Book Reviews

Following is an archive of all my book reviews by age level broken down by fiction or non-fiction. Further down the page are book reviews alpha by author as well as upcoming reviews.

FICTION

Adult

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Young Adult

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Middle Readers

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Picture Books

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NON-FICTION

Memoir/Biography

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General

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Picture Books

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Book Reviews Alpha by Author

A | B | C | D| E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q |R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi – Half of a Yellow Sun
Agarwal, Shilpa – Haunting Bombay
Ajak, Benjamin (with Benson & Alephonsion Deng)- They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys From Sudan
Aksomitis, Linda – Longhorns and Outlaws
Alexie, Sherman – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Alley, Zoe B. – There’s a Wolf at the Door: Five Classic Tales
Anonymous – Go Ask Alice
Appelt, Kathi – The Underneath
Asher, Jay – Thirteen Reasons Why
Asgedom, Mawi – Of Beetles & Angels, A Boy’s Remarkable Journey From a Refugee Camp to Harvard
Atwater, Richard & Florence – Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Aurebacher , Inge – I Am a Star, Child of the Holocaust

B

Baker, Tiffany – The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
Baraket, Ibtisam – Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
Barger, Jason – Step Back from the Baggage Claim: Change the World, Start at the Airport
Barrows, Annie (with Mary Ann Shaffer) – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Bashir, Halima – Tears of the Desert, A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
Bauer, Joan – Hope Was Here
Bauer, Marion Dane – On My Honor
Beaty, Andrea – Firefighter Ted
Beccia, Carlyn – The Raucous Royals
Beck, Glenn – The Christmas Sweater
Becker, Bonny – A Birthday for Bea
Becker, Bonny – A Visitor for Bear
Becker, Bonny – An Ant’s Day Off
Becker, Bonny – Holbrook: A Lizards Tale
Becker, Bonny – My Brother, The Robot
Becker, Bonny – The Christmas Crocodile
Bedford, David – I’ve Seen Santa! by David Bedford
Berg, Elizabeth – The Handmaid and the Carpenter
Bishop, Nic – Frogs
Bitton-Jackson, Livia – I Have Lived a Thousand Years
Blue, Rose (with Naden, Corinne) – Ron’s Big Mission
Bluemle, Elizabeth – Dogs on the Bed
Blume, Judy – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Blume, Judy – Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Boston Weatherford, Carole – Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Boyne, John – The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Boynton, Sandra – Consider Love, It’s Moods and Many Ways
Bradbury, Ray – The Halloween Tree
Brady, Catherine – The Mechanics of Falling and Other Stories
Breen, Susan – The Fiction Class
Brenner, Marie – Apples and Oranges, My Brother and Me, Lost and Found
Bridges, Ruby – Through My Eyes
Brown, Peter – The Curious Garden
Brown- Waite, Eve – First Comes Loves, Then Comes Malaria
Buckley, Carol – Travels with Tarra
Buckley, Carol – Just for Elephants
Buckley, Michael – The Sisters Grimm, The Fairy Tale Detectives
Bunting, Eve – Who Was Born this Special Day?
Burg, Ann – All the Broken Pieces
Burg, Shana – A Thousand Never Evers

C

Campbell Bartoletti, Susan – The Boy Who Dared
Campbell Bartoletti, Susan – Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow
Cannon, A.E. – Charlotte’s Rose
Carman, Patrick – Ghost in the Machine by Patrick Carman
Carman, Patrick – Skeleton Creek
Carson Levine, Gail – Ella Enchanted
Center, Katherine – Everyone is Beautiful
Center, Katherine – Get Lucky
Center, Katherine – The Bright Side of Disaster
Chaltas, Thalia – Because I Am Furniture
Cheadle, Don (with John Prendergast) – Not On Our Watch
Claus, Elsbeth – Mrs. Claus Explains It All: (At Last) Answers to the Questions Real Kids Ask!
Clayson Johnson, Jane – I Am a Mother
Cleave, Chris – Little Bee
Coelho, Paula – The Alchemist
Coetzee, J.M. – Slow Man
Coles, Robert – The Story of Ruby Bridges
Collins, Peggy – In the Garden
Collins, Ross – Dear Vampa
Collins, Suzanne – Catching Fire
Collins, Suzanne – The Hunger Games
Coman, Carolyn – What Jamie Saw
Cook, Michelle – Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change
Cottin, Menena – The Black Book of Colors
Cotton, Ronald (with Jennifer Thompson-Cannino) – Picking Cotton, Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
Cottonwood, Joe – Quake
Craighead George, Jean – Julie of the Wolves
Crimi, Carolyn – Where’s My Mummy
Curtis, Christopher Paul – Elijah of Buxton
Cushman, Karen – The Midwife’s Apprentice

D

Dahl, Roald – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dahl, Roald – Fantastic Mr. Fox
Dahl, Roald – James and the Giant Peach
Dahl, Roald -The Witches
Dalgliesh, Alice – The Courage of Sarah Noble
Dallas, Sandra – Prayers for Sale
D’Amico, Carmelia & Steven – Ella the Elegant Elephant, Ella Sets the Stage, Ella Takes the Cake and Ella Sets Sail
Dashner, James – The 13th Reality: The Hunt for Dark Infinity
Dashner, James – The 13th Reality, A Journal of Curious Letters
Deedy, Carmen Agra – 14 Cows for America
Deng, Benson & Alephonsion – They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys From Sudan
DiCamillo, Kate -The Magician’s Elephant
DiCamillo, Kate -The Tiger Rising
DiCamillo, Kate -The Tale of Despereaux
DiCamillo, Kate -Because of Winn-Dixie
DiCamillo, Kate -Great Joy
DiCamillo, Kate -The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Dirie, Waris -Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad
Doctorow, Cory -Little Brother
Dormen, Lesley -The Best Place to Be
Durand, Hallie – Dessert First
Durham, David Anthony – Gabriel’s Story

E

Ebershoff, David -The 19th Wife
Edwards, Kim -The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Eeckhout, Emmanuelle -There’s No Such Thing as Ghosts
Eggers, Dave -What is the What
Ellis, Ann Dee -Everything is Fine
Ellis, Ann Dee -This is What I Did
Ellis, Deborah -The Heaven Shop
Ellis, Deborah -Lunch with Lenin and Other Stories
Ellis, Deborah -Parvana’s Journey
Ellis, Deborah -The Breadwinner
Ellis, Deborah -Mud City
Evans, Richard Paul – The Christmas Box
Evans, Richard Paul -The Christmas Box Miracle
Evans, Richard Paul – Finding Noel
Evans, Richard Paul -The Gift
Evans, Richard Paul -The Light of Christmas

F

Ferris, Joshua – The Unnamed
Fitmaurice, Kathryn -The Year the Swallows Came Early
Fleischman, Sid -The Whipping Boy
Filipovic, Zlata -Zlata’s Diary, A Child’s Life in Sarajevo
Forkner, Tina Ann -Ruby Among Us
Forman, Gayle – If I Stay
Fox, Paula -The Slave Dancer
Frazee, Marla -Santa Claus the World’s Number One Toy Expert
Frazee, Marla -Walk On! A Guide for Babies of All Ages
Freedman, Russell -The Voice That Challenged A Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
Freedman, Russell -Freedom Walkers, The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Freeman, Ru -A Disobedient Girl
Freese, Mathias B.- Down to a Sunless Sea
Fullerton, Alma -Libertad

G

Gaiman, Neil -The Graveyard Book
Galante, Cecilia -The Patron Saint of Butterflies
Galloway, Steven -The Cellist of Sarajevo
Garton Scanlon, Liz -All the World
George Speare, Elizabeth -The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Gephart, Donna -As If Being 12 3/4 Isn’t Bad Enough, My Mother is Running for President
Gilbert, Elizabeth -Eat Pray Love
Goldberg, Myla -Bee Season
Gourevitch, Philip -We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Griffin, Lynne – Sea Escape
Grime, Nikki -Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope
Grogan, John -A Very Marley Christmas

H

Haddon, Mark – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Haines, Lise -Girl in the Arena
Hale, Shannon -The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale
Hale, Shannon -Austenland
Hale, Shannon -Book of a Thousand Days
Hale, Shannon – Princess Academy
Hale, Shannon (with Dean Hale) – Calamity Jack
Hale, Shannon (with Dean Hale) -Rapunzel’s Revenge
Halfmann, Janet – Little Skink’s Tail
Halse Anderson, Laurie -Chains
Halse Anderson, Laurie – Speak
Halse Anderson, Laurie -Wintergirls
Hardy, Edward -Keeper and Kid
Hari, Daoud -The Translator, A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur
Harman, Patricia – The Blue Cotton Gown, A Midwife’s Memoir
Harrington, Karen -Janeology
Harris, Paul -The Secret Keeper
Harris Douga, Terrell -That Went Well, Adventures in Caring for My Sister
Helgerson, Joseph – Horns & Wrinkles
Hemphill, Helen -The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones
Henkin, Joshua -Matrimony
Hesse, Karen -Out of the Dust
Hesse, Karen – Witness
Holloway, Kris – Monique and the Mango Rains
Holm, Jennifer – Penny from Heaven
Homes, A.M. – The Mistress’s Daughter
Hoose, Phillip – Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Hopkins, Ellen -Identical
Hornby, Steven -Secrets of a Christmas Box
Hosseini, Khaled -The Kite Runner
Hosseini, Khaled -A Thousand Splendid Suns
Hrdlitschka, Shelley -Sister Wife
Huchet Bishop, Claire – All Alone
Hughes, Langston – The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Hughes, Lanston – My People

M

Maclachlan, Patricia – Sarah, Plain and Tall
Magoon, Kekla – The Rock and the River
Malaspina, Ann – Finding Lincoln
Mam, Somaly – The Road of Lost Innocence, The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
Marlowe, Jen – Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival
Martin, C.K. Kelly – I Know It’s Over
McBride, Susan – The Debs
McCall Smith, Alexandar – The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
McCarty, Peter – Jeremy Draws a Monster
McCormick, Patricia – Cut
McCormick, Patricia – My Brother’s Keeper
McCormick, Patricia – Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick
McCormick, Patricia – Sold
McCourt, Frank – Angela and the Baby Jesus
McCracken, Elizabeth – An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
McEwan, Ian – Saturday
McKay, Amy – The Birth House
McMann, Lisa – Fade
McMann, Lisa – Wake
Mead, Alice – Year of No Rain
Meister, Ellen – The Smart One
Meldrum, Christina – Madapple
Meyer, Stephenie – Breaking Dawn
Meyer, Stephenie – The Host
Miller, Kristen – Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City
Mochizuki, Ken – Baseball Saved Us
Mochizuki, Ken – Heroes by Ken Mochizuki
Mochizuki, Ken – Passage to Freedom, The Sugihara Story
Mohammed, Khadra (with Karen Williams) – My Name is Sangoel
Monroe, Colleen – A Wish to Be a Christmas Tree
Moore, Julianne – Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully
Mora, Pat - Gracias Thanks
Mora, Pat – Yum! ¡MmMm! ¡Qué Rico! Americas’ Sproutings
Mukherjee, Bharati – Jasmine
Mull, Brandon – Fablehaven
Murphy, Louise – The True Story of Hansel and Gretel

N

Naden, Corinne (with Blue, Rose) – Ron’s Big Mission
Nangle, Paula – The Leper Compound
Napoli, Jo – Zel
Nash, Jennie – The Last Beach Bungalow
Nash, Jennie – The Only True Genius in the Family
Nash, Jennie – The Threadbare Heart
Nazer, Mende – Slave: My True Story
Nelson, Kadir – We Are the Ship, The Story of the Negro League Baseball
Neri, G. - Chess Rumble
Nethery, Mary – Mary Veronica’s Egg
Nethery, Mary (with Kirby Larson) – The Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival
Niederhoffer, Galt – The Romantics
Norman, Kim – Crocodaddy
Novet Saint-Lot, Katia – Amadi’s Snowman

O

O’Roark Dowell, Frances – Dovey Coe
O’Roark Dowell, Frances – Shooting the Moon
Otsuka, Julie – When the Emperor Was Divine

P

Parry, Rosanne – Heart of a Shepherd
Paterson, Katherine – A Midnight Clear, Selected Family Christmas Stories
Paterson, Katherine – Bridge to Terabithia
Paterson, Katherine – The Great Gilly Hopkins
Patricellli, Leslie – All Board Book Titles
Patron, Susan -The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
Paulsen, Gary – Nightjohn
Pearson, Mary E. – The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Peck, Richard – A Long Way from Chicago
Peck, Richard – A Season of Gifts
Peck, Richard – A Year Down Yonder
Peck, Richard – On the Wings of Heroes
Pennypacker, Sara – Clementine
Pennypacker, Sara – The Talented Clementine
Pennypacker, Sara – Clementin’s Letter
Perkins, Lynne Rae – Criss Cross
Perl, Erica S. – Chicken Butt!
Perl, Erica S. – Ninety-Three in My Family
Perry, John – The Book That Eats People
Picoult, Jodi – Change of Heart
Picoult, Jodi – Plain Truth
Picoult, Jodi – The Tenth Circle
Picoult, Jodi – Nineteen Minutes
Portis, Antoinette – A Penguin Story
Powers, Kim – Capote in Kansas, A Ghost Story
Prendergast, John (with Don Cheadle) – Not On Our Watch

Q

Quartey, Kwei – Wife of the Gods, An Inspector Darko Dawson Mystery

R

Raleigh Baskin, Nora – Anything but Typical
Reagan, Jean – Always My Brother
Reilly Giff, Patricia – Lily’s Crossing
Reilly Giff, Patricia – Pictures of Hollis Woods
Rex, Michael – Goodnight Goon, A Petrifying Parody
Riordan, Rick – The Lightning Thief, Book One of Percy Jackson & The Olympians
Rockwell, Thomas – How to Eat Fried Worms
Rodman, Mary Ann – Jimmy’s Stars
Rodman, Mary Ann – Yankee Girl
Rodriguez, Deborah – Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
de Rosnay, Tatiana – Sarah’s Key
Rowling, J.K.. – The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Roy, Jennifer – Yellow Star
Russell, Rachel Renee – Dork Diaries: Tales from a NOT-SO-Fabulous Life
Russo, Richard – That Old Cape Magic
Rylant, Cynthia – All in a Day
Rylant, Cynthia – Missing May
Rylant, Cynthia- Snow

S

de Saint-Exupery, Antoine – The Little Prince
de los Santos, Marisa – Love Walked In
Schiltz, Laura Amy – Good Masters! Sweet Ladies
Schmidt, Gary – The Wednesday Wars
Schroeder, Lisa – I Heart You, You Haunt Me
Schwartz, Alvin – Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Collected from Folklore
Shields, C. Comfort – Surviving Ben’s Suicide, A Woman’s Journey of Self-Discovery
Shore, Diane Z. – This is the Feast
Scott, Elizabeth – Living Dead Girl
Scott, Elizabeth – Something, Maybe
Sebold, Alice – The Almost Moon
Sedaris, David – Holidays on Ice
Sendak, Maurice – Where the Wild Things Are
Setterfield, Diane – The Thirteenth Tale
Sherman, Rachel – The First Hurt, Stories
Shaffer, Mary Ann (with Annie Barrows) – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Sijie, Dai – Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Simmons, Kelly – Standing Still
Smith, Betty – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smolinksi, Jill – The Next Thing On My List
Snicket, Lemony – The Lump of Coal
Soo, Kean – Jellaby
Soper, Kathryn Lynard – The Year My Son and I Were Born: A Story of Down Syndrome, Motherhood, and Self-Discovery
Sparks, Nicholas – The Lucky One
Spencer, Irene – Shattered Dreams, My Life as a Polygamist’s Wife
Sperry, Armstrong – Call It Courage
Spiegelman, Art – The Complete Maus
Spires, Ashley – Binky the Space Cat
Sppinelli, Eileen – Where I Live
Stead, Rebecca – When You Reach Me
Steidle, Brian – The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur
Steinbeck, John – Of Mice and Men
Stockett, Kathryn – The Help
Stott, Ann – Always

T

Tamaki, Mariko – Emiko Superstar
Tammet, Daniel – Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
Tarshis, Lauren – Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
Taylor, Mildred D. – The Well
Ten Boom, Corrie – The Hiding Place
Thompson-Cannino, Jennifer (with Ronald Cotton) – Picking Cotton, Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

U

Uchida, Yoshicko – Journey to Topaz
Urban, Linda – Mouse Was Mad

V

Venkatraman, Padma – Climbing the Stairs
Vernick, Audrey – Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten?

W

Waddell, Martin – Room for a Little One, A Christmas Tale
Walker, Anna – I Love Christmas
Wall, Elissa – Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
Watt, Melanie – Scaredy Squirrel at Night
Walton, Rick – A Very Hairy Scary Story
Weatherford, Carole Boston – Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Whiffen, Leeann – A Child’s Journey Out of Autism: One Family’s Story of Living in Hope and Finding a Cure
Whitney, Tim – Thanksgiving at the Inn
Williams, Mary – Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan
Wing, Natasha – An Eye for Color: The Story of Josef Albers
Woolfolk Cross, Donna – Pope Joan
West, Michael Lee – Mermaids in the Basement
Wight, Eric – Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom
Willems, Mo – Leonardo the Terrible Monster
Williams, Karen Lynn (with Khadra Mohammed) – My Name is Sangoel
Wing Smith, Emily – The Way He Lived
Winter, Kathryn – Katarina
Wolf, Joan M. – Someone Named Eva
Woodson, Jacqueline – After Tupac & D Foster
Woodson, Jacqueline – Behind You
Woodson, Jacqueline -Feathers
Woodson, Jacqueline – Hush
Woodson, Jacqueline – I Hadn’t Mean to Tell You This
Woodson, Jacqueline – If You Come Softly
Woodson, Jacqeuline – Locomotion
Woodson, Jacqueline – Miracle’s Boys
Woodson, Jacqueline – Peace, Locomotion
Wodson, Jacqueline - Show Way

X

Xinran - Sky Burial

Y

Yeahpau, Thomas – X-Indian Chronicles
Yohalem, Eve – Escape Under the Forever Sky
Yolen, Jane – Briar Rose
Yolen, Jane – The Devil’s Arithmetic
Yoo, Paula – Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story

Z

Zarr, Sara – Once Was Los
Zarr, Sara – Story of a Girl
Zarr, Sara – Sweethearts
Zevin, Gabrielle – Elsewhere
Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn – 42 Miles
Zusak, Markus – The Book Thief
Zusak, Markus – I Am The Messenger

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Watch for these Upcoming Book Reviews

(in other words, my read but not yet reviewed list)

Fiction

A Circle of Souls by Preetham Grandhi
Recovering Charles by Jason Wright
Every Last Cuckoo by Kate Maloy
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
Torn by God by Zoe Murdock
Searching for Eternity by Elizabeth Musser
Silver Shoes by Paul Miles Schneider
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Last Will of Moriah Leahy by Therese Walsh
I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells
Room by Emma Donoghue
Unformed Landscape by Peter Stamm
Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy
How Dolly Parton Saved My Life by Charlotte Connors
In the Woods by Tana French
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
The Things they Carried by Tim O’Brien

Young Adult Fiction

Uglies by Scott Westerfield
Pretties by Scott Westerfield
Specials by Scott Westerfield
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Liar by Justine Larbalestier
The Teashop Girls by Laura Schaefer
Love, Lies, and Texas Dips by Susan McBride
Love You, Hate You, Miss You by Elizabeth Scott
Keesha’s House by Helen Frost
The Dark Divine by Bree Despain
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Boys, Girls and Other Hazardous Materials by Rosalind Wiseman
Jumping Off Swings by Jo Knowles
Nothing but Ghosts by Beth Kephart
A Loser’s Guide to Life and Love by A.E Cannon
Slob by Ellen Potter
The Surrender Tree, Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
Mare’s War by Tanita S. Davis
Artichoke’s Heart by Suzanne Supplee
Keep Sweet by Michelle Dominguez Green
The Ring by Bobbie Pyron
Split by Swati Avasthi
Three Rivers Rising by Jame Richards
Matched by Ally Condie
Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins
Beautiful by Amy Reed
The Blonde of the Joke by Bennett Madison
Three Quarters Dead by Richard Peck
Yummy by G. Neri
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
Glimpse by Carol Lynch Williams
Dangerous Neighbors by Beth Kephart
Scars by Cheryl Rainfield

Middle Grade Fiction

Operation Yes by Sara Holmes
The Battle of the Red Hot Pepper Weenies and Other Warped and Creepy Tales by David Lubar
Captain Nobody by Dean Pitchford
Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It by Sundee Tucker Frazier
My Teacher is an Alien by Bruce Coville
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
My Brother the Dog by Kim Williams-Justesen
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
When Zachary Beaver Comes to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt
The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
In Grandpa’s House by Philip Sendak
Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom by Frank Wright
Romana Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Clearly
A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
Clementine, Friend of the Week by Sara Pennypacker
Trackers by Patrick Carmen
Boom by Mark Haddon
Tales from a Not So Popular Party Girl by Rachel Renee Russell
Cracker, The Best Dog in Vietnam by Cynthia Kadohata
Bink and Gollie by Kate DiCamillo
Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Healing Spells by Kimberly Griffiths Little
My Brother the Dog by Kim Williams Justensen

Non-Fiction

Shattered Silence: An Untold Story of a Serial Killer’s Daughter by Melissa G. Moore.
My Bridges of Hope: Searching for Life and Love After Auschwitz by by Livia Bitton-Jackson
A Place to Hide: True Stories of Holocaust Rescues by Jayne Pettit (juvenile)
Tone Deaf in Bangkok and Other Places by Janet Brown
Cult Insanity: A Memoir of Polygamy, Prophets, and Blood Atonement by Irene Spencer
Tone Deaf in Bangkok and Other Places by Janet Brown, Photographs by Nana Chen
Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz by Eva Mozes Kor
Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth and Everyday Magic by Martha Beck
Church of Lies by Flora Jessop