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Jackaroo
by Cynthia Voigt

(Middle school and up)
Date Read: Nov 6th

Note: This month I'm doing a lot of re-reading, and probably very little re-reviewing. I'll post links to my original reactions whenever possible.

 

Graceling
by Kristin Cashore

(High school)
Date Read: Nov 11th

First read in November of 2008. Original reactions here.

 

Living Dead Girl
by Elizabeth Scott

(Ages 16 and up)
Date Read: Nov 12th

First read in October of 2008. Original reactions here, here, and HERE.

 

Wendy
by Karen Wallace

(Middle school)
Date Read: Nov 13th

Peter Pan, minus the pixie dust. First read in 2003. Very much a not-for-everyone book. Wasn't entirely sure I liked it the first time, and I'm still undecided.

 

Heartbeat
by Sharon Creech

(Audio performed by Mandy Siegfried)
Date Read: Nov 14th

First read in 2004.

 

A Year Down Yonder
by Richard Peck

(Audio performed by Lois Smith)
Date Read: Nov 15th

First read in 2000. (And at least once a year since.)

 

The Aurora County All-Stars
by Debroah Wiles

(4th grade and up)
Date Read: Nov 15th

First read in June of 2007. Original gushings here.

 

The Alfred Summer
by Jan Slepian

(Middle school)
Date Read: Nov 16th

First read...sometime back in my bookstore days. And I think maybe I can finally talk about this book without snurping.

 

A Season of Gifts
by Richard Peck

(4th grade and up)
Date Read: Nov 16th

First read in June 2009. Original reactions here.

 

The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis
by Barbara O'Connor

(2nd grade and up)
Date Read: Nov 18th

Made an exception to the Fall Re-read-a-thon for Barbara O'Connor's latest, and I'm not the least bit sorry. It's a small adventure all right, and I like that, because hasn't everybody who's ever been a kid gotten themselves engrossed in something small but out-of-the-ordinary that looms large on a summer day? For me, it was crayfish-hunting with my cousin - codename: Ratboy. We probably spent two days catching a whopping half dozen of those little buggers, yet the memory hangs on grand and vivid as though we'd been wading alongside Huck Finn on the Mississippi. That's what Popeye and Elvis is like.

 

The River Between Us
by Richard Peck

(Middle school and up)
Date Read: Nov 19th

First read in 2003.

A Year Down Yonder is still my favorite, but this is quite simply Richard Peck's finest.

 

Ever
by Gail Carson Levine

(Middle school and up)
Date Read: Nov 21st

First read in January 2008.

Original reactions here.

Cover comments here.

 

Zel
by Donna Jo Napoli

(Middle school and up)
Date Read: Nov 22nd

First read in 1997, and still one of my favorites.

 

Song of the Magdalene
by Donna Jo Napoli

(High school)
Date Read: Nov 26th

First read...quite some time ago. (After Zel.)

 

The Magic Circle
by Donna Jo Napoli

(Middle school and up)
Date Read: Nov 27th

Ditto.

 

Spinners
by Donna Jo Napoli

(Middle school and up)
Date Read: Nov 29th

Double ditto.

 

   
   
   
   
   

 

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