Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

Comfort Snowberger has attended more funerals that anyone else her age as her family owns the local funeral parlor.  But when Great Aunt Florentine dies it is different.  Comfort not only has to deal with her grief for Aunt Florentine but also her annoying cousin Peach and her best friend who has suddenly turned away from her.


This book is loosely connected to the Aurora County novels by Deborah Wiles.  I enjoyed this book.  It was entertaining and funny even while dealing with the various forms grief can take.  I would recommend this book to all kids.

A Long Line of Cakes: An Aurora County Novel by Deborah Wiles

Emma Lane Cake belongs to a family of traveling bakers.  They arrive in a new town every few months to set up a bakery and leave after helping the town with their problems.

Now they've arrived in Halleluia.  Emma is afraid to make another best friend that she'll have to leave again soon.  But she soon meets Ruby Lavendar and can't help becoming her friend.

Now Emma and Ruby must come up with a plan to keep the Cakes in Halleluia forever.



This is the fourth book in the Aurora County series by Deborah Wiles.  While it isn't the first book, you don't need to read the others to enjoy it.  This book is filled with family and friends with a hint of the mystical. 

The Times Were A-Changin'

The 1960's were a time of great change for America.  The Civil Rights movement, the Cuban Missle Crisis, the counterculture movement all occurred during those turbulent years.  Here are some great books set during the 1960's for kids . . .

Gentle's Holler by Kerry Maden

In the early 1960s, twelve-year-old songwriter Livy Two Weems dreams of seeing the world beyond the Maggie Valley, North Carolina, holler where she lives in poverty with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, but understands that she must put family first.

90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis

Julian's parents, hoping to protect him from the dangers of the turmoil in Cuba, send him to the United States in 1961 as part of Operation Pedro Pan, not realizing that life in a Miami refugee camp holds its own perils.

Countdown by Deborah Wiles

As eleven-year-old Franny Chapman deals with drama at home and with her best friend in 1962, she tries to understand the larger problems in the world after President Kennedy announces that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba. 

The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon

In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African-Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.

Spitting Image by Shutta Crum

In the small town of Baylor, Kentucky, twelve-year-old Jessie K. Bovey and her friends confront some of life's questions during their summer vacation in the late 1960s.

More Novels of the 1960s --

Abby Takes a Stand by Patricia McKissack

The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter

Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

Dancing in Cadillac Light by Kimberly Willis Holt

Flying South by Laura Elliott

Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle & Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me by Nan Marino

The Private Thoughts of Amelia E. Rye by Bonnie Shimko

Sources of Light by Margaret McMullan

Spelldown by Karen Luddy

The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

When Pirates Came to Brooklyn by Phyllis Shalant

Check out these books on display at the Arnold Branch through October 9, 2015.