Good Books – May 2008

How Long is Too Long?

The book that holds the Guinness record for longest novel is The Remeberance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, at 1.5 million words over 13 volumes. I love to read, but I have to admit – that is just too long! So the next time your teacher tells you that you need to find a book that is 200 pages or more for a report, or in-class reading, remember, it could always be worse!

For those of you who like you books extra-skinny, here is a list of books from the teen collection, with page numbers:

Paranoid Park by Blake Nelson (180)

Cut by Patricia McCormick (168)

Stop Pretending by Sonya Sones (149)

The First Part Last by Angela Johnson (131)

Animal Farm by George Orwell (124)

Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman (114)

The Long Night of Leo and Bree by Ellen Wittlinger (111)