Children's Literacy Round-Up: January 4th
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What I Read in 2006

In case anyone is interested, here is the list of books that I read in 2006, for a grand total of 198 (mostly children's books, with some adult mysteries and non-fiction thrown in). Next year, I'll get to 200.

Children's and Young Adult Books

  1. Carl Hiaasen: Hoot. Completed 1/13/06.
  2. P. B. Kerr: The Akhenaten Adventure. Completed 1/21/06. My review.
  3. Meg Cabot: All-American Girl. Completed 1/28/06.
  1. Rick Riordan: The Lightning Thief (on MP3). Completed 1/29/06. My review.
  2. Meg Cabot: Darkest Hour (The Mediator, Book 4). Completed 1/29/06.
  3. Suzanne Collins: Gregor The Overlander (Underland Chronicles, Book 1). Completed 2/1/06.
  4. Peter Abrahms: Down the Rabbit Hole : An Echo Falls Mystery (Echo Falls). Completed 2/3/06. My review.
  5. Suzanne Collins: Gregor The Overlander And The Prophecy Of Bane (Underland Chronicles). Finished 2/4/06. My review.
  6. Meg Cabot: The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, Vol. 1). Completed 2/4/06.
  7. Rick Yancey: The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp (on MP3). Completed 2/8/06. My review.
  8. Suzanne Collins: Gregor And The Curse Of The Warmbloods (Underland Chronicles). Completed 2/10/06. My review.
  9. J. M. Barrie: Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition) (on MP3). Completed 2/11/06.
  10. Elise Broach: Shakespeare's Secret. Completed 2/11/06. My review.
  11. Andrew Clements: Things Not Seen. Completed 2/13/06.
  12. Annette Simon: This Book Is For All Kids, But Especially My Sister, Libby. Libby Died. (picture book). Completed 2/18/06. My review.
  13. Annette Simon: Mocking Birdies (picture book). Completed 2/18/06. My review.
  14. P. B. Kerr: Children Of The Lamp : The Blue Djinn Of Babylon (Children of the Lamp). Completed 3/5/06.
  15. Gabrielle Zevin: Elsewhere (on MP3). Completed 3/7/06. My review.
  16. Alan Silberberg: Pond Scum (a prize that I won from Susan at Chicken Spaghetti). Completed 3/11/06. My review.
  17. Sally Gardner: I, Coriander. Completed 3/12/06. My review.
  18. Eoin Colfer: The Wish List (standalone), recommended by Kim. (on MP3). Completed 3/17/06.
  19. Scott Westerfeld: Uglies. Completed 3/23/06. My review.
  20. Scott Westerfeld: Pretties (second book in series from above). Completed 3/27/06. My review.
  21. Frank Asch: Star Jumper: Journal of a Cardboard Genius. Completed 4/1/06. My review.
  22. Dana Reinhardt: A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life. (On MP3). Completed 4/2/03. My review.
  23. Alex Sanchez: Rainbow High. Completed 4/3/06. My review.
  24. Ellen Raskin: The Westing Game. Completed 4/12/06. My review.
  25. Justine Larbalestier: Magic or Madness. Completed 4/13/06. My review.
  26. Jeanne Birdsall: The Penderwicks : A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (National Book Award for Young People's Literature (Awards)). Completed 4/15/06. My review.
  27. Nadja Halilbegovich: My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary. Completed 4/16/06 (review copy from Raab Associates/Kids Can Press). My review.
  28. Chris Abouzeid: Anatopsis. Completed 4/21/06. My review.
  29. Michael Simmons: Finding Lubchenko. Completed 4/23/06. My review.
  30. Sue Corbett: Free Baseball. Completed 4/24/06. My review.
  31. Louise Erdrich: The Birchbark House. Listened on MP3. Completed 4/25/06. My review.
  32. Edith Nesbit: The Railway Children. Completed 4/29/06 on MP3. My review.
  33. Charlie Higson: Silverfin - Book #1 : A James Bond Adventure. Completed 4/29/06. My review.
  34. Garret Freymann-Weyr: Stay With Me. Completed 5/2/06. My review.
  35. Meg Cabot: Haunted (The Mediator, Book 5). Completed 5/2/06.
  36. Jennifer Holm and Matthew Holm: Babymouse: Beach Babe. Completed 5/4/06 (advance galley).
  37. Scott Westerfeld: So Yesterday. Completed 5/6/06. My review.
  38. Eoin Colfer: Half-Moon Investigations. Completed 5/9/06.
  39. Susan Taylor Brown: Oliver's Must-Do List. Completed 5/13/06. My review.
  40. Susan Taylor Brown: Hugging the Rock. Completed 5/14/06. My review.
  41. Elizabeth Enright: The Saturdays. Completed 5/14/06. My review.
  42. Justin Richards: Invisible Detective: Double Life. Completed 5/16/06. My review.
  43. Eleanor Cameron: The Court of Stone Children. Completed 5/18/06.
  44. James Patterson: Maximum Ride : The Angel Experiment. Completed 5/22/06. My review.
  45. Mike Lupica: Travel Team. Completed 5/25/06.
  46. Jeanne Duprau: The Prophet of Yonwood (Book of Ember). Completed 5/28/06, on MP3. My review.
  47. Ned Vizzini: It's Kind of a Funny Story. Completed 5/28/06. My review.
  48. Leo Lionni: Swimmy. Completed May 29, 2006.
  49. Cynthia Lord: Rules. Completed June 1, 2006. My review.
  50. Stephanie Meyer: Twilight. Completed June 6, 2006. My review.
  51. Scott Westerfeld: Specials (Uglies Trilogy). Completed June 7, 2006. My review.
  52. Meg Rosoff: How I Live Now. Completed June 6, 2006.
  53. Gary D. Schmidt: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. Completed June 7, 2006. My review.
  54. Peter Abrahams: Behind the Curtain : An Echo Falls Mystery. Completed June 14, 2006, on MP3. My review.
  55. Sue Corbett: 12 Again. Completed June 16, 2006. My review.
  56. Elizabeth Enright: The Four-Story Mistake. Completed June 16, 2006. My review.
  57. Nancy Springer: The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery. Completed June 16, 2006. My review. Completed June 16, 2006.
  58. Anna Dale: Dawn Undercover. Completed June 16, 2006. My review.
  59. Sharon Creech: Ruby Holler. Completed June 17, 2006. My review
  60. Jane Yolen: The Devil's Arithmetic. Completed June 17, 2006. My review.
  61. E. L. Konigsburg: The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place. Completed June 17, 2006. My review.
  62. Jane Langton: The Diamond in the Window. Completed June 17, 2006. My review.
  63. Jenny Nimmo: Charlie Bone And The Hidden King. Completed June 17, 2006. My review.
  64. Michele Dominguez Green: Chasing the Jaguar. Completed June 18, 2006. My review.
  65. Markus Zusak: The Book Thief. Completed June 18, 2006. My review.
  66. Tamora Pierce: Wild Magic (Immortals). Completed June 20, 2006. My review.
  67. Markus Zusak: I Am the Messenger. Completed June 23, 2006. My review.
  68. Kenneth Oppel: Airborn. Completed June 26, 2006. My review.
  69. Arthur Ransome: Swallows and Amazons. Completed June 30, 2006. My review.
  70. Michael Ende: The Neverending Story. Completed July 2, 2006. My review.
  71. L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, No. 6). Completed July 3, 2006.
  72. Stephen Cole: Thieves Like Us. Completed July 8, 2006. My review.
  73. Tanya Lee Stone: A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl. Completed July 9, 2006. My review.
  74. Eva Ibbotson: The Star of Kazan. Completed July 11, 2006. My review.
  75. Maryrose Wood: Sex Kittens and Horn Dawgs Fall in Love. Completed July 12, 2006. My review.
  76. Mary E. Pearson: A Room on Lorelei Street. Completed July 16, 2006. My review.
  77. Justin Richards: Invisible Detective: Shadow Beast. Completed July 17, 2006. My review.
  78. Rick Riordan: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters - Book Two . Completed July 18, 2006 (on MP3).
  79. Pete Hautman: Rash. Completed July 19, 2006. My review.
  80. Patrick Carman: The Dark Hills Divide: The Land of Elyon, Book 1. Completed July 23, 2006. My review.
  81. Michael Buckley: The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy-Tale Detectives - Book #1. Completed July 24, 2006. My review.
  82. Chris Lynch: Inexcusable. Completed July 24, 2006. My review.
  83. Jennifer Roy: Yellow Star. Completed July 25, 2006. My review.
  84. Tad Hills: Duck and Goose. Completed August 4, 2006.
  85. Celia Rees: Pirates!. Completed August 9, 2006. My review.
  86. Gail Gauthier: Happy Kid!. Completed August 12, 2006. My review.
  87. Diane Duane: Wizards at War. Completed August 18, 2006. My review.
  88. Shannon Hale: The Goose Girl. Completed August 20, 2006. My review.
  89. Wayne Thomas Batson: The Door Within: The Door Within Trilogy - Book One. Completed August 23, 2006. My review.
  90. Avi: Crispin: The Cross of Lead. Completed August 24, 2006. My review.
  91. Avi: Crispin: At the Edge of the World. Completed August 27, 2006. My review.
  92. Mitali Perkins: Monsoon Summer. Completed September 1, 2006. My review.
  93. Michael Buckley: The Sisters Grimm: The Unusual Suspects - Book #2. Completed September 2, 2006. My review.
  94. Marilyn Sachs: Lost in America. Completed September 3, 2006. My review.
  95. Paul Acampora: Defining Dulcie. Completed September 4, 2006.
  96. O. T. Nelson: The Girl Who Owned a City. Completed September 6, 2006.
  97. Stephenie Meyer: New Moon. Completed September 9, 2006. My review.
  98. Kirsten Miller: Kiki Strike. Completed September 12, 2006. My review.
  99. Nancy Garden: Endgame. Completed September 13, 2006.
  100. Polly Shulman: Enthusiasm. Completed September 16, 2006.
  101. Meg Cabot: How to Be Popular. Completed September 16, 2006. My review.
  102. Meg Cabot: Twilight (The Mediator, Book 6). Completed September 17, 2006.
  103. R. K. Mortenson. Landon Snow And the Auctor's Riddle. Completed September 19, 2006.
  104. Howard Whitehouse: Strictest School in the World, The: Being the Tale of a Clever Girl, a Rubber Boy and a Collection of Flying Machines, Mostly Broken (Mad Misadventures of Emmaline and Rubberbones, The). Completed September 25, 2006. My review.
  105. Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Completed September 28, 2006.
  106. Megan Whalen Turner: The Thief. Completed September 29, 2006. (My review)
  107. Barry Lyga: The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl. Completed September 30, 2006. (My review)
  108. Patricia Hermes: Salem Witch (My Side of the Story). Completed October 2, 2006. (My review)
  109. Ned Vizzini: Be More Chill. Completed October 4, 2006.
  110. Jennifer Holm: Penny from Heaven. Completed October 5, 2006. (My review)
  111. Margaret Peterson Haddix: Turnabout. Completed October 11, 2006. (My review)
  112. Bonny Becker and Abby Carter (illustrator): Holbrook: A Lizard's Tale. Completed October 14, 2006. (My review)
  113. Margaret Buffie: Out of Focus. Completed October 19, 2006.
  114. Jennifer Allison: Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator. Completed October 22, 2006. (My review)
  115. Terry Deary: The Fire Thief. Completed October 23, 2006. (My review)
  116. Patricia Bennett Wilson (ill. Sharon Bean): I Can't See, But...I Can Imagine. Picture Book. Completed October 25, 2006. (My review)
  117. The Luster Family (ill. Tina Sedonne): I Can Do Anything!. Picture Book. Completed October 25, 2006. (My review)
  118. Fumiko Takeshita (ill. Jun Takabatake): Hello, Hello. Picture Book. Completed October 25, 2006.
  119. Gusti: Half of an Elephant. Picture Book. Completed October 25, 2006.
  120. Oneones: Happy Birthday Coco. Picture Book. Completed October 25, 2006. (My review.)
  121. Naomi Kojima: Singing Shijimi Clams. Picture Book. Completed October 25, 2006. (My review)
  122. Tony Ross: Say Please! (Little Princess Books). Picture Book. Completed October 25, 2006. My review.
  123. Mark David: Crazy Cars. Picture Book. Completed October 25, 2006. (My review).
  124. Zai Whitaker (ill. Natarajan): Kali And the Rat Snake. Picture Book. Completed October 25, 2006. (My review).
  125. Terry Deary: Flight of the Fire Thief (The Fire Thief). Completed October 28, 2006. (My review).
  126. Paul Fleischman: Seedfolks (Joanna Colter Books). Completed October 28, 2006. (My review).
  127. William McBride: Entertaining an Elephant: A Novel about Learning & Letting Go. Completed October 29, 2006.
  128. Sarah Weeks: Jumping the Scratch. Completed October 30, 2006. (My review)
  129. Jenny Han: Shug. Completed November 2. (My review)
  130. Mo Willems: Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct. Completed November 4, 2006.
  131. Kirby Larson: Hattie Big Sky. Completed November 6, 2006. (My review.)
  132. Cynthia Voigt: Homecoming (Tillerman Series). Completed November 12, 2006.
  133. John Green: An Abundance of Katherines. Completed November 19, 2006. My review.
  134. Patricia McCormick: Sold. Completed November 22, 2006. My review.
  135. Francisco X. Stork: Behind the Eyes. Completed November 23, 2006. My review.
  136. Stacia Deutsch & Rhody Cohon: Blast to the Past #6: Ben Franklin's Fame. Completed November 25, 2006. My review.
  137. Darrel & Sally Odgers: Jack Russell: Dog Detective: Dog Den Mystery. Completed November 25, 2006. My review.
  138. Robin Pulver, illustrated by Chuck Richards: Author Day for Room 3T. Completed November 26, 2006. My review.
  139. Robin Pulver, illustrated by Tedd Arnold: Axle Annie. Completed November 26, 2006. My review.
  140. Robin Pulver, illustrated by Layne Johnson: Christmas for a Kitten. Completed November 26, 2006. My review.
  141. Robin Pulver, illustrated by Tedd Arnold: Axle Annie and the Speed Grump. Completed November 26, 2006. My review.
  142. T. K. Welsh: The Unresolved. Completed December 7, 2006.
  143. T. K. Welsh: Resurrection Men. Completed December 7, 2006.
  144. Annie Bryant: Worst Enemies, Best Friends (Beacon Street Girls). Completed December 10, 2006. My review.
  145. Annie Bryant: Lake Rescue (Beacon Street Girls). Completed December 14, 2006. My review.
  146. Catherine Webb: The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle. Completed December 20, 2006.
  147. Jordan Sonnenblick: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie. Completed December 24, 2006.
  148. Laura Whitcomb: A Certain Slant of Light. Completed December 29, 2006.

Adult Fiction

  1. Marcia Preston: #1 Perhaps She'll Die. Completed 1/2/06.
  2. Nelson DeMille: Night Fall. Completed 1/7/06.
  3. Linwood Barclay: Bad Move. Completed 1/12/06.
  4. Jacqueline Winspear: Birds of a Feather (second in series). Completed 1/13/06.
  5. Henning Mankell: Sidetracked (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard). Completed 1/28/06.
  6. Henning Mankell: The Fifth Woman (A Kurt Wallander Mystery). Completed 2/9/06.
  7. Jacqueline Winspear: #3 Pardonable Lies : A Maisie Dobbs Novel. Completed 2/18/06. My review.
  8. Henning Mankell: #6 One Step Behind. Completed 2/23/06.
  9. Gene Riehl: Quantico Rules. Completed 2/27/06.
  10. Henning Mankell: #7 Firewall (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard). Completed 3/5/06.
  11. Henning Mankell: Before the Frost. Completed 3/23.
  12. Maureen Jennings: Night's Child : A Detective Murdoch Mystery (Detective Murdoch Mysteries). Completed 3/24/06.
  13. Kazou Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go. Completed 3/30/06.
  14. Elizabeth George: With No One as Witness (Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers Novels). Completed 4/6/06.
  15. Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea (Aunt Dimity). Completed 4/8/06. My review.
  16. Elizabeth Ironside: Death in the Garden. Completed 4/13/06. My review.
  17. Rhys Bowen: Oh Danny Boy (Molly Murphy Mysteries). Completed 4/16/06.
  18. Elizabeth Brundage: The Doctor's Wife. Completed 4/20/06.
  19. Anne Perry: Angels in the Gloom : A Novel (World War One Novels). Completed 4/26/06.
  20. Jonnie Jacobs: The Only Suspect. Completed 4/30/06, in one day.
  21. Denise Hamilton: Savage Garden (Eve Diamond Novels). Completed 5/4/06.
  22. Gary Braver: Flashback. Completed 5/14/06.
  23. Gary Troup: Bad Twin. Completed 5/19/06, on MP3.
  24. James Rollins: Map of Bones. Completed 5/27/06.
  25. Jo Dereske: Bookmarked to Die (Miss Zukas Mysteries). Completed 6/5/2006.
  26. Jodi Picoult: The Tenth Circle : A Novel. Completed 6/07/06.
  27. Morag Joss: Funeral Music (Sara Selkirk Mysteries). Completed 6/22/06.
  28. Richard Barre: Blackheart Highway (Wil Hardesty Novels). Completed 7/1/06.
  29. Victoria Thompson: Murder on Lenox Hill. Completed 8/7/06.
  30. Richard Barre: The Ghosts of Morning. Completed 8/9/06.
  31. Janet Evanovich: Twelve Sharp (Stephanie Plum Novels). Completed 8/18/06.
  32. Chris Grabenstein: Tilt-a-Whirl. Completed 8/21/06. My review.
  33. Laurie R. King: The Art of Detection. Completed 8/23/06 (on MP3).
  34. Susan Wittig Albert: The Tale of Hill Top Farm (The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter). Completed 8/30/06.
  35. Robert Crais: The Two Minute Rule. Completed 9/5/06.
  36. Chris Bohjalian: Before You Know Kindness. Completed 9/8/06.
  37. Jeffrey Deaver: The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel. Completed 9/14/06.
  38. Andrea Camilleri: Excursion to Tindari: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery. Completed October 12, 2006.
  39. Barbara Cleverly: The Last Kashmiri Rose. Completed October 13, 2006.
  40. Diane Setterfield: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel. Completed November 4, 2006. My review.
  41. F. Paul Wilson: Infernal. Completed December 7, 2006.
  42. Michael Connelly: Echo Park. Completed December 10, 2006.

Adult Non-Fiction

  1. Maureen Corrigan: Leave Me Alone: I'm Reading. Completed 1/2/06. My review.
  2. Steve Leveen: The Little Guide to your Well-Read Life. Completed 1/14/06. My review.
  3. Jason Kotecki: Escape Adulthood. Completed 1/31/06. My review.
  4. Anne Fadiman: Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader. Completed 2/21/06. Listened on MP3.
  5. David Brouchard and Wendy Sutton: The Gift of Reading: A Guide for Educators and Parents. Completed 2/27/06.

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