This week Annie is talking with store manager Olivia about some favorite titles shared with her by kids in the local community, and we thought it’d be fun for you to hear directly from the kids themselves.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Coo by Kaela Noele

El Deafo by CeCe Bell

Okay Witch by Emma Steinkeller

Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

Unsolved Case Files: Escape at 10,000 Feet by Tom Sullivan

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Middle School Bites series by Steven Banks

The Betsy-Tacy Treasury by Maude Hart Lovelace

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

The Unwanted series by Lisa McMann

Camp/Click/Act by Kayla Miller

Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Let’s Not Do That Again by Grant Ginder. (Published April 2022)

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