Below are the book reviews I have on this blog. They are listed alphabetically by the title of the book.
32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter
Alex Rider: Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter
A
All Her Father's Guns by James Warner
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Angry Management by Chris Crutcher
Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Anne Frank by Sid Jacobson
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
As Easy as Falling off the Face of the Earth by Lynne Rae Perkins
Ashes to Water by Irene Ziegler
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Audition by Stasia Ward Kehoe
Aung San Suu Kyi by Judy L. Hasday
Aya by Marguerite Abouet and Clemente Oubrerie
Aya of Yop City by Marguerite Abouet and Clemente Oubrerie
Aya: Secrets Come Out by Marguerite Abouet and Clemente Oubrerie
B
The Baggage Handler by Colin BrowneBamboo People by Mitali Perkins
Barefoot in Baghdad by Manal M. Omar
Beet Fields by Gary Paulsen
before i fall by Lauren Oliver
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
The Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Between a Rock and a Hot Place: Why Fifty is not the New Thirty by Tracey Jackson
Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam by Zainab Salbi
Bill Bryson's African Diary by Bill Bryson
Blank Confession by Pete Hautman
The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine
Body Drama by Nancy Redd
Book Lust to Go by Nancy Pearl
Boost by Kathy Mackel
Borderline by Allan Stratton
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Born Under a Million Shadows by Andrea Busfield
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
Broken Birds by Jeannette Katzir
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Buried Onions by Gary Soto
Burn My Heart by Beverley Naidoo
Burnout by Adrienne Maria Vrettos
C
Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir ShahCandor by Pam Bachorz
Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd
The Case for the Only Child by Susan Newman
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Cemetery of Dreams by S. Mostofi
Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles
Chasing Windmills by Catherin Ryan Hyde
Choosing WEb 2.0 Tools for Learning and Teaching in a Digital World by Pam Berger and Sally Trexler
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Coffee at Little Angles by Nadine Rose Larter
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad
Creating a World Without Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Crossing by Andrew Xia Fukuda
D
Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert MurdockThe Day the Women Got the Vote by George Sullivan
Deadville by Ron Koertge
Debbie Harry Sings in French by Megean Brothers
Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda by Jean-Philippe Stassen
Desert Angel by Charlie Price
Dewey by Vicki Myron
Diamond Ruby by Joseph Wallace
Diaries of a Beverly Hills Matchmaker by Marla Martenson
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Donut Days by Lara Zielin
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg
The Dressmaker of Khair Khan by Gayle Tzenach Lemmon
E
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineThe Enough Moment by John Prendergast and Don Cheadle
Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario
The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim
Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King
Every Little Thing in the World by Nina de Gramont
The Ex Games by Jennifer Echols
Ex-mas by Kate Brian
F
Fade to Blue by Bill MoodyA Family Secret by Eric Heuvel
Farishta by Patricia McArdle
Far to Go by Alison Pick
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
The Fault in our Stars by John Green
Feed by M.T. Anderson
Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
Fire from the Rock by Sharon M. Draper
First Kill Your Family by Peter Eichstaedt
Fist Sick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada
Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John
Flash Burnout by L.K. Madigan
FlyGirl by Sherri Smith
For Blood or Money by Nathan Everett
The Four Ms. Bradwells by Meg Waite Clayton
Freaks and Revelations by Davida Wills Hurwin
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
G
Geeks by Jon KatzGeneration Dead by Daniel Water
Gentlemen by Michael Northrop
The Geography of Girlhood by Kirsten Smith
The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow
Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
The God Box by Alex Sanchez
Good Long Way by Rene Saldana, Jr
Goodnight iPad by Ann Droyd
The Great Call of China by Cynthea Liu
Gringolandia by Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera
Guardian by Julius Lester
Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark
Gun Games by Faye Kellerman
Gym Candy by Carl Deuker
H
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunnThe Hand You're Dealt by Paul Volponi
Hangman by Faye Kellerman
Happy Accidents by Jane Lynch
Harry Potter: Film Wizardry by Brian Sibley
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Haunting Jasmine by Anjali Banerjee
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Hitler's Canary by Sandi Toksvig
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
However Tall the Mountain by Awista Ayub
Human .4 by Mike Lancaster
Hummingbirds by Joshua Gaylord
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Hush by Eishes Chayil
I
I am a Taxi by Deborah EllisI am J by Cris Beam
I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali
I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
If Love Hurts edited by Pam vender Heide
Illegal by Bettina Restrepo
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Implosion of Aggie Winchester by Lara Zielin
Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
The Investment Answer by Daniel Goldie and Gordie Murray
Invisible Lives by Anjali Banerjee
IQ: How Psychology Hijacked Intelligence by Stephen Murdoch
IraqiGirl edited by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
Ironman by Chris Crutcher
J
The Juvie Three by Gordon KormanJames and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Jazz in Love by Neesha Meminger
Jumping off Swings by Jo Knowles
Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Just One Wish by Janette Rallison
K
Keeping Corner by Kashmira ShethKendra by Coe Booth
Kick by Walter Dean Myers and Ross Workman
Kids from Nowhere by George Guthridge
Kids with Courage by Barbara Lewis
Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock
L
Laika by Nick AbadzisLegend by Marie Lu
Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou
Leverage by Joshua C. Cohen
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Little Princes by Conor Grennan
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore
Lost by Jacqueline Davies
Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan by John Bul Dau and Martha Arual Akech
Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
Love in Translation by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga
Love is the Higher Law by David Levithan
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
M
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra DeanMare's War by Tanita S. Davis
Martha Graham by Russell Freedman
The Mascot by Mark Kurzem
Matched by Allyson Condie
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, adapted by Paul Kuper
Miles from Ordinary by Carol Lynch Williams
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway
Monsoon Summer by Mitali Perkins
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
The Morge and Me by John Ford
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
Murder in the Name of Honor by Rana Husseini
Muslim Women Reformers by Ida Lichter
My Brother's Shadow by Monika Schroder
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Nelson Mandela: the Authorized Comic Book by the Nelson Mandela FoundationThe Next Thing on My List by Jill Smolinski
Not Easily Washed Away: Memoir of Muslim Daughter by Anon Beauty
Notes to Self by Avery Sawyer
Nothing Pink by Mark Hardy
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
Now is the Time for Running by Michael Williams
Numbers by Rachel Ward
O
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth StroutOlives by Alexander McNabb
One Good Punch by Rich Wallace
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
Outcasts United: a refugee team, an American town by Warren St. John
P
Palestine by Joe SaccoParty by Tom Leveen
Pedro and Me by Judd Winick
Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
Perfect Shot by Debbie Rigaud
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Persepolis and Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Plastic by Sarah N. Harvey
Playground by 50 Cent
Possessing Jessie by Nancy Springer
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore
Pride and Prejudice by Nancy Butler
Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan and Nick Henrichon
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick
Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright
Q-R
The Rabbi's Cat by Joann SfarRadio Shangri-La by Lisa Napoli
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Reality Check by Peter Abrahams
Response by Paul Volponi
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Riot by Walter Dean Myers
Room by Emma Donoghue
Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles
Run by Ann Patchett
The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen
Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay
S
Seaglass Summer by Anjali BanerjeeThe Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
The Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins
The Secret Year by Jennifer R. Hubbard
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup by Ron Koertge
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Sharing our Homeland: Palestinian and Jewish Children at Summer Peace Camp by Trish Marx
Shattered by Paul Langan
The Shattering by Karen Healey
Shine by Lauren Myracle
Shine, Coconut Moon by Neesha Meminger
Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai
A Short History of Africa by Gordon Kerr
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer
Shutout by Brendan Halpin
Sing Me to Sleep by Angela Morrison
Sisters of the Sari by Brenda L. Baker
Then Skin I'm In by Sharon G. Flake
The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Sophomore Switch by Abby McDonald
Sold by Patricia McCormick
Spies of Mississippi by Rick Bowers
Split by Swati Avasthi
Stay by Allie Larkin
Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn
Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson
Stotan by Chris Crutcher
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Surf Mules by Greg Neri
T
Tattoo by Jennifer BarnesTeaching Digital Natives by Marc Prensky
Thaw by Fiona Robyn
A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to be a Woman by Lisa Shannon
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Threadbare Heart by Jennie Nash
Trapped by Michael Northrop
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Trash by Andy Mulligan
Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe by Doreen Baingana
The Trouble with Half a Moon by Danette Vigilante
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (audio)
U-V
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Ugly to Start With by John Cummings
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Unidentified by Rae Mariz
Unknown Soldier: Haunted House by Joshua Dysart (graphic novel)
Unlocked by Ryan G. Van Cleave
The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd
Viola in Reel Life by Adriana Trigiani
Violence 101 by Denis Wright
The Violin of Auschwitz by Maria Angels Anglada
W
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter SisWandering Girl by Glenyse Ward
Wanting Mor by Khan
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
The Wave by Todd Strasser
Wine to Water by Doc Hendley
Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
What You Wish For (short stories by various authors)
When She Flew by Jennie Shortridge
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
When the Stars go Blue by Caridad Ferrer
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Where She Went by Gayle Forman
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
Wherever Nina Lies by Lynn Weingarten
Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey
Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama
Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur
The Writing on My Forehead by Nafisa Haji
X-Y-Z
You'd be prettier if... by Dara ChadwickYummy: Last Days of a Southside Shorty by Greg Neri
Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and TR Simon
