Books We Read – August 2011

Another slow month … bigger chapter books, more time off line, and a week kicked off with a misfortunate event, summer swim championships, an earthquake, and the resumption of school.

The good news about the earthquake was that it opened the door for some research and you-know-who devoured every newspaper article she could get her hands on! Ah, small victories.

We haven’t put up any reviews, but would love to get our visitors reading YOURS! We are using InLinkz on the Reading Tub website now.  InLinkz (www.inlinkz.com) offers us a more secure system for connecting our reviews – and has thumbnails, too!!  I cannot say enough great things about Team Inlinkz and their level of support and service … or about how they helped us convert 2000(!) book reviews to the new tool. Or just add a link to a favorite recent read below!

Received: 17   New Reads: 12 …. New Reviews: 1

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

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Bilingual Books (All Audience)

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Picture Books (All Audiences)

Ferret fun
Ferret fun; Karen Rostoker-Gruber (Marshall Cavendish Children’s 2011)

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Fraidy Cat
Fraidy Cat; Melinda Chambers (Headline Kids 2010)

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Grandma Wants to Eat My Baby Sister

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Easy Readers (for new and developing readers)

9780061852640

Everybody Move Your Feet
Everybody Move Your Feet; Jim Henson (Collins, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2009)

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Early and Illustrated Chapter Books

The Storm in the Barn
The Storm in the Barn; Matt Phelan (Candlewick Press 2009)

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Middle Grade (Fiction and Nonfiction)

Cool Animal Names; Dawn Cusick (Charlesbridge 2011)  our  book talk

due out September 2011

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A Gaggle of Goblins

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Harry Potter and the goblet of fire
Harry Potter and the goblet of fire; J. K. Rowling (Arthur A. Levine Books 2000)

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

 

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Young Adult Chapter Books (Fiction and Nonfiction)

Wings
Wings; Aprilynne Pike (HarperTeen 2009)

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New & Updated Reviews of Books on Earlier Lists

The title links to our review on the Reading Tub site.

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