What books are on the Guatemalan bookshelf?

1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The first of the three books in the Hunger Game series where you are introduced to Katniss, Peeta and  their families and the life they live in district 12. When reaping day comes around is when everyones jaws drop!









2. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The second of the three book Hunger Game series is where you realize that the people of Panem will never be safe and how the love between famiy and friends is what will pull you through or destroy you.

3. Mockingjay by Sizanne Collins
The third book in the Hunger Games series, but I am still waiting to get it in the mail. I am dying to find out what happens next.









4. Little Bee  by Chris Cleave
A story that captures the hard times of a Nigerian girl and a British mother and wife. The story follows them as they find each other and help to ease each others pain.

5. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Stout
The story of a retired school teacher, on the coast of Maine, who through challenges and problems in the town begins to understand her life and herself on a deeper level.








6. Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls
Written through the eyes of her grandmother Jeanette Walls tells the story of her grandmother's life from childhood to adulthood. She describes in detail what she has accomplished and the hardships she has overcome from moves, to marriages, to natural disasters and children.







7. Unless it Moves the Human Heart (The Art and Craft of Writing) by Roger Rosenblatt
This story follows one semester of Professor Rosenblatts "Writing is Everything" class. If profiles the students and follows their conversations, interactions and their work.

8.The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
This novel is about the disappearance of two 9 year old best friends, Calli and Petra and the toll the investigation takes on their families.






If anyone has any suggestions for what else to read while I am here please pass them along!