Books We Read – April

We have lots of picture books this month! We just finished updating the website (on top of everything else!) so we now have reviews of some books listed last month, like How the Weather Works by Christiane Dorior and Nuts by Kacy Cook. Look for lots more reviews in May.

Received: 39  ….. New Reads: 19 …. New Reviews: 7



Please use these category headings to “jump” to your favorite children’s and young adult book categories. We hope this makes the monthly list (and our annual list pages) more enjoyable for you … not to mention a little more manageable to browse.

If you’ve read any of these books, we’d love to link to them so readers can learn more about them! Just click “Our Book Talk” to add your link to our website review (via InLinkz) or just paste the URL into a comment and I’ll do the rest.

Favorite Re-Reads (Kid Picks)

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Audio Books & Nontraditional Reading

None this month.

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Bilingual Books (All Audience)

None this month.

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Picture Books (All Audiences)

Bethany Hamilton

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Brain: A 21st Century Look at a 400-Million-Year-Old Organ

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Cows Can
Cows Can’t Jump; Dave Reisman (Jumping Cow Press 2008)

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The Cycling Wangdoos
The Cycling Wangdoos; Kelly Pulley (Gauthier Publications, Inc. 2011) our book talk

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The Faerie
The Faerie’s Gift; Tanya Robyn Batt (Barefoot Books 2003)

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If i could keep you little
If i could keep you little; (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2011)

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Nur Jahan of India

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Rapunzel
kid pick Rapunzel; Sarah Gibb (Albert Whitman 2011)

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Welcome to Death Valley National Park
kid pick Welcome to Death Valley National Park; M. J. Cosson (Child’s World 2006)

 

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Easy Readers (for new and developing readers)

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Early and Illustrated Chapter Books

In the beginning

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Odd Ball

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Yikes!

 

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Middle Grade (Fiction and Nonfiction)

The Adventures of Marky, Slash & Levy

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Black Beauty
Black Beauty; Anna Sewell (HarperTrophy 1998)

 

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A Field Guide to First Space Creatures by Faiz Kermani (Amazon.co.UK.Ltd, 2011)

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter (Turtleback))
Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media 2001

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Inkdeath
kid pick Inkdeath; Cornelia Funke (Chicken House/Scholastic Inc. 2008)

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Scumble (Savvy #2)
Scumble (Savvy #2); Ingrid Law (Penguin Audio 2010)

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Twenty gold falcons

 

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Young Adult Chapter Books (Fiction and Nonfiction)

Kennedy through the lens

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North of Beautiful
North of Beautiful; Justina Chen Headley (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 2009)

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New & Updated Reviews of Books on Earlier Lists

How the Weather Works by Christiane Dorior

Nuts by Kacy Cook

 

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