crossover” by Kwame Alexander
• “Long Way Down” by Jason Reynolds
• “Apple Crush” by Lucy Knisley
• “Atmosphere” by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway
• “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad
• “Cujo” by Stephen King