Patch Picks: National Read Across America Day

Here is our new feature called Patch Picks, highlighting editor and reader picks of great local businesses, destinations, services, organizations, ways to spend a day off, and more.  

You’ll find useful lists to help you, your family, friends, and significant others find the best places for everything from Sunday brunch to New Year’s Eve celebrations, pumpkin patches, date night destinations, florists, girlfriend nights out, kids' party places, parks and more.

Our segment this week is quite the educational one. We asked librarians from the and the to give us some great titles that both kids and adults can read.

Patch Picks: National Read Across America Day

• A Discovery of Witches –Story of a girl who discovers she's from a line of powerful New England witches.
• Llama Llama Home With Mamma – The adventures of a baby llama forced to go shopping with his mamma.
  
• The Informationist – An "information specialist's" double life begins to catch up with her as her past comes back.
• The Maze Runner – Thomas can barely remember his name but must discover why he's so important to a world he doesn't know.
  
• The Paris Wife – Chronicles the relationship of Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.