Recommends fine fiction for summer reading, including Nadine Gordimer's "My Son's Story" (1991), Lillian Smith's "Strange Fruit" (1944), Josephine Hart's "Damage" (1991), Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres" (1991), and George Eliot's "Middlemarch" (1874). Nonfiction suggestions include Harlan Lane's…

THIS READING LIST PUBLISHED BY THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE LIBRARY WAS DRAWN FROM BOOK TITLES SUGGESTED BY 28 COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS IN PENNSYLVANIA FOR STUDENTS CONTEMPLATING GOING TO COLLEGE. THE FIRST OF THREE SECTIONS LISTS 26 ANNOTATED TITLES MOST OFTEN CITED AS BENEFICIAL READING FOR STUDENTS ENTERING COLLEGE. TITLES HIGHLY RECOMMENDED…

Several points need to be addressed when selecting humorous books for children. First, people of all ages react to humor in different ways; therefore, what one child finds funny another may not. Care must therefore be taken in sharing books with and recommending books for children. Second, humor itself is difficult to define, but humor should…