| Title, Creators, Comments / Reviews | Ages | Date Added | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Moomin Book Seven: The Complete Lars Jansson Comic Strip (Hardcover) Author: Lars Jansson Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly |
N/A |
12/8/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: Moominpappa. On a Farm. Yeah, you know you want it. tags: I read | |||||
| 9 Reviews | |||||
| 2. Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite (Hardcover) Author: Barry Deutsch Publisher: Amulet Books |
Ages 9-12 |
12/8/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: A more complete story than the first. I love Fruma. And Mirka's siblings are pretty rad, too! tags: I read | |||||
| 53 Reviews | |||||
| 3. My Name Is Not Easy (Hardcover) Author: Debby Dahl Edwardson Publisher: Amazon Children's Publishing |
Young Adults |
12/8/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: I'm getting a signed copy for my Mom. tags: I read , I recommend | |||||
| 451 Reviews | |||||
| 4. Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga) (Hardcover) Author: Lois McMaster Bujold Publisher: Baen |
N/A |
12/8/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: That Idiot Ivan Falls in Love. And she's just right for him - no ambition! tags: I read | |||||
| 1 Reviews | |||||
| 5. Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother (H... Author: Eve LaPlante Publisher: Free Press |
N/A |
11/5/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: You'd think, all the Alcott bios I've read, I'd know it all. I don't, and neither do you. tags: I read | |||||
| 374 Reviews | |||||
| 6. Ghost Hunters of the South (Paperback) Author: Andrew Langley Publisher: University Press of Mississippi |
N/A |
11/5/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: Think of it as a peek into a subculture. tags: I read | |||||
| 5 Reviews | |||||
| 7. Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality (Hardcover) Author: Hanne Blank Publisher: Beacon Press |
N/A |
11/5/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: Enlightening, if you'll let it. tags: I read | |||||
| 208 Reviews | |||||
| 8. Dodger (Library Binding) Author: Neil and Terry Pratchett Gaiman Publisher: HarperCollins |
Young Adults |
11/5/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: Second-rate Pratchett is still pretty good. tags: I read | |||||
| 2,932 Reviews | |||||
| 9. Hexwood (Hardcover) Author: Diana Wynne Jones Publisher: Greenwillow Books |
Young Adults |
10/24/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: I read this incredibly complicated book with a migraine, and with ease. That's how good she is. tags: I read | |||||
| 288 Reviews | |||||
| 10. Come August, Come Freedom: The Bellows, The Gallows, and The Black Gener... Author: Gigi Amateau Publisher: Candlewick |
Young Adults |
10/24/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: Only slave stories are allowed to be tragedies in today's market tags: I read | |||||
| 128 Reviews | |||||
| 11. A Sudden Wild Magic (Hardcover) Author: Diana Wynne Jones Publisher: William Morrow & Co |
N/A |
10/24/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: Better the second time around. Second-tier Jones, so - still better than most people's books. tags: I read , I recommend | |||||
| 144 Reviews | |||||
| 12. The Ogre Downstairs (Hardcover) Author: Diana Wynne Jones Publisher: Greenwillow |
Young Adults |
10/24/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: Gwinny's attempt to murder the ogre, still classic! tags: I read , I recommend | |||||
| 91 Reviews | |||||
| 13. Tales from Lovecraft Middle School #1: Professor Gargoyle (Hardcover) Author: Charles Gilman Publisher: Quirk Books |
Young Adults |
10/24/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: Hmmm...not really Lovecraftian enough. Needs more adjectives! tags: I read | |||||
| 140 Reviews | |||||
| 14. Terrible Secrets of the Tell-All Club (Hardcover) Author: Catherine Stier Illustrator: Barzak, Shane 'Barzak' Clester Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company |
Ages 9-12 |
10/17/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: Ah, middle school. Don't miss it! tags: I read | |||||
| 32 Reviews | |||||
| 15. Written for Children: An Outline of English-Language Children's Literatu... Author: John Townsend Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books |
Young Adults |
10/17/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: Critical history for perspective tags: I read | |||||
| 5 Reviews | |||||
| 16. Prairie Fever: British Aristocrats in the American West 1830-1890 (Hardc... Author: Peter Pagnamenta Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company |
N/A |
10/17/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: Plenty of material here for any number of westerns tags: I read in galley | |||||
| 40 Reviews | |||||
| 17. Publishing the Family (New Americanists) (Paperback) Author: June Howard Publisher: Duke University Press Books |
N/A |
10/17/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: When will we learn that this sort of experiment never works as literature, only as sociology? tags: I read in galley | |||||
| 1 Reviews | |||||
| 18. The War of the Birds and the Beasts and Other Russian Tales (Hardcover) Author: Arthur Ransome Publisher: J. Cape |
N/A |
10/17/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: Folklore, the best teacher tags: I read | |||||
| 4 Reviews | |||||
| 19. At Home on the Range (Hardcover) Author: Margaret Yardley Potter Publisher: McSweeney's |
N/A |
9/26/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: I skipped parts tags: I read in galley | |||||
| 109 Reviews | |||||
| 20. Suffering Succotash: A Picky Eater's Quest to Understand Why We Hate the... Author: Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic Publisher: Perigee Trade |
N/A |
9/26/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: This was enlightening. Some of this should be more widely known. tags: I read in galley | |||||
| 1 Reviews | |||||
| 21. Bones of Faerie: Book 1 (The Bones of Faerie Trilogy) (Hardcover) Author: Janni Lee Simner Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers |
Young Adults |
9/26/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: I have to get the other books. tags: I read , I recommend | |||||
| 1,033 Reviews | |||||
| 22. Thresholds (Magic Next Door) (Hardcover) Author: Nina , Kiriki Hoffman Publisher: Viking Juvenile |
Ages 9-12 |
9/26/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: Not bad tags: I read | |||||
| 59 Reviews | |||||
| 23. All Clear (Hardcover) Author: Connie Willis Publisher: Spectra |
N/A |
9/20/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: Time Travel Done Right. After Black Out, comes All Clear. Make sure you read the first book, or the second will confuse you tags: I read , I recommend | |||||
| 2,697 Reviews | |||||
| 24. Pegasus (Hardcover) Author: Robin McKinley Publisher: Putnam Juvenile |
Young Adults |
9/20/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: McKinley strikes again! Now I need the second half of the story. tags: I read , I recommend | |||||
| 1,168 Reviews | |||||
| 25. The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour (Hardcover) Author: Michael D. Beil Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Ages 9-12 |
9/20/2012 Add | |||
| Peni said: Well, that's old-fashioned! Too many grown-ups. tags: I read | |||||
| 386 Reviews | |||||
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