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All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor
Allie, First at Last by Angela Cervantes
Avatar: The Last Airbender - North and South, Part One by Gene Luen Yang
Be Light Like a Bird by Monika Schröder
Cat vs Human: Another Dose of Catnip by Yasmine Surovec
Catty Jane Who Hated the Rain by Valeri Gorbachev
Click Here to Start by Denis Markell
A Curious Tale of the In-Between by Lauren DeStefano
Darned if You Do by Monica Ferris
The Doldrums by Nicholas Gannon
Framed! by James Ponti
Frazzled: Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom by Booki Vivat
How Lunchbox Jones Saved Me from Robots, Traitors, and Missy the Cruel by Jennifer Brown
The Journey of the Penguin by Emiliano Ponzi
Just My Luck by Cammie McGovern
Kiki and Jacques by Susan Ross
A Long Pitch Home by Natalie Dias Lorenzi
Lost Cat by Caroline Paul
Lunch Lady and the Schoolwide Scuffle by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
The Nine Lives of Jacob Tibbs by Cylin Busby
OCDaniel by Wesley King
The Princess in Black and the Hungry Bunny Horde by Shannon Hale
Ratpunzel by Ursula Vernon
Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
The Readaholics and the Poirot Puzzle by Laura DiSilverio
Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older
Sticks & Stones by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle, and Emily Jenkins
The Story of Diva and Flea by Mo Willems
Two Naomis by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Valley of Kings by Michael Northrop
You Are a Lion! And Other Fun Yoga Poses by Taeeun Yoo

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Favorite books of 2016 by month
Favorite Own Voices read in 2016
Favorite series read in 2016
Favorite Science Fiction and Fantasy read in 2016

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4 stars: Good but flawed
3 stars: Average
2 stars: OK
1 star: Did not finish

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December in Review: 12/31/16

    Rating out of 5 stars

    Five Stars: (Completely loved the book)

  1. Avatar: The Last Airbender - North and South, Part One by Gene Luen Yang
  2. Cat vs Human: Another Dose of Catnip by Yasmine Surovec
  3. Click Here to Start by Denis Markell
  4. Darned if You Do by Monica Ferris
  5. Frazzled: Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom by Booki Vivat
  6. The Journey of the Penguin by Emiliano Ponzi
  7. Lost Cat by Caroline Paul
  8. The Princess in Black and the Hungry Bunny Horde by Shannon Hale
  9. Ratpunzel by Ursula Vernon
  10. Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
  11. Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older
  12. The Story of Diva and Flea by Mo Willems
  13. Valley of Kings by Michael Northrop
  14. You Are a Lion! And Other Fun Yoga Poses by Taeeun Yoo

    Four Stars: (Good but flawed)

  1. Allie, First at Last by Angela Cervantes
  2. The Doldrums by Nicholas Gannon
  3. Framed! by James Ponti
  4. Kiki and Jacques by Susan Ross
  5. Lunch Lady and the Schoolwide Scuffle by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
  6. The Readaholics and the Poirot Puzzle by Laura DiSilverio
  7. Sticks & Stones by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle, and Emily Jenkins
  8. Two Naomis by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick

    Three Stars (Average)

  1. All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor
  2. Catty Jane Who Hated the Rain by Valeri Gorbachev
  3. A Curious Tale of the In-Between by Lauren DeStefano
  4. The Nine Lives of Jacob Tibbs by Cylin Busby

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

  1. Be Light Like a Bird by Monika Schröder
  2. How Lunchbox Jones Saved Me from Robots, Traitors, and Missy the Cruel by Jennifer Brown
  3. Just My Luck by Cammie McGovern
  4. A Long Pitch Home by Natalie Dias Lorenzi
  5. OCDaniel by Wesley King

    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. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
  2. The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
  3. Flora and the Peacocks by Molly Idle
  4. Hello, My Name is Octicorn by Kevin Diller
  5. Knit Your Own Murder by Monica Ferris
  6. The Maypop Kidnapping by C. M. Surrisi
  7. Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Vol. 1 by Izumi Tsubaki
  8. The Princess and the Pony by Kate Beaton
  9. Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum
    Research
    Review
  1. A Buss from Lafayette by Dorothea Jensen
  2. The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz
    Library book
  1. The Great Shelby Holmes by Elizabeth Eulberg
  2. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph M. Marshall III
  3. It's a Book by Lane Smith
  4. Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
  5. March: Book One by John Lewis
  6. Mayday by Karen Harrington
  7. Mr. Pants: It's Go Time! by Scott McCormick
  8. The Princess in Black Takes a Vacation by Shannon Hale
  9. Ruby Lee and Me by Shannon Hitchcock
  10. This Is Not the Abby Show by Debbie Reed Fischer
  11. Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes
  12. What Elephants Know by Eric Dinerstein

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.

Monthy ROOB average
Monthy ROOB average

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

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