Monday, January 1, 2018

TBR

On My Litsy & Goodreads Lists:

Memoirs:
Being Jazz - Jazz Jennings, 2016
Born a Crime: Stories of a South African Childhood, 2016
Educated - TAra Westover, 2018
Heart Berries - Terese Mailhot, 2018
Lab Girl - Hope Jahren, 2016
This is Just My Face, Try Not to Stare - Gabourey Sidibe,2017
Where am I Know?  True Stories of a Girl and Accidental Fame - Mara Wilson,2016

Short Stories:
The Hidden Light of Objects - Mai Al-Nakib (Middle Eastern) 2014

YA:
Define Normal - Julie Anne Peters
Emergency Contact - Mary H. K. Choi, 2018
Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi,  (fantasy/dystopia? AFrica) 2018
Son of a Trickster - Eden Robinson, 2017, Canadian. Nat Am

Graphic Novels:
Fun Home - Alison Bechdel (darkly funny memoir)
Stitches - David Small 2011 (top ten memoir)

Adult Fiction/Mystery/Thriller/HistFict/CRF/Fantasy:
City of the Lost - Kelley Armstrong, 2016
Chilbury Ladies' Choir - Jennifer Ryan, 2017 - WWII Hist Fict
IQ - Joe Ide, 2016, LA "Sherlock Holmes"
Forgotten Ones - Steena Holmes, 2018 - Investigating broken childhood memories
The Humans - Matt Haig, 2014 - Funny, extraterrestrial inhabits a professor's body
Wicked Deep - Shea Ernshaw, 2018 (witches, cursed town, fantasy)
A Grave Talent (#1 Martinelli, outsde SF) Laurie R. King, 2014
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - balli Kaur Jaswal, 2017
Origin - Dan Brown, 2017
The Cactus - Sarah Haywood, 2018 COMING 5/1/18 DO IT!!!
The Shadow Land - Elizabeth Kostova, 2017

2017 Middle Grade Novels:
Auma's Long Run-Odhiambo
Beyond the Bright Sea - Wolk
A Boy Called Bat - Arnold
Bronze and Sunflower - Cao/Wang
The Ethan I Was Before - Standish
Feliz Yz - Bunker
Funny Girl: Funniest. Stories. Ever - ed. Betsy Bird
Last Day on Mars - Emerson
Orphan Island - Snyder
Patina - Reynolds
Posted - Anderson
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth - Boyce
Stef Soto, Taco Queen - Torres
York: The Shadow of Cipher - Ruby

Previous Middle Grade Novels:
The Secrets of Blueberries, Brothers, Moose & Me - Sara Nickerson
Colin Fischer - Ashley Edward Miller
Stella by Starlight - Sharon Draper
The War that Saved My Life - Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Absolutely Truly - Heather Vogel Frederick
All the Answers - Kate Messner
Ms. Bixby's Last Day - John David Anderson
Gertie's Leap to Greatness - Kate Beasley
Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles - Shari Green
Paper Wishes - Lois Sepahban
Hour of the Bees - Lindsay Eager
Blue Birds - Caroline Starr Rose
A Tangle of Knots - Lisa Graff
Paper Boy - Vince Vawter
The Hidden Summer - Gin Phillips
The Boy on the Porch - Sharon Creech
Hokey Pokey - Jerry Spinelli
Sure Signs of Crazy - Karen Harrington
Navigating Early - Clare Vanderpool
The Secret Tree - Natalie Standiford
The Boy on the Wooden Box - Leon Leyson
The Paper Cowboy - Kristin Levine
Echo - Pam Munoz Ryan
March: Book 1 - John Lewis
House Arrest AND Rhyme Schemer by K. A. Holt

2017 Children's Holiday Books:  
The Pomegranate Witch (Halloween) - Doyen/Wheeler
Red and Lulu (Christmas) - Tavares
The Sundown Kid: A Southwestern Shabbat - Bietz/Kanzler
This is Not a Valentine - Higgins/Cummins
A World of Cookies for Santa: Follow Santa's Tasty Trip Around the World - Furman/Gal

2017 Children's Poetry 
Animal Ark - Alexander
Bravo! Poems About Amazing Hispanics - Engle/Lopez
Cricket in the Thicket: Poems about Bugs/Murray/Sweet
Family Poems for Every Day of the Week - Alarcon/Gonzalez
Feel the Beat: Dance Poems that Zing from Salsa to Swing - Singer/Valiant
I'm Just No Good at Rhyming - Harris/Smith
Keep a Pocket in Your Poem - Lewis/Wright
Let's Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout, Dance, Spin & Turn It Out!: McKissack/Pinkney
My Daddy Rules the World - Smith
A New School Year - Derby/Song
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance - Grimes - purchased 4/18
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets - Alexander, Colderley, Wentworth/Holmes - own
Song of the Wild: A First Book of Animals - Davies/Horacek - currently reading 4/18

2017 Non-Fiction Picture Books:
Apex Predators - Steve Jenkins
Balderdash: John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children's Books -Markel/Carpenter
Before She Was Harriet - Cline-Ransome/Ransome
Carolina's Comets: A True Story = McCully
Danza! Amalia Hernandez and El Ballet Folklorico de Mexico - Tonatiuh
Frido Kahlo and Her Animalitos - Brown/Parra
Germs: Fact and Fiction, Friends and Foes - Cline-Ransome/Ransome
The Girl Who Ran: Bobbi Gibb, the First Woman to Run the Boston Marathon - Poletti & Yee/Chapman
Gorilla Gardener:  How to Help Nature Take Over the World - John & Jana
Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code - Walmark/Wu
Grand Canyon - Chin
Her Right Foot - Eggers/Harris
How the Cookie Crumbled: The True (and Not-So-True) Stories of the Invention of the Chocolate Chip Cookie - Ford
A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars - Fishman/Greenberg
If You Were the Moon - Purdie/Kim
Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing - Haring/Neubecker
Malala: Activist for Girls' Education - Frier/Fronty
Martina & Chrissie - Bildner/Helquist
Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines, Designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Harvey/Phumiruk
The Music of Life: Bartolomeo Cristofori and the Invention f the Piano - Rusch/Priceman
My Awesome Summer by P. Mantis - Meisel
Noah Webster's Fighting Words (Maurer/Catasanu
Our Gift-Filled Earth - Eun Hee Na/ Ha Jin Jung
Over and Under the Pond - Messner/Neal
Pedal Power: How One Community Became the Bicycle Capital of the World - Drummond
Penguin Day: A Family Story - Bishop
Robins: How They Grow Up - Christelow
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality - Winter/Innerst
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library - Weatherford/Velasquez
Stand Up and Sing! Pete Seeger, Folk Music and the Path to Justice - Susanna Reich/Gustavson
This is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids From Around the World - Lamothe
Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity - Suzuki/Weisntein
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist - Levinson/Newton

Previous Non-Fiction Picture Books
Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix - Gary Golio
Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library - Barb Rosenstock
Louisa May's Battle: How the Civil War Led to Little Women - Kathleen Krull
Just Behave, Pablo Picasso - Jonah Winter
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Woman Changed a City Forever - Joseph H. Hopkins
The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse - Patricia MacLachlan
Papa is a Poet: A Story About Robert Frost - Natalie S. Bober
For the Birds: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson - Peggy Thomas
The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane - C. M. Millen

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