Top 5 Yummy Summer Reads

Set in Mississippi in the 1960s, The Help explores what it was like to be a maid during the early stages of the civil rights movement. Where you were trusted to raise a white woman’s child but not allowed to use the same washroom. Where the rules changed daily and it could be mean your life if you broke one. It is at once a heartbreaking and uplifting novel with lovable characters and one truly contemptible one. Read this one before you go see the movie starring Emma Stone and Cicely Tyson.

Water for Elephants is about a veterinarian who joins a Depression-era circus, falls in love with a performer and befriends an elephant named Rosie. First published in 2006, this book has appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list for the last 19 weeks and has been made into a movie starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon. Romance in a circus setting? Sound familiar?