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October: 30 books + scripts read

Recommended Juvenile Fiction
Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins

Recommended Teen Fiction
Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
The Sweet, Terrible, Glorious Year I Truly, Completely Lost It (originally titled My Big Birkett) by Lisa Shanahan
Saving Zoë by Alyson Noel
Kissing the Bee by Kathe Koja
Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter (sequel to I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You)

Recommended Verse Novels
Seeing Emily by Joyce Lee Wong
What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones (sequel to What My Mother Doesn't Know)
Girl Coming in for a Landing by April Halprin Wayland, illustrations by Elaine Clayton

Recommended Advanced Reads
Red Dragon Codex by R.D. Henham (ages 8 and up, first in a new series, January 2008)
Leftovers by Laura Wiess (ages 14 and up, January 2008)
Feathered by Laura Kasischke (ages 14 and up, April 2008)
How to Build a House by Dana Reinhardt (ages 14 and up, May 2008)

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