Books of the Month: April 2012

Books read last month:

• Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
• The Mother-Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick
• The Vietnam War: A Graphic History by Dwight Jon Zimmerman
• Anna Hibiscus by Atinuke
• Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
• I Pledge Allegiance by Chris Lynch
• The Gangster We Are All Looking For by Thi Diem Thuy Le
• Water Buffalo Days by Quang Nhuong Huynh
• Goodbye, Vietnam by Gloria Whelan
• Vietnam (Countries of the World series) by Jen Green
• Vietnam (Festivals of the World series) by Susan McKay

Books of the Month: March 2012

I slowed down a bit last month, but these are the books I did manage to fit in:

• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• Grounded by Kate Klise
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• The Fault in our Stars by John Green
• Ordinary Jack by Helen Cresswell

Books of the Month: February 2012

What I read last month:

• Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman
• The Silver Pencil by Alice Dalgliesh
• Small Persons with Wings by Ellen Booraem
• What to Do About Alice? by Barbara Kerley
• Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto by Susan Goldman Rubin
• Queen of the Falls by Chris Van Allsburg
• Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson
• The Wall by Peter Sis
• 1-2-3 Magic by Thomas W. Phelan
• Toilet Training by Vicki Lansky
• Facing the Lion by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton
• Drawing from Memory by Allen Say
• Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
• 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie DePaola

Books of the Month: January 2012

Books I read last month:

• Strings Attached by Judy Blundell
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
• The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
• Sparrow Road by Sheila O’Connor
• Rules to Rock By by Josh Farrar
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
• My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
• Abby Carnelia’s One and Only Magical Power by David Pogue
• The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
• Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
• Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy by Albert Marrin
• Tales for Very Picky Eaters by Josh Schneider
• Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
• Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
• A Visit to William Blake’s Inn by Nancy Willard

Books of the Month: December 2011

• The Red Blazer Girls: The Vanishing Violin – Michael D. Beil
• Matched – Ally Condie
• The Kneebone Boy – Ellen Potter
• The Last Holiday Concert – Andrew Clements
• Miss Match – Erynn Mangum
• Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes – Jonathan Auxier
• The Fences Between Us – Kirby Larson
• Fetching – Kiera Stewart
• Bird in a Box – Andrea Davis Pinkney