Books We Read – November
November 2009 [Books received: 28; books read: 52]
Wow! What a month! Lots of fun reading, both for the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers Literary Awards (Cybils) and just for fun as we started sharing some holiday stories.
Check out the Kids Picks (KP) this month … lots of nonfiction. [Yeah!] I love trying to figure out the rhyme or reason for the kid picks, too. I’m not sure there really is one, but its still fun. Our reviewers were busy, too. We received 30 reviews of middle grade and YA books from one of our Use Your ABC’s classrooms. There are a few here, but most are still being loaded into the Book bag.
As you’ll see, we’ve got lots of Cybils-nominated easy readers and short chapter books. The ones listed here were read with or by Catherine, too. All of the nominated books have been read, but the timing for some wasn’t right for sharing. For example, she is just now getting past a very visceral hurt of the sudden death of a neighbor’s puppy. So while I enjoyed Katie Woo: Goodbye to Goldie, it wasn’t one I’d pick for her right now.
Last note: Many of the reviews included here are titles our reviewers picked up at the library, including some Cybils books I reviewed and all of the Kid Picks. To see the source, please click the link to our website review.
If you have read any of these books, we’d love to link to your review. Just click our link and add your name and URL via Mr. Linky. If you’ve read a book that isn’t linked, please put your URL in the comments.
Bilingual Books (All Ages)
none this month
Treasured Stories & Books (All Ages)
The books the kids come back to by themselves (not counted)
[openbook booknumber=”0967174880″ templatenumber=”3″] previously reviewed
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[openbook booknumber=”9780060755553″ templatenumber=”3″] previously reviewed
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[openbook booknumber=”037582538X” templatenumber=”3″] previously reviewed
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Picture Books Nonfiction (All Ages)
[openbook booknumber=”9780316031707″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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The Ant Lucy and the Hurricane
written and illustrated by Carmen Navarro-Talavera
(Authorhouse, 2009)
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[openbook booknumber=”9781599289625″ templatenumber=”3″] KP – kid pick
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[openbook booknumber=”0789454300″ templatenumber=”3″] KP – kid pick
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[openbook booknumber=”0811465950″ templatenumber=”3″] KP – kid pick
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[openbook booknumber=”0590457527″ templatenumber=”3″] KP – kid pick
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[openbook booknumber=”9781400311408″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9780316040495″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”978-0761456377″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9780802797483″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9781599289663″ templatenumber=”3″] KP – kid pick
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[openbook booknumber=”081142345X” templatenumber=”3″] KP – kid pick
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[openbook booknumber=”9781582462806″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9781597167062″ templatenumber=”3″] KP – kid pick
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When Wishes Come True
written and illustrated by Per-Henrik Gurth
(Lobster Press, 2009) [openbook booknumber=”9781897550236″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
Picture Books Fiction (All Ages)
[openbook booknumber=”9780316044707″ templatenumber=”3″] KP – kid pick
Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9780805088212″ templatenumber=”3″] KP – kid pick
Reading Tub book talk
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Emotes: Jumpi Goes to Camp
by Matt Caper and Ted Dorsey
(Evergrow Ltd, 2008)[openbook booknumber=”9789881734235″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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Favor Johnson: A Christmas Story
by Willem Lange; il. Bert Dodson
(Bunker Hill Publishing, 2009)[openbook booknumber=”9781593730826″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9781585364671″ templatenumber=”3″]
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[openbook booknumber=”9781580892360″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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Max Said Yes! The Woodstock Story
by Abigail Yasgur and Joseph Lipner; Il Barbara Mendes
(Change the Universe Press, 2009) [openbook booknumber=”9780615211442″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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The Night Before Thanksgiving … The Legend of the Christmas Elves
by Phyllis Porter Turner; Il. Eva Manette Porter
(21st Century Classics Publishing House, 2009)[openbook booknumber=”9780980069303″ templatenumber=”3″]
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Santa Claus is Green; How to Have an Eco-Friendly Christmas
by Allison Inches; Il. Wednesday Kirwin
(Little Simon, 2009) [openbook booknumber=”1416972234″ templatenumber”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9780670011476″ templatenumber=”3″] KP – kid pick
Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”0307030016″ templatenumber=”3″]
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[openbook booknumber=”9781599903071″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9780061650932″ templatenumber=”3″] KP – kid pick
Easy Readers & Illustrated Chapter – Nonfiction
[openbook booknumber=”0679849777″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”039499695X” templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”0448018721″ templatenumber=”3″] KP – kid pick
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[openbook booknumber=”9780448452067″ templatenumber=”3″] Cybils nominee
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[openbook booknumber=”0375910158″ Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”0375931643″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9780448452173″ templatenumber=”3″] Cybils nominee
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[openbook booknumber=”978-1587171383″ templatenumber=”3″] KP – kid pick
Easy Readers & Illustrated Chapter – Fiction
[openbook booknumber=”9781842702390″ templatenumber=”3″] Cybils nominee Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9780440410720″ templatenumber=”3″] KP – kid pick
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[openbook booknumber=”9781416948582″ templatenumber=”3″] Cybils nominee
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[openbook booknumber=”9780061449222″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9781570916458″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9781434215628″ templatenumber=”3″] Cybils nominee
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[openbook booknumber=”9780060728120″ templatenumber=”3″]
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Keena Ford and the Second Grade Mix-up
by Melissa Thomson; il by Frank Morrison
(Puffin, 2008)[openbook booknumber=”9780142413968″ templatenumber=”3″] Cybils nominee
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[openbook booknumber=”9780679877158″ templatenumber=”3″] KP – kid pick
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Phineas and Ferb #3: Wild Surprise
written by Helena Mayer
(Disney Press, 2009)[openbook booknumber=”9781423117988″ templatenumber=”3″] KP – kid pick
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[openbook booknumber=”9781423113485″ templatenumber=”3″] Cybils nominee Reading Tub book talk
Middle Grade/Young Adult Nonfiction
None this month.
Middle Grade/Young Adult Fiction
Blood Roses
Francesca Lia Block
(HarperTeen, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2009) [openbook booknumber=”9780060763862″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9780978665500″ templatenumber=”3″] (review forthcoming)
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[openbook booknumber=”9781561453528″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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[openbook booknumber=”9780061340802″ templatenumber=”3″] Reading Tub book talk
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Wolf Pack of the Winisk River
by Paul Brown; il Robert Kakegamic
(Lobster Press, 2009)[openbook booknumber=”9781897550106″ templatenumber=”3″]Reading Tub book talk
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