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Patch Picks: Top 5 Library Books for Kids and Adults

Top five books you should literally check out!

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This week we're giving you the top five most popular books at the Crystal Lake Library, for both kids and adults. Have you read any of these books? Have your kids? What books have you read lately?

Here's the list!

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Adults:

  • Tick Tock – James Patterson
  • The Help – Kathryn Stockett
  • The Stieg Larsson trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl who Played with Fire, The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest)
  • Dead or Alive – Tom Clancy
  • The Confession – John Grisham

Youth:

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  • The Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Jeff Kinney
  • Junie B. Jones (all) – Barbara Park
  • Skippy John Jones – Judy Schachner
  • Little Maizy books (all) – Lucy Cousins
  • The Lightning Thief – Rick Reardon


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