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Thursday, June 25, 2009

A list of the kids books I've read since 1995

I've been keeping tracks of all the books I've reading since 1995. Here are all the children's books with the author's last name. I have starred those books I particularly liked. Have you read any of these?

. . . . and Now Miguel, Krumgold
A Corner of the Universe, Martin
A Dictionary of Mythical Places, Palmer
A Girl named Disaster, Farmer
A History of the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, Smith
A Jar of Dreams, Uchida
*A Long Way from Chicago, Peck
A New England Girl’s Journal, Blos
A Pack of Lies, McCaughrean
A Proud Taste for Scarlett and Miniver, Konigsburg
*A Single Shard, Park
A String In the Harp, Bond
*A Year Down Yonder, Peck
Abel’s Island, Steig
*Abigail Adams, Bober
*Absolutely Normal Chaos, Creech
*Al Capone Does my Shirts, Choldenko
Alannah: The First Adventure, Pierce
*American Born Chinese, Yang
American Dragons, Yep
*Amos Fortune, Free Man, Yates
Artemis Fowl, Colfer
At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England, Myers
Autobiography of my Dead Brother, Myers
Bad Boy, Myers
*Because of Winn Dixie, Dicamarillo
*Becoming Naomi Leon, Ryan
*Belle Prater's Boy, White
Boston Jane, Holm
Breathing Underwater, Flinn
Bud, not Buddy, Curtis
Bull Run, Fleischman
*Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Latham
Catherine, Called Birdy, Cushman
*Chasing Redbird, Creech
Chasing Vermeer, Balliett
Child of the Owl, Yep
Dave at Night, Levine
Dear Mr. Henshaw, Cleary
Den of the White Fox, Namioki
Desperaux, The Story of a Mouse, DiCamillo
Dragon of the Lost Sea, Yep
Dragon Steel, Yep
Dragon’s Gate, Yep
*Dragonwings, Yep
Each little bird that sings,Wiles
*Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery, Freedman
Ella Enchanted, Levin
Esperanza Rising, Ryan
*Everything on a Waffle, Horvath
Faith and the Electric Dogs, Jennings
Gates of Excellence, Paterson
Gathering Blue, Lowry
Getting Near to Baby, Couloumbis
Go and Come Back, Abelove
Harriet the Spy, Fitzhugh
Harris and Me, Paulsen
*Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone, Rowling
*Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Rowling
*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Rowling
*Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Rowling
*Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Rowling
*Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince, Rowling
*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Rowling
Heir Apparent, Velde
*Holes, Sachar
*Hope was Here, Bauer
I Hadn’t meant to tell you this, Woodson
I, Juan de Pareja, de Trevino
Ida B, Hannigan
In the Hand of the Goddess, Pierce
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, Lord
Inkheart, Funke
It’s Like This, Cat, Neville
*Jacob Have I Loved, Paterson
Jip, His Story, Paterson
Johnny Tremain, Forbes
Journey to J’Burg, Naidoo
Just Ella, Levine
Just Juice, Hesse
Kira, Kira, Kitahara
Kit’s Wilderness, Almond
Kneeknock Rise, Babbitt
Li Lun, Lad of Courage, Treffinger
Lily's Crossing, Griff
Lionboy, Corder
Lioness Rampant, Pierce
*Locomotion, Woodson
Love Ruby Lavender, Wiles
Lyddie, Paterson
Maniac Magee, Spinelli
Mara, Daughter of the Nile, McGraw
Memoirs of a Bookbat, Lasky
Minnie, Schmidt
Miracles on Maple Hill, Sorenson
Missing May, Rylant
Monster, Myers
Montmorency, Updale
Mountain Light, Yep
My Dad’s a Birdman, Almond
My Name is Maria Isabel, Flor Ada
Nightjohn, Paulsen
North to Freedom, Holm and Kingsland
*Northern Lights, Donnelly
Number the Stars, Lowry
Once Upon a Marigold, Ferris
One More River to Cross, Myers
Ophelia, Klein
Our Only May Amelia, Holm
Out of the Dust, Hesse
Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe. Greene
*Pictures of Hollis Woods, Giff
Princess Academy, Hale
Princess Diaries, Cabot
Princess in the Spotlight, Cabot
Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom, Paterson
Red Scarf Girl, Jiang
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Taylor
*Roller Skates, Sawyer
Ruby Holler, Creech
Sabriel, Nix
Sacajawea, Bruchac
Secret Letters from 0 to 10, Morgenstern
*Seedfolks, Fleishman
Seesaw Girl, Park
Shabanu, Staples
*Shadow in the North, Pullman
Shadow of a Bull, Wojciechowska
Shadow Spinner, Fletcher
Shakespeare’s Scribe, Blackwood
Shen of the Sea, Chrisman
Shiloh, Reynolds
Shizuko’s Daughter, Mori
Silent to the Bone, Konigsburg
*Skellig, Almond
Small Steps, Sachar
Stargirl, Spinelli
Strawberry Girl, Lenski
Surviving the Applewhites, Tolan
Tangerine, Bloor
*The Amber Spyglass, Pullman
The Amulet of Samarkand, Taylor
The Baboon King, Quintana
*The Battle of the Labyrinth, Riordan
*The Book Thief, Zusak
The Breadwinner, Ellis
The Cat Who Went to Heaven, Coatsworth
The City of Ember, Duprau
The City of the Beasts, Allende
The Clay Marble, Ho
The Devil’s Arithmatic, Yolen
The Devil’s Storybook, Babbitt
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, Farmer
The Egypt Game, Snyder
The Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien
The Fledgling, Langton
The Flight of the Swallows, Buss
The Foundling, Alexander
The Friends, Yumoto
The Gift of the River, Meadowcroft
The Giver, Lowry
*The Golden Compass, Pullman
The Golden Goblet, McGraw
The Grass Dancer, Susan Power
The Great Gilly Hopkins, Paterson
The Great Wheel, Lawson
*The Green Book, Walsh
The Headless Cupid, Snyder
*The Heart of a Chief, Bruchac
The Higher Power of Lucky, Patron and Phelan
The House of the Scorpion, Farmer
The Hundred Dresses, Estes
*The Kite Flyer, McCaughrean
The Last Book in the Universe, Philbrick
*The Last Olympian, Riordan
The Last Safe Place on Earth, Peck
*The Lightning Thief, Riordan
The Lost Garden, Yep
The Making of Megaboy, Wallace
The Master Puppeteer, Paterson
The Midwife’s Apprentice, Cushman
*The Misfits, Howe
The Monument, Paulsen
The Mulberry Project, Park
The Music of Dolphins, Hesse
*The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey, Stewart
*The Mysterious Benedict Society, Stewart
*The New Policeman, Thompson
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, Konigsberg
*The Penderwicks, Birdsall
The People of Sparks, Duprau
*The Perilous Gard, Pope
*The Prydain Chronicles, Alexander
The Rainbow People, Yep
The Ramsay Scallop, Temple
The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen, Alexander
The Return of the King, Tolkien
*The Ruby in the Smoke, Pullman
The Samurai's Tale, Haugaard
*The Sea of Monsters, Riordan
The Secret of the Andes, Clark
The Shakespeare Stealer, Blackwood
The Slave Dancer, Fox
The Star Fisher, Yep
The Stuff of Stars, Paterson
*The Subtle Knife, Pullman
The Summer of the Swans, Byars
The Supernaturalist, Colfer
The Thief Lord, Funke
*The Thief, Turner
*The Titan’s Curse, Riordan
The Trolls, Horvath
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi
*The Twenty-one Balloons, Du Bois
The Two Princesses of Bamarre, Levine
The Two Towers, Tolkien
*The View from Saturday, Konigsburg
The Wanderer, Creech
*The Watcher, Howe
*The Watsons go to Birmingham — 1963, Curtis
The Wheel on the School, De Jong
The Whipping Boy, Fleischman
The Wish, Levine
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Speare
*The Wolf, Herrick
The Woman who Rides Like a Man, Pierce
The Year of Impossible Goodbyes, Choi
Thimble Summer, Enright
*Tiger in the Well, Pullman
Time Stops for No Mouse, Hoeye
*Up a Road Slowly, Hunt
*Walk Two Moons, Creech
What Jamie Saw, Coman
When I was Puerto Rican, Santiago
When she was Good, Mazer
Whirligig, Fleischman
Whittington, Armstrong
Wishing Moon, Tunnell
Worlds of Childhood: The Art and Craft of Writing for Children, Zinsser
Yes is Better than No, Bird Baylor
Young Fu of the Upper Yangzte, Lewis and Low
Zlata’s Diary, Filipovic

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