Canandaigua Reads!

This month Canandaigua Reads! Jim the Boy and The Blue Star by Tony Earley. Here's the scoop from Canandaigua Reads! on the Canandaigua School District website:

"Great things happen when all Canandaigua Reads!, the annual community reads project when our whole community is invited to read and discuss a single book. Well, usually it's a single book. But this year, it's two novels...and again we are excited to have the author coming to town! The 2009 Canandaigua Reads! selections are Jim the Boy and The Blue Star by Tony Earley. The two novels form a nearly continuous coming-of-age story of a boy named Jim. Spare, intimate, quietly moving, the two novels reveal a very normal boy from southern Appalachia, raised by his Mom and three uncles, who sees his world slowly unfold around him, and the currents of his family's past and the wider world slowly ensnare him. Please join us. Read Jim the Boy and The Blue Star! Canandaigua Reads! is a partnership of Wood Library, Canandaigua's Community Reading Partnership, Finger Lakes Community College, and the Canandaigua City School District."

Both books may be borrowed from Wood Library and may be purchased at Wegmans and other area bookstores. When you purchase your copies online at Wood Library's aStore at Amazon.com, Wood Library earns a 10% commission. Look in the "Book Discussions" section.