Oh, there's no place like home for the holidays / 'Cause no matter how far away you roam / When you pine for the sunshine of a friendly face / For the holidays you can't beat home sweet home.  That song is right on the money.  At Christmastime, our hearts and minds are fixated on home.  So take a break from your holiday reading, and try one of these books set in Sweet Home Alabama.

KIDS
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Leo and the Lesser Lion by Sandra Forrester
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Elizabeth Miller
Singing Hands by Delia Ray
Sway by Amber McRee Turner
The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

TEEN
Alabama Moon by Watt Key
The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had by Kristin Levine
Leaving Gee's Bend by Irene Latham
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
The Splendor Falls by Rosemary Clement-Moore