Index of My Reviews

This page contains links to all of my book reviews to date. Within each category, books are sorted by the author's name, to make it easy to find particular books.

Picture Books

• Jez Alborough: Fix-It Duck
• Felice Arena: Sally and Dave: A Slug Story
• Dianna Hutts Aston (ill. Frank W. Dormer): Not So Tall for Six
• Dianna Hutts Aston (Author) and Sylvia Long (Illustrator): An Egg is Quiet
• Dianna Hutts Aston (Author) and Sylvia Long (Illustrator): A Seed is Sleepy
• Andrea Beaty (ill. Pascal Lemaitre): Doctor Ted
• Bonny Becker (ill. Kady Macdonald Denton): A Visitor for Bear
• Kate Bernheimer (ill. Nicoletta Ceccoli): The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum
• Anette Bley: And What Comes After a Thousand?
• Susan Taylor Brown: Oliver's Must-Do List
• Eve Bunting (ill. Judy Love): The Baby Shower
• Eileen Christelow: Five Little Monkeys Go Shopping
• Mark David: Crazy Cars
• Jacqueline Davies (ill. Lee White): The House Takes a Vacation
• Olivier Dunrea: Ollie the Stomper
• Tim Egan: The Pink Refrigerator
• Tim Egan: Dodsworth in New York
• Elizabeth Ficocelli (ill. Glin Dibley): Kid Tea
• Eugene W. Field (ill. Giselle Potter): Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
• Stacey Gabel (ill. Richard Neuman): The New Blue Tractor
• Taro Gomi: Squiggles
• Janet Halfmann: Little Skink's Tail
• Charise Mericle Harper: When Randolph Turned Rotten
• Robert Heidbreder (author) and Kady MacDonald Denton (illustrator): A Sea-Wishing Day
• Karen Katz: Princess Baby
• Eric A. Kimmel (ill. Stephen Gilpin): The Three Cabritos
• Timothy Knapman (ill. Gwen Millward): Guess What I Found in Dragon Wood?
• Naomi Kojima: Singing Shijimi Clams
• Jack Lechner (ill. Bob Staake): Mary Had a Little Lamp
• Suzy Lee: The Zoo
• Barbara Lehman: Rainstorm
• Barbara Lehman: Trainstop
• Liz Lofthouse (ill. Robert Ingpen): Ziba Came on a Boat
• The Luster Family (ill. Tina Sedonne): I Can Do Anything!
• Jonathan London (ill. Viviana Garofoli): My Big Rig
• Scott Magoon: Hugo & Miles in I've Painted Everything!
• Pooja Makhijani (ill. Elena Gomez): Mama's Saris
• Alice B. McGinty (ill. Nancy Speir): Eliza's Kindergarten Surprise
• Cece Meng (author) and Janet Pedersen (illustrator): The Wonderful Thing About Hiccups
• Jessica Meserve: Small Sister
• Chris Monroe: Monkey with a Tool Belt
• Oneones: Happy Birthday Coco
• Lynn Plourde (ill. Mitch Vance): A Mountain of Mittens
• Robin Pulver (ill. by Chuck Richards): Author Day for Room 3T.
• Robin Pulver (ill. by Layne Johnson): Christmas for a Kitten.
• Robin Pulver (ill. by Tedd Arnold): Axle Annie and Axle Annie and the Speed Grump
• Dian Curtis Regan (ill. Amanda Gulliver): Peek-A-Boo Zoo
• Tony Ross: Say Please!
• Michael Sandler: Manny Ramirez and the Boston Red Sox
• Michael Sandler: Pararescuemen in Action
• Charles Santore: The Silk Princess
• Jon Scieszka (ill. David Shannon, Loren Long, and David Gordon): Smash! Crash! (Trucktown)
• Josh Schneider: You'll Be Sorry
• Annette Simon: Mocking Birdies
• Annette Simon: This Book is for All Kids, but Especially my Sister Libby. Libby Died.
• John Stadler: Big and Little
• Rachel Vail (ill. Matthew Cordell): Righty and Lefty: A Tale of Two Feet
• Nancy Elizabeth Wallace: Shells! Shells! Shells!
• Vivian Walsh (ill. J. Otto Seibold): Olive, the Other Reindeer
• Mélanie Watt: Scaredy Squirrel and Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend
• David Wiesner: Flotsam (2007 Caldecott winner)
• Zai Whitaker (ill. Natarajan): Kali And the Rat Snake).
• Patricia Bennett Wilson (ill. Sharon Bean): I Can't See, But...I Can Imagine
• Sallie Wolf (ill. Andy Robert Davies): Truck Stuck
• Jane Yolen (ill. Mark Teague): How Do Dinosaurs Go To School?

Books for Independent Readers

• Chris Abouzeid: Anatopsis
• Peter Abrahms: Down the Rabbit Hole and Behind the Curtain
• Jennifer Allison: Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator
• Kathi Appelt: The Underneath
• Linda Buckley Archer: The Time Thief
• Frank Asch: Star Jumper: Journal of a Cardboard Genius
• Frank Asch: Gravity Buster: Journal #2 of a Cardboard Genius
• Avi: Crispin: The Cross of Lead and Crispin: At the Edge of the World
• Annie Barrows, illustrated by Sophie Blackall: Ivy and Bean Break the Fossil Record
• Ruth McNally Barshaw: Ellie McDoodle: New Kid in School
• Wayne Thomas Batson: The Door Within
• Andrea Beaty: Cicada Summer
• Bonny Becker and Abby Carter (illustrator): Holbrook: A Lizard's Tale
• Jeanne Birdsall: The Penderwicks and The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
• Eric Berlin: The Puzzling World of Winston Breen
• Heather Brewer: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites
• Pseudonymous Bosch: The Name of this Book is Secret
• Frank Cottrell Boyce: Framed
• Elise Broach: Shakespeare's Secret
• Annie Bryant: Worst Enemies/Best Friends and Lake Rescue (Beacon Street Girls books)
• Annie Bryant: Maeve on the Red Carpet (A Beacon Street Girls Adventure)
• Susan Taylor Brown: Hugging the Rock.
• Michael Buckley: The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy Tale Detectives and The Sisters Grimm: The Unusual Suspects
• Frances Hodgson Burnett: Little Lord Fauntleroy
• Dia Calhoun: The Return of Light: A Christmas Tale
• Patrick Carman: The Dark Hills Divide: The Land of Elyon, Book 1
• John Christopher: The Prince in Waiting (Book 1: Sword of the Spirits trilogy)
• John Christopher: Beyond the Burning Lands (Book 2: Sword of the Spirits trilogy)
• John Christopher: The Sword of the Spirits (Book 3: Sword of the Spirits Trilogy)
• Eoin Colfer: Half-Moon Investigations
• Suzanne Collins: Gregor the Overlander series, books 1 and 2.
• Suzanne Collins: Gregor and the Marks of Secret (Underland Chronicles, Book 4)
• Suzanne Collins: Gregor and the Code of Claw (Underland Chronicles, Book 5)
• Susan Cooper: King of Shadows
• Sue Corbett: Free Baseball
• Sue Corbett: 12 Again.
• Sharon Creech: Ruby Holler.
• Anna Dale: Dawn Undercover.
• Karen Day: No Cream Puffs
• Terry Deary: The Fire Thief and Flight of the Fire Thief
• Stacia Deutsch & Rhody Cohon: Blast to the Past #6: Ben Franklin's Fame
• Stacia Deutsch & Rhody Cohon: Blast to the Past #8: Betsy Ross's Star
• Bonnie Dobkin: Neptune's Children
• Siobhan Dowd: The London Eye Mystery
• Jeanne DuPrau: The Prophet of Yonwood
• Jeanne DuPrau: The Diamond of Darkhold
• Sarah Beth Durst: Into The Wild.
• Michelle Edwards: Pa Lia's First Day: A Jackson Friends Book
• Michael Ende: The Neverending Story
• Elizabeth Enright: The Saturdays.
• Elizabeth Enright: The Four-Story Mistake.
• Louise Erdrich: The Birchbark House
• John Fardell: The 7 Professors of the Far North
• Brenda Ferber: Julia's Kitchen
• Greg Fishbone: The Penguins of Doom (From the Desk of Septina Nash)
• Gail Gauthier: A Girl, A Boy, and a Monster Cat and A Girl, A Boy, and Three Robbers
• Gail Gauthier: Happy Kid!
• Maurice Gee: The Fire-Raiser
• Patricia Reilly Giff: Eleven
• Margaret Peterson Haddix: Found (The Missing, Book 1)
• Margaret Peterson Haddix: Running Out of Time
• Margaret Peterson Haddix: Turnabout
• Mary Downing Hahn: All the Lovely Bad Ones
• Nadja Halilbegovich: My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary
• Jenny Han: Shug
• Katherine Hannigan: Ida B: . . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World.
• Charise Mericle Harper: Just Grace
• Patricia Hermes: Salem Witch (My Side of the Story)
• Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm: Babymouse: Beach Babe
• Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm: Babymouse: Heartbreaker
• Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm: Babymouse: Puppy Love
• Jennifer L. Holm. Penny From Heaven
• Sara Lewis Holmes: Letters from Rapunzel
• Eva Ibbotson: The Star of Kazan
• Cynthia Kadohata: Weedflower.
• P. G. Kain: The Social Experiments of Dorie Dilts: Dumped by Popular Demand.
• P. G. Kain: The Social Experiments of Dorie Dilts: The School for Cool
• Marlane Kennedy: Me and the Pumpkin Queen
• Rose Kent: Kimchi & Calamari
• P. B. Kerr: The Akhenaten Adventure (Children of the Lamp series)
• Elizabeth Cody Kimmel: Suddenly Supernatural: School Spirit
• E. L. Konigsburg: The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place.
• R. L. LaFevers: Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
• Jane Langton: The Diamond in the Window.
• Debbie Levy: Underwater.
• Cynthia Lord: RULES
• Tim Lott: Fearless
• Lois Lowry: The Willoughbys
• Mike Lupica: Heat
• MAC: Anna Smudge: Professional Shrink (The Professionals)
• Kerry Madden: The Maggie Valley trilogy
• Patricia Martin: Lulu Atlantis and the Quest for True Blue Love
• Wendy Mass: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
• Hilary McKay: Saffy's Angel
• Sarah Miller: Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller
• Edith Nesbit: The Railway Children
• Jenny Nimmo: Charlie Bone and the Hidden King.
• Darrel & Sally Odgers: Jack Russell: Dog Detective: Dog Den Mystery.
• Katherine Paterson: Bread and Roses, Too
• David Patneaude: A Piece of the Sky
• Sara Pennypacker (ill. Marla Frazee): Clementine, The Talented Clementine, and Clementine's Letter
• Mitali Perkins: Rickshaw Girl
• Ellen Potter (ill. Peter H. Reynolds): Olivia Kidney
• Arthur Ransome: Swallows and Amazons.
• Ellen Raskin: The Westing Game
• Dian Curtis Regan: Princess Nevermore and Cam's Quest
• Justin Richards: The Invisible Detective: Double Life and The Invisible Detective: Shadow Beast
• Rick Riordan: The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4)
• Rick Riordan: The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4)
• Nick Ruth, illustrated by Sue Concannon: The Dark Dreamweaver (Book 1 of the Remin Chronicles)
• Marilyn Sachs: Lost in America
• Jill Santopolo: Alex Flint: Super Sleuth: The Nina, the Pinta, and the Vanishing Treasure
• Laura Amy Schlitz: A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama
• Gary D. Schmidt: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
• Alan Silberberg: Pond Scum
• Alexander McCall Smith (ill. Laura Rankin): The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean
• Justine Smith (ill. Jan Lewis): How To Be A Spy in 7 Days or Less
• Zilpha Keatley Snyder: The Velvet Room
• Zilpha Keatley Snyder: The Velvet Room and The Changeling
• Zilpha Keatley Snyder: The Green Sky Trilogy
• Zilpha Keatley Snyder: The Treasures of Weatherby
• Nancy Springer: The Case of the Missing Marquess.
• Trenton Lee Stewart (ill. Carson Ellis): The Mysterious Benedict Society and The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
• Megan Whalen Turner: The Thief
• Linda Urban: A Crooked Kind of Perfect
• Sarah Weeks: Jumping the Scratch
• N. D. Wilson: 100 Cupboards
• N. D. Wilson: Leepike Ridge
• Joan M. Wolf: Someone Named Eva
• Howard Whitehouse: The Strictest School in the World
• Jane Yolen: The Devil's Arithmetic.
• E. L. Young: STORM: The Infinity Code

Books for Young Adults

• Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak
• Jay Asher: Thirteen Reasons Why
• Robin Benway: Audrey, Wait!
• S. A. Bodeen: The Compound
• Robin Brande: Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature
• Julie Bretagna: Exodus
• Meg Cabot: How to Be Popular
• Dia Calhoun: The Phoenix Dance
• Cecil Castellucci: Boy Proof
• Crissa-Jean Chappell: Total Constant Order
• Rachel Cohn and David Levithan: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
• Stephen Cole: Thieves Like Us
• Cory Doctorow: Little Brother
• Diane Duane: Wizards at War.
• Paul Fleischman: Seedfolks
• Garret Freymann-Weyr: Stay With Me
• Alma Fullerton: In the Garage
• Sally Gardner: I, Coriander
• Allegra Goodman: The Other Side of the Island
• John Green: An Abundance of Katherines
• Michele Dominguez Green: Chasing the Jaguar.
• Judy Gregerson: Bad Girls Club
• Mary Downing Hahn: Deep and Dark and Dangerous
• Shannon Hale: The Goose Girl.
• S. A. Harazin: Blood Brothers
• Pete Hautman: Rash.
• Justina Chen Headley: Girl Overboard
• Justina Chen Headley: Nothing but the Truth (and a few white lies)
• Charlie Higson: Silverfin - Book #1: A James Bond Adventure
• Steve Kluger: My Most Excellent Year
• Jo Knowles: Lessons from a Dead Girl
• Justine Larbalestier: Magic or Madness
• Kirby Larson: Hattie Big Sky
• E. Lockhart: The Boyfriend List (15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver)
• Barry Lyga: The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
• Chris Lynch: Inexcusable
• Gemma Malley: The Declaration
• John Marsden: Tomorrow series (7 titles)
• Wendy Mass: Heaven Looks A Lot Like the Mall
• Patricia McCormick: Sold
• Stephenie Meyer: Twilight
• Stephenie Meyer: New Moon
• Stephenie Meyer: Eclipse
• Kirsten Miller: Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City
• Catherine Gilbert Murdock: Dairy Queen
• Catherine Gilbert Murdock: The Off Season
• Kenneth Oppel: Airborn
• James Patterson: Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
• Mary E. Pearson: A Room on Lorelei Street
• Mary E. Pearson: The Adoration of Jenna Fox
• Ridley Pearson: Steel Trapp: The Challenge
• Mitali Perkins: Monsoon Summer
• Mitali Perkins: First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover
• Susan Beth Pfeffer: the dead & the gone
• Susan Beth Pfeffer: Life As We Knew It
• Tamora Pierce: Wild Magic (#1 in the Immortals Quartet)
• Margo Rabb: Cures for Heartbreak
• Celia Rees: Pirates!
• Dana Reinhardt: A Brief Chapter in my Impossible Life
• Malcolm Rose: Double Check (Traces #4)
• Malcolm Rose: Blood Brother (Traces #6)
• Meg Rosoff: How I Live Now
• Jennifer Roy: Yellow Star.
• John van de Ruit: Spud
• Alex Sanchez: Rainbow High
• Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch: Daughter of War
• Michael Simmons: Finding Lubchenko
• Jordan Sonnenblick: Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
• Jordan Sonnenblick: Notes from the Midnight Driver
• J. M. Steele: The Market
• Tanya Lee Stone: A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl
• Francisco X. Stork: Behind the Eyes
• Laini Taylor: Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer
• Susan Vaught: Trigger
• Ned Vizzini: It's Kind of a Funny Story
• Heather Waldorf: Grist
• Melissa Walker: Violet on the Runway
• Catherine Webb: The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle
• T. K. Welsh: The Unresolved.
• T. K. Welsh: Resurrection Men
• Scott Westerfeld: Uglies (first in Uglies trilogy)
• Scott Westerfeld: Pretties (second in Uglies trilogy)
• Scott Westerfeld: Specials (third in Uglies trilogy)
• Scott Westerfeld: Extras (fourth in Uglies trilogy)
• Ellen Emerson White: Long May She Reign
• F. Paul. Wilson: Jack: Secret Histories
• Maryrose Wood: My Life: The Musical
• Maryrose Wood: Sex Kittens and Horn Dawgs Fall in Love
• Rick Yancey: The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp
• Rick Yancey: Alfred Kropp: The Seal of Solomon
• Sara Zarr: Story of a Girl
• Sara Zarr: Sweethearts
• Jennifer Ziegler: How NOT to be Popular
• Gabrielle Zevin: Elsewhere
• Gabrielle Zevin: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
• Markus Zusak: The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger

Adult Fiction (Mostly Mysteries)

• Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea
• Jo Dereske: Catalogue of Death: A Miss Zukas Mystery
• Chris Grabenstein: Tilt A Whirl
• Elizabeth Ironside: Death in the Garden
• Louise Penny: Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery
• Jodi Picoult: Nineteen Minutes
• Diane Setterfield: The Thirteenth Tale
• Julia Spencer-Fleming: I Shall Not Want
• Jacqueline Winspear: Pardonable Lies

Adult Non-Fiction

• Maureen Corrigan: Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading
• Keith Ferrazzi: Never Eat Alone
• Jason Kotecki: Escape Adulthood
• Steve Leveen: The Little Guide to your Well-Read Life