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December 2008: 38 books read

For all ages
Give a Goat by by Jan West Schrock, illustrated by Aileen Darragh
The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum by Kate Bernheimer
Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illustrated by Jane Dyer
Olivia Helps With Christmas by Ian Falconer

For beginning readers
The Piggie & Elephant books by Mo Willems

For ages 6 and up
Toy Dance Party: Being the Further Adventures of a Bossyboots Stingray, a Courageous Buffalo, and a Hopeful Round Someone Called Plastic by Emily Jenkins, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky (sequel to Toys Go Out)
Stink and the Great Guinea Pig Express by Megan McDonald, illustrated by Peter Reynolds
Judy Moody Goes to College by Megan McDonald, illustrated by Peter Reynolds
Sunny Holiday by Coleen Murtagh Paratore (coming out in January)

For ages 10 and up
Solving Zoe by Barbara Dee (coming out in April)
Palace of Mirrors by Margaret Peterson Haddix (companion to Just Ella)

For teens and adults
Black Box by Julie Schumacher
Headlong by Kathe Koja
All Souls by Christine Schutt
Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah
On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Something, Maybe by Elizabeth Scott (coming out in March 2009)
Band Geeked Out by Josie Bloss (coming out in April 2009; sequel to Band Geek Love)
After the Moment by Garret Freymann-Weyr (coming out in May 2009)

 

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