2011 Book List


Here is a list of the books I have read in 2011!  Please let me know if you want to chat about any of these books or have any questions about what I thought!  I looooove to talk books!


Picture Books:


Alphabet Under Construction By Denise Fleming
Ten Unusual Features of Lulu McDunn By Kelly Pulley
Let’s Count Goats! By Mem Fox
The First Day of Winter By Denise Fleming
Good Boy, Fergus! By David Shannon
13 Words By Lemony Snicket
Sneezenesia By Deb Lucke
Snow Trucking! By Jon Sciescka
Super Hero ABC By Bob McLeod
Interrupting Chicken By David Ezra Stein
In the Small, Small Pond By Denise Fleming
Barnyard Banter By Denise Fleming
Spork By Kyo Maclear
Trees By Andes Ruiz
A Saguaro Cactus By Jen Green
The Tree Book for Kids and their Grownups by Gina Ingoglia
I Wanna Iguana By Karen Orloff
I Wanna New Room By Karen Orloff
Thumb Love By Elise Primavera

Art and Max By David Weisner
Tumble Bunnies Kathryn Lasky
Olivia By Ian Falconer
In a Blue Room By Jim Averbeck
LMNO Peas By Keith Baker
The Ballad of Valentine By Alison Jackson


Chapter Books/Novels:


A New Birth of Freedom: The Visitor By Robert Pielke
A Tale Dark and Grimm By Adam Gidwitz
The Scorch Trials By James Dashner
First Step 2 Forever By Justin Bieber
Sugar and Ice By Kate Messner
Hero By Mike Lupica
Kingdom Keepers 3 By Ridley Pearson
When You Reach Me By Rebecca Stead
Hatter M: Volume 1 By Frank Beddor
Hatter M: Volume 2 By Frank Beddor
Shiver By Maggie Stiefvater
Rip the Page: Adventures in Creative Writing By Karen Benke


Sticky Burr: Adventures in Burrwood Forest By John Lechner
Sticky Burr: The Prickly Peril (#2) By John Lechner
Kit Feeny: The Ugly Necklace By Michael Townsend
A Whole Nother Story By Cuthbert Soup
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things By Lenore Look
Sir Charlie Chaplin By Sid Fleischman
Finnikin of the Rock By Melina Marchetta




Adult Books:


My Reading Life By Pat Conroy


Professional Books:

               

Here is the list of books that I read in 2011. I too love to talk about books, so let me know if you want to discuss!


Picture books (fiction & nonfiction):


Cinder Smella by Alan Sitomer
Squidge: Little Elf, Big Trouble by Andrew Thomas
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog, Knuffle Bunny, Knuffle Bunny Too, Knuffle Bunny Free, Don't let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Don't let the Pigeon Stay up Late, Watch me Throw the Ball, I Broke my Truck, We are in a Book, Amanda and her Alligator, I am Invited to a Party, Happy Pig Day!, Should I Share my Ice Cream?, Leonardo the Terrible Monster, I am Going!, Pigs Make me Sneeze by Mo Willems
Two Bad Ants, The Stranger, The Widow's Broom, Probutiti!, The Wreck of the Zephyr, Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg
Crazy Hair, Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman
Cowboy and Octopus, Baloney, Seen Art?, The Frog Prince Continued, Science Verse, Squids will be Squids by Jon Sciezska
Flotsam, Tuesday by David Weisner
The Quiet Book, The Loud Book by Deborah Underwood
Not Norman: A Goldfish Story by Kelly Bennett
Chicken Butt by Erica S. Perl
Of Thee I Sing by Barack Obama
Seabird in the Forest by Joan Dunning
Gilbert Goldfish wants a Pet by Kelly DiPucchio
The Dot, Ish by Peter Reynolds
City of Snow: The Great Blizzard of 1888 by Linda Oatman High
Eat by Steve Jenkins
The Graves Family by Patricia Polacco
The Book of Bad Ideas by Laura Huliska-Beith
Weslandia by Paul Fleishman
How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz
Shrek by William Steig
The Rough Faced Girl by Rafe Martin
The Top of the World by Steve Jenkins
It's A Book by Lane Smith
Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel
A Story for Bear by Dennis Haseley
Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt
Can We Save the Tiger? by Martin Jenkins
The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau by Dan Yaccarino
Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly by Alan Madison
Pete the Cat: I Love my White Shoes, Pete the Cat: I Love my School Shoes by Eric Litwin
The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pickney
Duck on a Bike by David Shannon
Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner
The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn
I Want my Hat Back by Jon Klassen
Chicken Dance by Tammie Sauer
Chalk by Bill Thomson
Little Chicken's Big Day by Jerry Davis
Jonathan and the Big Blue Boat by Philip C. Stead
Not a Box by Antoinette Portis
Giant Squid: Searching for a Sea Monster by Mary M. Cerullo
Titanic: Disaster at Sea by Philip Wilkinson
Escaping the Titanic: A Young Girl's True Story of Survival by Marybeth Lorbiecki
Blackout by John Rocco


Juvenile, middle grade and young adult novels & nonfiction:


Horton Halfpott by Tom Angleberger
Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
Zombies vs. Unicorns edited by Holly Black
Warp Speed by Lisa Yee
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Sugar and Ice by Kate Messner
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Lessons from a Dead Girl by Jo Knowles
Fat Vampire by Adam Rex
Matched by Ally Condie
Pretties, Specials, Extras by Scott Westerfeld
They Called Themselves the KKK by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Out of my Mind by Sharon Draper
Kneebone Boy by Ellen Potter
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
Word Nerd by Susin Nielsen-Fernlund
Where She Went by Gayle Forman
BruiserEverfound by Neal Shusterman
Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
Touch Blue by Cynthia Lord
Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman? by Eleanor Updale
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
How Beautiful the Ordinary edited by Michael Cart
Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan
Where I Live by Eileen Spinelli
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
The World We Live In, Blood Wounds by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan
Scorpia Rising by Anthony Horowitz
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Raised by Wolves by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Going Nowhere Faster by Sean Beaudoin
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Black Hole Sun by David Macinnis Gill
Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
Prom and Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg
The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie by Tanya Lee Stone
Red Pyramid, Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan
Red Glove by Holly Black
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
The Mockingbirds, The Rivals by Daisy Whitney
Marty McGuire by Kate Messner
Ash by Malinda Lo
Parallel Journeys by Eleanor Ayer
Awaken by Katie Kacvinsky
Frannie in Pieces by Delia Ephron
Locomotion, Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
Countdown by Deborah Wiles
So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez
Jumped, One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
I Walk in Dread by Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Not that Kind of Girl by Siobhan Vivian
The Unfinished Angel by Sharon Creech
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Ashfall by Mike Mullin
The Beatles by Jeremy Roberts
Ashes by Ilsa Blick
Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt
Junonia by Kevin Henkes
Wither by Lauren DeStefano
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Sold by Patricia McCormick
Spellbound by Cara Lynn Shultz
Invasion by Jon S. Lewis
She Love You, She Loves You Not by Julie Anne Peters
ForgeProm by Laurie Halse Anderson
Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
The Watch that Ends the Night by Allan Wolf
The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson
The Softwire: Virus on Orbis 1 by PJ Haarsma
The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
Impulse, Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
Guys Read: Thriller edited by Jon Sciezska
Darth Vader Strikes Back by Tom Angleberger
Ida B. by Katherine Hannigan
Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari
In Trouble by Ellen Levine
Shine by Lauren Myracle
Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Where do you stay? by Andrea Cheng
The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens
Tilt by Alan Cumyn
Blood Lie by Shirley Reva
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Down the Mysterly River by Bill Willingham
I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic by Lauren Tashiris
I am Number Four, The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore
12 Things to Do Before you Crash and Burn by James Proimos
Neversink by Barry Wolverton
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

Hurricane Dancers by Margarita Engle
Long Story Short by Siobhan Parkinson
Just your Average Princess by Kristina Springer
Pop by Gordon Korman
My Brother's Shadow by Monika Shroder
Paradise by Jill Alexander
Enclave by Ann Aguirre
My Life Undecided by Jessica Brody
Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
Amplified by Tara Kelly
But I Love Him by Amanda Grace
Rattled by Lisa Harrington
Leap by Jodi Lundgren
Badd by Tim Tharp
You Against Me by Jenny Downham
All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky by Joe R. Lansdale
Now is the Time for Running by Michael Williams
Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen
Bigger than a Bread Box by Laurel Snyder
Baby-sitter's Club #1-31 by Ann M. Martin
Two manuscripts by friends of mine


Graphic novels and illustrated novels:


Dragonbreath #2 & #3 by Ursula Vernon
Resistance by Carla Jablonski
The Clique: The Graphic Novel by Lisi Harrison
Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman
Popularity Papers by Amy Ignatow
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute, Lunch Lady and the Bake Sale Bandit, Lunch Lady and the League of Librarians, Lunch Lady and the Author Visit Vendetta by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Calamity Jack by Shannon Hale
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney
Redwall: The Graphic Novel by Brian Jacques
Ghostopolis by Doug TenNapel
Baby Mouse Queen of the World by Jenni and Matt Holm
Scott Pilgrim #1-6 by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Squish 1 & 2 by Jenni and Matt Holm
Baby-sitter's Club Graphic Novels #1-4 by Raina Telegemeier
The Last Dragon, Foiled by Jane Yolen
First Escape, The Secret of Indigo Moon by G.P. Taylor
Stitches by David Small
Secrets, Monsters and Magic Mirrors by Donald Lemke
Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome by Barbara Park
Frankie Pickle and the Mathematical Menace by Eric Wight
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
The Boxcar Children Graphic Novels #1 & #2 adapted by Shannon Denton
Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol
Sticky Burr #1 & #2 by John Lechner
Beep and Bah by James Burk
Hades: Lord of the Dead by George O'Connor


Adult novels:


Ape House by Sara Gruen
When you are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Room by Emma Donoghue


Professional books:


The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller
I Read it, But I Don't Get it by Cris Tovani
Portions of many others that I didn't keep track of


2011 Goal: 155
2011 Total: 280