Books We Read – September 2011

Yeah! The trips to the school library have resumed! Remember last month when I said that the earthquake became a point of reading interest? Well the 1-2-punch of the earthquake and Hurricane Irene pushed research into another weather phenomena: tornadoes!

We’re slowly getting back into the swing of reviews, too. This month we have more new reviews than we have books read. I shared a stack of 2010 Cybils-nominated Easy Readers with one of our families after the winners were announced and those reviews are now in, too.

As always, we would love to get our visitors reading YOUR REVIEWS!  InLinkz (www.inlinkz.com) offers YOU an easy-to-use process and US a more secure system for connecting our reviews. It has thumbnails, too!!  I cannot say enough great things about Team Inlinkz and their level of support and service … so don’t be surprised if you see my gratitude for months to come!

Received: 17   New Reads: 15 …. New Reviews: 18

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)

Cinderlily

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Doomed to Dance (Ivy + Bean #6)

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Audio Books & Nontraditional Reading

None this month.
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Bilingual Books (All Audience)

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Picture Books (All Audiences)

Charting the world

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Chasing tornadoes
Chasing tornadoes; Laurie Lindop (Twenty-First Century Books 2003)

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Ghosts and Other Specters
Ghosts and Other Specters; Anita Ganeri (The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. 2011)

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Hop! plop!

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MY Mom has X-Ray Vision
MY Mom has X-Ray Vision; Angela McAllister (Tiger Tales, M.E. Media, Inc 2010) our book talk

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National Geographic Kids Ultimate Weird but True

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Nic Bishop marsupials.

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One Rainy Day
One Rainy Day; Tammi J. Salzano (Tiger Tales, M.E. Media, Inc 2011) our book talk

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Peeper Has a Fever (Dr. Hippo Story)

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Rain Forest (Kingfisher Voyages)

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[openbook booknumber=”ISBN:9781609910006″ templatenumber=”2″]

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Tornado! (Disaster)

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Easy Readers (for new and developing readers)

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Early and Illustrated Chapter Books

Big Nate on a Roll
Big Nate on a Roll; Lincoln Peirce (HarperCollins Publishers 2011)

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Paddington Here and Now

 

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Middle Grade Chapter Books (Fiction and Nonfiction)

Bud, not Buddy
Bud, not Buddy; Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte Press 1999)

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#01 the drained brains caper

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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[openbook booknumber=”OLID:OL24994800M” templatenumber=”2″] our book talk

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Young Adult Chapter Books (Fiction and Nonfiction)

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New & Updated Reviews of Books on Earlier Lists

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

The Amazing Mexian Secret (Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures, 5) by Jeff Brown and Josh Greenhut

Anna Hibiscus by Atinuke

The Case of the Rock ‘N Roll Dog (First Kids Mystery, Book 1) by Martha Freeman

The Dragons of Wayward Crescent: GRUFFEN by Chris d’Lacey

Funny Lunch (Max Spaniel series) by David Catrow

A Gaggle of Goblins, 1: The Unseen World of Poppy Malone by Suzanne Harper

Home on the Range (Down Girl and Sit) by Lucy Nolan

ODD BALL: Hilarious, Unusual, and Bizarre Baseball Moments by Timothy Tocher

Spring is Here! A Story about Seeds by Joan Holub

Wings by Aprilynne Carter

Wolf Pie by Brenda Seabrooke

Word After Word After Word by Patricia MacLachlan

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