For the last several years, The Department of Human Services of Cheshire has had a mitten tree in the library’s lobby, requesting the public to donate holiday gifts for needy girls and boys.  Our patrons have always been very generous and we thank you very much!

This year, after the gifts were gathered up to be delivered, we turned the mitten tree into ‘what was your favorite book of 2014′ tree.

Here’s what you said:

Children:

• A Cheese Colored Camper – Geronimo Stilton
• Because of Mr. Terupt – Rob Buyea
• Biscuit – Alyssa Satin Capucilli
• Daddy Hugs – Karen Katz
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Jeff Kinney (3)
• Dragons – Lucille Recht Penner
• Frozen adapted by Sarah Nathan and Sela Roman
• Gathering Blue – Lois Lowery (YA)
• Humphrey Series – Betty Birney
• I Spy series – Jean Marzollo & Walter Wick
• I Survived Series – Lauren Tarshis
• I’m Too Fond of My Fur – Geronimo Stilton
• Isabelle – Lawrence Yep
• It’s Hard to be 5 – Jamie Lee Curtis
• Junie B., First Grader At Last – Barbara Park
• Last Olympian – Rick Riordon (YA)
• Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
• Looking for Alaska – John Green (YA)
• Miss Daisy is Crazy – Dan Gutman
• Molly Moon Series– Georgia Byng
• Number the Stars – Lois Lowry
• Okay for Now – Gary Schmidt (YA)
• One For The Murphys – Lynda Mullaly Hunt (YA)
• Out of My Mind – Sharon M. Draper
• Polar Express – Chris Van Allsburg
• Rainbow Fairy Series – Daisy Meadows
• Rangers Apprentice Series – John Flanagan
• The BFG – Roald Dahl
• The Blood of Olympus – Rick Riordan (YA)
• The Fault in Our Stars – John Green (YA)
• The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien (YA)
• The Last Battle – C.S. Lewis
• The Lost Warrior – Erin Hunter (Graphic Novel)
• The Maze Runner – James Dashner (YA)
• The Penultimate Peril – Lemony Snicket
• The Secret of the Snow – Thea Stilton
• Warriors: Bramble Star’s Storm – Erin Hunter

Adult:

• A Man Called Ove – Frederick Backman
• A Week in Winter – Maeve Binchy
• All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
• Being Mortal – Atul Gawande (Nonfiction)
• Child of Mine – David & Beverly Lewis
• Clifton Chronicles – Jeffrey Archer
• Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende
• I Am Malala – Malala Yousafzai (Nonfiction)
• Pegasus – Danielle Steel
• Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
• Sin Undone – Larissa Ione
• Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good – Jan Karon
• Summerset Abbey – T.J. Brown
• The Aviator’s Wife – Melanie Benjamin
• The Bible
• The Boys in the Boat – Dan Brown (Nonfiction)
• The First Phone Call From Heaven – Mitch Albom
• The Invention of Wings – Sue Monk Kidd
• The Language of Flowers – Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• The Leftovers – Tom Perrotta
• The Lost Empire of Atlantis – Gavin Menzies (Nonfiction)
• The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith
• The Spirit of Steamboat – Craig Johnson
• The Walk Series – Richard Evans
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – John LeCarre
• Vienna Prelude – Bodie Thoene
• Written in My Own Heart’s Blood – Diana Gabaldon

 If you don’t see your title here, there were a few mittens that we could not decipher.