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Welcome to Sonderbooks, an e-zine of book reviews by Sondra Eklund.
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****A New Kind of Christian, by Brian D. McLaren
****The Complete Peanuts:  1955 to 1956, by Charles M. Schulz
****In Focus:  National Geographic's Greatest Portraits
****Getting the Love You Want, by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.
****Head Over Heels in the Dales, by Gervase Phinn

*****Zorro, by Isabel Allende
****Carry On, Jeeves, by P. G. Wodehouse
  ****Eight of Swords, by David Skibbins
***Suspense and Sensibility, by Carrie Bebris

Young Adult Fiction

  ***The Faery Reel, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Children's Nonfiction

***Once Upon a Poem

Children's Fiction

****More Perfect Than the Moon, by Patricia MacLachlan
****King Matt the First, by Janusz Korczak
***Say Cheese, Medusa! by Kate McMullan

(Nonfiction): ****The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, by Madeleine L'Engle

*****Michael Rosen's Sad Book, by Michael Rosen, pictures by Quentin Blake

“There are all too few heroes with a romantic heart and a fun-loving nature.”

—Isabel Allende in Zorro

Sonder is a German prefix meaning "special."