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Absolutely Truly by Heather Vogel Frederick
And Then You Dye by Monica Ferris
Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
Avenging the Owl by Melissa Hart
Bigmama's by Donald Crews
Cat With a Clue by Laurie Cass
Clarice Bean, Guess Who's Babysitting? by Lauren Child
Cloud and Wallfish by Anne Nesbet
Cy Whittaker's Place by Joseph C. Lincoln
Empty Places by Kathy Cannon Wiechman
The Firefly Code by Megan Frazer Blakemore
Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Ghost by Jason Reynolds
Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier
Honey by Sarah Weeks
It Ain't So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass
Knit One, Kill Two by Maggie Sefton
The Last Monster by Ginger Garrett
Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban
Pretty in Ink by Karen E. Olson
Radio Girls by Sarah-Jane Stratford
Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan
Sea Change by Frank Viva
The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
Slacker by Gordon Korman
Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard by Jonathan Auxier
Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs
This is San Francisco by Miroslav Sasek
Viva Frida by Yuyi Morales
Waiting for Augusta by Jessica Lawson

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2 stars: OK
1 star: Did not finish

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October in Review: 10/31/16

    Rating out of 5 stars

    Five Stars: (Completely loved the book)

  1. Absolutely Truly by Heather Vogel Frederick
  2. Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
  3. Bigmama's by Donald Crews
  4. Cat With a Clue by Laurie Cass
  5. Cloud and Wallfish by Anne Nesbet
  6. Cy Whittaker's Place by Joseph C. Lincoln
  7. The Firefly Code by Megan Frazer Blakemore
  8. Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
  9. Ghost by Jason Reynolds
  10. Honey by Sarah Weeks
  11. The Last Monster by Ginger Garrett
  12. Radio Girls by Sarah-Jane Stratford
  13. Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan
  14. The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
  15. Slacker by Gordon Korman
  16. This is San Francisco by Miroslav Sasek

    Four Stars: (Good but flawed)

  1. And Then You Dye by Monica Ferris
  2. Avenging the Owl by Melissa Hart
  3. Clarice Bean, Guess Who's Babysitting? by Lauren Child
  4. It Ain't So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas
  5. Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass
  6. Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban
  7. Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard by Jonathan Auxier
  8. Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs
  9. Viva Frida by Yuyi Morales
  10. Waiting for Augusta by Jessica Lawson

    Three Stars (Average)

  1. Empty Places by Kathy Cannon Wiechman
  2. Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier
  3. Knit One, Kill Two by Maggie Sefton
  4. Pretty in Ink by Karen E. Olson

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

  1. Sea Change by Frank Viva

    One Star (Didn't finish)

Books by Age

Books by Source

Books by Age Group

Books and stories read this month (reviews coming)

    Personal Collection
  1. Avatar: The Last Airbender - North and South, Part One by Gene Luen Yang
  2. Click Here to Start by Denis Markell
  3. Cloud and Wallfish by Anne Nesbet
  4. Cy Whittaker's Place by Joseph C. Lincoln
  5. Demon Book 1 by Jason Shiga
  6. Fenway and Hattie by Victoria J. Coe
  7. Framed! by James Ponti
  8. Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
  9. Imagine a World by Rob Gonsalves
  10. The Lost Compass by Joel N. Ross
  11. Ottoline and the Purple Fox by Chris Riddell
  12. Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban
  13. Radio Girls by Sarah-Jane Stratford
  14. Ratpunzel by Ursula Vernon
  15. Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
  16. Slacker by Gordon Korman
  17. Sticks & Stones by Sarah Mlynowski
    Research
  1. By Motor to the Golden Gate by Emily Post
  2. Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
    Library book
  1. All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor
  2. Allie, First at Last by Angela Cervantes
  3. Avenging the Owl by Melissa Hart
  4. Be Light Like a Bird by Monika Schröder
  5. The Best Man by Richard Peck
  6. The Big Necessity by Rose George
  7. Boy Dumplings by Ying Chang Compestine
  8. Ghost by Jason Reynolds
  9. Just Like Me by Nancy J. Cavanaugh
  10. Miss Pickerell Harvests the Sea by Ellen MacGregor
  11. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin
  12. OCDaniel by Wesley King
  13. Six Impossible Things by Fiona Wood
  14. Smells Like Dog by Suzanne Selfors
  15. Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart
  16. The Tiger in the House by Carl Van Vechten
  17. The Underdogs by Sara Hammel

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.

5 = all new books, -4 = all to be reads. The goal is to be as close to -4 as possible.
Same data as the above graph, just broken out by year.

Read vs Review by Date - Jan / October 2016
Read vs Review by Date for 2016

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