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January in Review: 01/31/16

    Rating out of 5 stars

    Five Stars: (Completely loved the book)

  1. Avatar: The Last Airbender: Smoke and Shadow Part One by Gene Luen Yang
  2. The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
  3. FBP Federal Bureau of Physics: Vol. 2: Wish You Were Here by Simon Oliver
  4. Hippopposites by Janik Coat
  5. (In a Sense) Lost and Found by Roman Muradov
  6. Midnight Blue by Pauline Fisk
  7. Saving Baby Doe by Danette Vigilante
  8. A Whole New Ballgame by Phil Bildner
  9. The Zoo at the Edge of the World by Eric Kahn Gale

    Four Stars (Good but flawed)

  1. Bad Kitty Goes to the Vet by Nick Bruel
  2. Bird by Crystal Chan
  3. Cats, Dogs, Men, Women, Ninnies & Clowns by Jeanne Steig
  4. Cutwork by Monica Ferris
  5. Do You Know Dinosaurs? by Alain M Bergeron
  6. Dream On, Amber by Emma Shevah
  7. The Forbidden Library by Django Wexler
  8. Library Lil by Suzanne Williams
  9. Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni
  10. Lovely: Ladies of Animation by Lorelay Bove
  11. Oz: The Emerald City of Oz by Eric Shanower
  12. Photography: The Groundbreaking Moments by Florian Heine
  13. The Princess and the Pizza by Mary Jane Auch and Herm Auch
  14. Sock Monkey Boogie Woogie: A Friend Is Made by Cece Bell
  15. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

    Three Stars (Average)

  1. Blue on Blue by Dianne White
  2. How to Catch a Cat by Rebecca M. Hale
  3. Hyperactive by Scott Christian Sava
  4. On Highway 61 by Dennis McNally
  5. One Plus One Equals Blue by M.J. Auch
  6. Tumford the Terrible by Nancy Tillman

    Two Stars (Finished but it was a chore to read)

  1. City of Pearl by Karen Traviss

    One Star (Didn't finish)

Books by Age

Books by Source

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Books and stories read this month (reviews coming)

    Personal Collection
  1. Avatar: The Last Airbender: Smoke and Shadow Part Two by Gene Luen Yang
  2. Bad Kitty Goes to the Vet by Nick Bruel
  3. A Birthday Cake for George Washington by Ramin Ganeshram
  4. Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood
  5. FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics Vol. 3: Audeamus by Simon Oliver
  6. FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics, Vol. 4: The End Times by Simon Oliver
  7. Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding
  8. Steal the Sky by Megan E. O'Keefe
  9. The Terrible Two Get Worse by Mac Barnett
  10. This is San Francisco by Miroslav Sasek
    Research
  1. Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
  2. Survival Strategies of the Almost Brave by Jen White
    Library book
  1. Borrowed Crime by Laurie Cass
  2. The Bubble Wrap Boy by Phil Earle
  3. Buttons and Bones by Monica Ferris
  4. By Book or By Crook by Eva Gates
  5. Curse of the Arctic Star by Carolyn Keene
  6. The Detective's Assistant by Kate Hannigan
  7. Flying Too High by Kerry Greenwood
  8. The Friendship Riddle by Megan Frazer Blakemore
  9. Frindle by Andrew Clements
  10. The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart
  11. Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile by Bernard Waber
  12. Monstrous by MarcyKate Connolly
  13. Murder on the Ballarat Train by Kerry Greenwood
  14. The Question of Miracles by Elana K. Arnold
  15. Rhymoceros by Janik Coat
  16. Tailing a Tabby by Laurie Cass
  17. This is Paris by Miroslav Sasek
  18. Threadbare by Monica Ferris
  19. The Truth About Twinkie Pie by Kat Yeh
  20. Watch the Sky by Kirsten Hubbard
  21. Waiting by Kevin Henkes
  22. Zack Delacruz: Me and My Big Mouth by Jeff Anderson

5 = all new books, -4 = all to be reads. The goal is to be as close to -4 as possible.
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 / January 2015
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