My favorite book that I read in 2014 would have to be Wringer by Jerry Spinelli. This is my favorite book because I like to read about some of the things that were considered to be normal back then and weird now.  This book takes place in a small city that have weird festivities. A couple of them being: Pigeon Day and The annual punching for when it is your birthday.  I like it because Palmer goes against his father and his friends when he decides to keep a pigeon and take care of it each and every day. When Palmer gets his punches for how old he is his mom gets all mad and his father explains to her that he too went through the same treatment.  He explains to her that this is acceptable. When pigeon day is coming up Palmer has became friends with Wringer ( his pet pigeon).  He doesn't want to become a Wringer like his father and asks multiple times why do they have to kill the pigeons when they didn't do anything to them. He gives Palmer the same answer every time saying that is best for them.  This book is really cool because Palmer does everything that is considered weird in that town. He is not like the others and doesn't really fit in.  And for these reasons Wringer was my favorite book I read in 2014.