Title, Creators, Comments / Reviews | Ages | Date Added | |||
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1. The Recess Queen (Hardcover) Author: Alexis O'neill Publisher: Spoken Arts |
N/A |
3/17/2008 Add | |||
Siri said: Alexis O'Neill and Laura Huliska-Beith have created a treat for everyone who's ever had, or ever will have to survive playground politics. With its cheerfully oblivious heroine and spot-on pairing of...more tags: I read , Inspired me , I recommend | |||||
641 Reviews | |||||
2. The Pout-Pout Fish (A Pout-Pout Fish Adventure) (Hardcover) Author: Deborah Diesen Illustrator: Dan Hanna, Daniel X. Hanna Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Ages 4-8 |
3/17/2008 Add | |||
Siri said: If the Pout-Pout Fish just looked around a little more carefully, he couldn't have pouted 3/4 of the way through the book. Dan Hanna's swimmy-crawly-creepies populate the pages, making them oh-so frie...more tags: I read , Inspired me , I recommend | |||||
2,502 Reviews | |||||
3. Humphrey's First Christmas (Hardcover) Publisher: Ideals Children's Books |
Ages 4-8 |
3/17/2008 Add | |||
Siri said: There's a little bit of Humphrey in all of us: that ever-so-slightly-complainy inner voice, full of wishful thinking. You're in love with his perfectly goofy face by the middle of the book -- and by t...more tags: I read , Inspired me , I recommend | |||||
123 Reviews | |||||
4. Jitterbug Jam (New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books (Awards)... Author: Barbara Jean Hicks Illustrator: Alexis Deacon Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Ages 4-8 |
3/17/2008 Add | |||
Siri said: This is a read over (and over and over again) read-aloud book. The tempo and craft of the words and pictures do something together that makes it stand out and stick with you — whether or not you've...more tags: I read , Inspired me , I recommend | |||||
67 Reviews | |||||
5. Sonny's War (Paperback) Author: Valerie Hobbs Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Young Adults |
3/17/2008 Add | |||
Siri said: Hobbs builds characters and plots like a devious angel, tricking me into caring way too much and then making me cry. She did it with Defiance, too. I have to read more. tags: I read , Inspired me , I recommend | |||||
7 Reviews | |||||
6. The One Where the Kid Nearly Jumps to His Death and Lands in California ... Author: Mary Hershey Publisher: Razorbill |
Young Adults |
3/17/2008 Add | |||
Siri said: Queen of the long involved title, Hershey got me hooked on this one without plying me with chocolate. Alastair's voice is perfect and the other characters in the book are interesting and full of surp...more tags: I read , Inspired me , I recommend | |||||
43 Reviews | |||||
7. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm (Paperback) Author: Nancy Farmer Publisher: Puffin |
Young Adults |
3/17/2008 Add | |||
Siri said: I love all Nancy Farmer's books, especially this one, The Sea of Trolls and The Land of the Silver Apples, A Girl Named Disaster, Do you Know Me, The House of the Scorpion, The Warm Place — okay, yo...more tags: I read , , I recommend | |||||
1,354 Reviews | |||||
8. Snow-walker (Hardcover) Author: Catherine Fisher Publisher: Eos |
Young Adults |
3/17/2008 Add | |||
Siri said: All her books are good, but this is my favorite. Sort of the ultimate Old Norse "road" trip, it is full of betrayals, hardship, bravery, witchcraft and redemption, told so naturally that you're up ha...more tags: I recommend , I read | |||||
159 Reviews | |||||
9. Dealing with Dragons: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Book One (Hardcover) Author: Patricia C. Wrede Publisher: Jane Yolen Books |
Young Adults |
3/17/2008 Add | |||
Siri said: My son and I laughed through all the books in this series, which turns fairy tales upside-down, inside-out and into one silly and satisfying saga. After we read them, we bought all four audio tapes, ...more tags: I read , I recommend | |||||
4,912 Reviews | |||||
10. A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories (Newbery Honor Book) (Hardco... Author: Richard Peck Publisher: Dial |
Young Adults |
3/17/2008 Add | |||
Siri said: Grandma Dowdell is my hero. I want to be like her when I grow up. tags: I read , Inspired me , I recommend | |||||
1,547 Reviews | |||||
11. The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 (Newbery Honor Book) (Hardcover) Author: Christopher Paul Curtis Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers |
Young Adults |
3/17/2008 Add | |||
Siri said: Anything by Christopher Paul Curtis is going to be a mix of entertaining and way deep. He gets you laughing, feeling warm and fuzzy, then hits you with a jolt of the flip side. He's one of the best ...more tags: I read , Inspired me , I recommend | |||||
3,180 Reviews | |||||
12. Gregor The Overlander (Underland Chronicles) (Hardcover) Author: Suzanne Collins Publisher: Scholastic Press |
Ages 9-12 |
3/17/2008 Add | |||
Siri said: Suzanne Collins made me love two giant cockroaches, giant bats of all sorts, and even a very giant scary rat. Okay, I already liked rats and bats, but the respect and concern for cockroaches took me ...more tags: I read , I recommend | |||||
6,728 Reviews | |||||
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