Nancy Pearl, Super Librarian

September 30, 2011

Nancy Pearl is a librarian with an action figure. She helped start a movement to get communities to read together. And she’s written top selling books about what books to read. Pearl joins host Charles Wohlforth on Hometown, Alaska to talk about how one Seattle librarian made books exciting and current in an era when how we read and use libraries is changing rapidly.

Books mentioned by Nancy Pearl on Hometown Alaska, October 5, 2011

Suzanne Collins, Gregor the Overlander
Ally Condie, Matched trilogy
Marie Lu, Legend
M.T. Anderson, Feed, and Whales on Stilts
Joan Aiken, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis
Neil Gaimon, Neverwhere
Robin McKinley, Sunshine
Pamela Dean, Tam Lin
Lois McMaster Bujold, Vorkosigan saga
Barbara Hambly, Those Who Hunt the Night
Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf
Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Does My Shirts
Helen Cresswell, Ordinary Jack
Alexandra Fuller, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
Betty Smith, Joy in the Morning
Mary Carr, The Liar’s Club
Haven Kimmel, A Girl Named Zippy

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HOST: Charles Wohlforth

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