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February 17, 2010

Tonight I'm posting reviews of four children's fiction books: Odd and the Frost Giants, by Neil Gaiman; Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech; Senrid, by Sherwood Smith; and The Dream Stealer, by Sid Fleischman, illustrated by Peter Sis.

Happy reading!

Beginning Chapter Books

The Dream Stealer

by Sid Fleischman
pictures by Peter Sis

Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Maybe Maybe

by Susan Patron

Eoin Colfer's Legend of . . . The Worst Boy in the World

Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig

by Kate DiCamillo
illustrated by Chris Van Dusen

The Cowgirl Aunt of Harriet Bean

by Alexander McCall Smith

Down Girl and Sit: Smarter Than Squirrels

by Lucy Nolan
illustrated by Mike Reed

Bad to the Bone

by Lucy Nolan
illustrated by Mike Reed

Contemporary

Walk Two Moons

by Sharon Creech

Lucky Breaks

by Susan Patron

Home of the Brave

by Katherine Applegate

Hate That Cat

by Sharon Creech

One False Note

by Gordon Korman

Swindle

by Gordon Korman

Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things

by Lenore Look
illustrated by Leuyen Pham

Caddy Ever After

by Hilary McKay

Forever Rose

by Hilary McKay

The Maze of Bones: The 39 Clues, Book One

by Rick Riordan

Fantasy

Odd and the Frost Giants

by Neil Gaiman

Senrid

by Sherwood Smith

The Prophecy

by Hilari Bell

The Wizard Test

by Hilari Bell

The Conch Bearer

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The Facttracker

by Jason Carter Eaton

Coraline

written and performed by Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book

written and performed by Neil Gaiman

The Shoe Bird

a musical fable by Samuel Jones

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle
performance by the Author

Ever

by Gail Carson Levine

Fairest

by Gail Carson Levine

Fairest

by Gail Carson Levine
read and sung by Sarah Naughton and the Full Cast Family
music by Todd Hobin

The Last Battle

by C. S. Lewis
performed by Patrick Stewart

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

by Grace Lin

Punished!

by David Lubar

What-the-dickens

by Gregory Maguire

Winnie-the-Pooh

by A. A. Milne
performed by Peter Dennis

Saving the Griffin

by Kristin Wolden Nitz

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

by J. K. Rowling

Any Which Wall

by Laurel Snyder

Historical

The Storm in the Barn

by Matt Phelan

Al Capone Does My Shirts

by Gennifer Choldenko

Bull Run

by Paul Fleischman

The Silver Donkey

by Sonya Hartnett

Grandfather's Dance

by Patricia MacLachlan

Shiloh

by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The Wednesday Wars

by Gary D. Schmidt

The Case of the Missing Marquess

by Nancy Springer

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

by Mildred D. Taylor

Before Green Gables

by Budge Wilson

Science Fiction

When You Reach Me

by Rebecca Stead

Mothstorm

by Philip Reeve
performed by Greg Steinbruner

The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen

by M. T. Anderson

Doc Wilde and the Frogs of Doom

by Tim Byrd

LionBoy

by Zizou Corder
read by Simon Jones

LionBoy: The Chase

by Zizou Corder
read by Simon Jones

LionBoy: The Truth

by Zizou Corder
read by Simon Jones

Among the Hidden

by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Larklight

by Philip Reeve
performed by Greg Steinbruner

Starcross

by Philip Reeve
performed by Greg Steinbruner

The Mysterious Benedict Society

by Trenton Lee Stewart
read by Del Roy