Book Reviews

Here’s where you’ll find the collocated links to book reviews that I’ll post periodically. Also, I’ve decided to join a couple of blog book challenges, and you so you can see my selections (which I’ll be reviewing as I read them) on my Blog Book Challenge(s) page.

Picture Books

Dogku by Andrew Clements illus. by Tim Bowers

June 29, 1999 by David Weisner

Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett

Mr. Pusskins: A Love Story by Sam Lloyd

Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watts

Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend by Melanie Watts

Splat the Cat by Rob Scotton

Wolves by Emily Gravett

Middle Grade Fiction

The Bark of the Bog Owl by Jonathan Rogers

A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban

Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis

Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree by Lauren Tarshis

Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell

Fablehaven #1 by Brandon Mull

Ingo by Helen Dunmore

Kimchi & Calamari by Rose Kent

Moxy Maxwell Does not Love Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford and Victoria Fisher

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Secret History of Tom Trueheart by Ian Beck

Sky Village Book 1 Kaimira by Monk and Nigel Ashland

Young Adult Fiction

Acceleration by Graham Mcnamee

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson

Beastly by Alex Flinn

The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci

Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks

Deadline by Chris Crutcher

The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin

Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

Skullduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr

Th1rteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

Un Lun Dun by China Mieville

You Don’t Know Me by David Klass

Graphic Novels for the Younger Crowd/All Ages

Amelia Rules! Volume #1: The Whole World’s Crazy by Jimmy Gownley

Mouse Guard Fall 1152 by David Petersen

The Wall by Peter Sis

Young Adult Graphic Novels

Daisy Kutter: the Last Train by Kazu Kibuishi

Re-Gifters by Mike Carey, Sonny Liew, Marc Hempel

Adult Fiction for Young Adults

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Thursday Next: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Adult Nonfiction

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard translated by Jeffrey Mehlman

The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

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