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Well, I have spent far too much on library fines this year already.  It is not going good.  I have had WAY too many books checked out and in fact I returned a rather large pile of books that I didn’t get a chance to read.  I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t been able to get through too many books.

I’ve never told my librarians that I have a book blog.  It’s always been my little secret for some reason.  The cat is now out of the bag.  One of the librarians in one of the branches I frequent (so two other branches still don’t know) saw my book bloggjng story when it ran on the 10 o’clock news.  What a surprise for them!

Most of everything this time around is for the kids.  Can you guess which ones I checked out and which ones the boys checked out on their own?

Non-Fiction

• 1 – 2 – 3 Art: Open-Ended Art for Young Children by Jean Warren
• 1-2-3 Colors: Color Day Activities for Young Children by Jean Warren

Young Adult Fiction

• Mare’s War by Tanita S. Davis
• Pretties by Scott Westerfield.  I do own this book but lent it out to  my mother-in-law not expecting that I would be reading it soon. But after reading Uglies both husband and I are sharing this library copy.

For the Kids

• Are You Ready to Play Outside by Mo Willems
• Pigs Make Me Sneeze by Mo Willems
• Batman by Ralph Cosentino
• Batman. The Story of Batman by Scott Peterson
• Busy, Busy Moose by Nancy Van Laan
• Fantastic Four. The World’s Greatest Superteam by Neil Kelly
• Good Dog, Aggie! by Lori Ries
• Iron Man Armored Adventures. Deep Freeze by Frank Berrios
• My Hero by Apple Jordan
• Spiderman Versus Sandman by Harry Lime
• Wall-E: Roque Robots! by Jillian Joy Samuels

Movies

• The New Scooby-Doo Movies
• Puff the Magic Dragon
• Queen
• Vietnam War with With Walter Cronkite. Because I’m participating in the Vietnam War Reading Challenge I thought I would watch this documentary.
  
• Young Sherlock Holmes
• The Secret Life of Bees

Still checked out but still unread from my last library loot post:

• The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn.
• Operation Yes by Sara Holmes.
• How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford.
• Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern.
• Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers
• Shattered Silence: An Untold Story of a Serial Killer’s Daughter by Melissa G. Moore.
• The Year My Son and I Were Born by Kathryn Lynard Soper.
• North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley.  Cybils finalist.

Returned to the library unread from my last library loot post:

• The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman.
• Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival by Clara Kramer.
• The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Kim Eugenia.
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford.
• The Book of Jude by Kimberley Heuston
• The Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper.

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva from A Striped Armchair and Marg from Reading Adventures that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library.  Check out what other participants are checking out from their libraries.

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