Books Read in 2009

Man in the Moon: Dotti Enderle

The Graveyard Book: Neil Gaiman

Tantalize: Cynthia Lietech-Smith

The Black Book Of Secrets: F.E. Higgins

The Never Ending Story: Michael Ende

Oh My Gods: Tera Lynn Childs

*The Call of the Wild: Jack London

*The Guardians of Ga’Hoole; The Capture: Kathryn Lasky

Winnie’s War: Jenny Moss

Demonkeeper: Royce Buckingham

Ink Death: Cornelia Funke

Prophecy of the Sisters: Michelle Zink

Geektastic; Stories from the Nerd Herd: edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci

Escape Under the Forever Sky: Eve Yohalem

The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z: Kate Messner

The Indigo Notebook: Laura Resau

Red Glass: Laura Resau

The Hunger Games: Suzanne Collins

*Black and Blue Magic: Zilpha Keatley Snyder

A Great and Terrible Beauty: Libba Bray

Skeleton Creek: Patrick Carman

Eighth Grade Bites: Heather Brewer

The Extra-Ordinary Princess: Carolyn Q. Ebbitt

Ninth Grade Slays: Heather Brewer

Graceling: Kristin Cashore

The Bronze Pen: Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Shiver: Maggie Stiefvater

The Ghost on the Stairs: Chris Eboch

Peter and the Starcatchers: Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson

The Shifter: Janice Hardy

Nathaniel Fludd Beastologist: RL LaFevers

The FarWalker’s Quest: Joni Sensel

Lyonessee: Sam Llewellyn

The Emerald Tablet: P.J. Hoover

Catching Fire: Suzanne Collins

The Higher Power of Lucky: Susan Patron

Pendragon; The Merchant of Death: D.J. MacHale

Cry of the Icemark: Stuart Hill

Rampant: Diana Peterfreund

The Maze Runner: James Dashner

The Year of the Bomb: Ronald Kidd

Books Read in 2008

The Mysterious Benedict Society: Trenton Lee Stewart

The Tale of Despereaux: Kate DiCamillo

The Keys to the Kingdom—Mister Money: Garth Nix

Golden & Grey: Louise Arnold

Stravaganza—City of Masks: Mary Hoffman

The Penderwicks: Jeanne Birdsall

*The Egypt Game: Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Ida B.: Katherine Hennigan

Atherton—The House of Power: Patrick Carman

MayBird and the Ever After: Jodi Lynn Anderson

Ella Enchanted: Gail Carson Levine

The Rangers’ Apprentice: John Flanagan

Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos: R.L. LaFevers

Howl’s Moving Castle: Dianna Wynne Jones

The Lightning Thief: Rick Riordan

The House of the Scorpion: Nancy Farmer

Sideways Stories From Wayside School: Louis Sachar

Dear Mr. Henshaw: Beverly Cleary

Fire Star’s Quest: Erin Hunter

Curse as Dark as Gold: Elizabeth Bunce

Artemis Fowl—The Time Paradox: Eoin Colfer

Coraline: Neil Gaiman

Wicked Lovely: Melissa Marr

Airbourne: Kenneth Oppel

Skin Hunger: Kathleen Duey

Dark Wing: Kenneth Oppel

What I saw and How I Lied: Judy Blundell

The Underneath: Kathi Appelt

Piper Reed Navy Brat: Kimberly Willis Holt

*A Wizard of Earthsea: Ursula K. Le Guin

*Ginger Pye: Eleanor Estes

*Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone: J.K. Rowling

*His Dark Materials–The Subtle Knife: Philip Pullman

Eragon: Christopher Paolini

*Gregor the Overlander: Suzanne Collins

*Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane: Suzanne Collins

*Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH: Robert C O’Brien

*Note: Not all of these are first-time reads. Some books simply must be read again and again!

*Note: Not all of these are first-time reads. Some books simply must be read again and again!