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Welcome to Sonderbooks, an e-zine of book reviews by Sondra Eklund.
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****The Dance of Anger, by Harriet Lerner, Ph.D.
****The Complete Peanuts:  1953 to 1954, by Charles M. Schulz
****Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers, by Fred Rogers
****Walking a Literary Labyrinth, by Nancy M. Malone
  ***Garlic and Sapphires, by Ruth Reichl
  ***Being Perfect, by Anna Quindlen
***City of the Soul, by William Murray

****The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
***Table for Five, by Susan Wiggs
  ***Blackbird House, by Alice Hoffman

Young Adult Fiction

*****In the Coils of the Snake, by Clare B. Dunkle
  ***The Xanadu Adventure, by Lloyd Alexander

Children's Nonfiction

***The Bremen Town Musicians and Other Animal Tales from Grimm, retold by Doris Orgel, illustrated by Bert Kitchen

Children's Fiction

****Permanent Rose, by Hilary McKay
  ****Conrad's Fate, by Diana Wynne Jones

(Young Adult Fiction): *****Searching for Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede

****The Story of Honk-Honk-Ashoo and Swella-Bow-Wow, by Ralph Cosentino

“That is why I read, I guess,
to stay alive, to be as fully alive as I can be.
In books, almost the whole world and everything in it are available to me to feed that life.”

—Nancy M. Malone in Walking a Literary Labyrinth

Sonder is a German prefix meaning "special."