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Are You Ready to Play Outside? by Mo Willems
Blackout by John Rocco
The Cereal Murders by Diane Mott Davidson
Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff
E-mergency by Tom Lichtenheld
Evernight by Claudia Gray
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (audio) by E.L. Konigsburg
Fullmetal Alchemist Volume 19 by Hiromu Arakawa
Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch
Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite by Barry Deutsch
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Monoculture by FS Michaels
Museum Trip by Barbara Lehman
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Night Circus (audio) by Erin Morgenstern
NNNNN (audio) by Carl Reiner
No and Me by Delphine de Vigan
Of All the Stupid Things by Alexandra Diaz
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
Perfect Shot by Debbie Rigaud
Press Here by Hervé Tullet
The Princess of the Silver Woods by Jessica Day George
The Rules for Hearts by Sara Ryan
The Shocking Pink Hat by Frances Crane
Sweet Revenge (audio) by Diane Mott Davidson
The Technologists by Matthew Pearl
There is a Bird on Your Head by Mo Willems
Three Black Swans by Caroline B. Cooney
What's a Ghoul to Do? by Victoria Laurie
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

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Comments for December in Review

December in Review: 12/31/12

    Rating out of 5 stars (as posted on GoodReads)

    Five Star books:

  1. The Cereal Murders by Diane Mott Davidson
  2. E-mergency by Tom Lichtenheld
  3. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (audio) by E.L. Konigsburg
  4. Fullmetal Alchemist Volume 19 by Hiromu Arakawa
  5. Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite by Barry Deutsch
  6. The Night Circus (audio) by Erin Morgenstern
  7. Press Here by Hervé Tullet
  8. Sweet Revenge (audio) by Diane Mott Davidson
  9. There is a Bird on Your Head by Mo Willems
  10. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

    Four Star books

  1. Are You Ready to Play Outside? by Mo Willems
  2. Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff
  3. Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch
  4. Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
  5. Monoculture by FS Michaels
  6. Museum Trip by Barbara Lehman
  7. NNNNN (audio) by Carl Reiner
  8. No and Me by Delphine de Vigan
  9. Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
  10. The Rules for Hearts by Sara Ryan

    Three Star books

  1. Blackout by John Rocco
  2. Evernight by Claudia Gray
  3. The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
  4. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  5. Perfect Shot by Debbie Rigaud
  6. The Princess of the Silver Woods by Jessica Day George
  7. The Shocking Pink Hat by Frances Crane
  8. The Technologists by Matthew Pearl
  9. What's a Ghoul to Do? by Victoria Laurie
    Two Star books
  1. Of All the Stupid Things by Alexandra Diaz
  2. Three Black Swans by Caroline B. Cooney
    One Star books

Books by Age

Books by Source

Books by Age Group

Books and stories read this month (reviews coming)

    Personal Collection
  1. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
  2. Freddy Goes to Florida by Walter R. Brooks
  3. The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While by Catherynne M. Valente
  4. Let's Go for a Drive! by Mo Willems
  5. The Main Corpse by Diane Mott Davidson
  6. This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen
    Library book
  1. Another Brother by Matthew Cordell
  2. Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle
  3. Butterfly by Sonya Hartnet
  4. The Conductor by Laëtitia Devernay
  5. Everlasting by Angie Frazier
  6. Helen of Pasadena by Lian Dolan
  7. IraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq by IraqiGirl
  8. Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930 by Marilyn Irvin Holt
  9. Lion in the Valley by Elizabeth Peters
  10. Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
  11. Moby-Duck by Donovan Hohn
  12. Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childs
  13. Winter Study by Nevada Barr
    Review copy
  1. Bird & Squirrel on the Run by James Burks
  2. Cardboard by Doug TenNapel
  3. The Secret of the Stone Frog by David Nytra
  4. Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley

5 = all new books, -4 = all to be reads. The goal is to be as close to -4 as possible.

Read vs Review by Date - Jan / December 2012

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