Books and Stories I Read in 2009

December 2009

• Across the Pond by Storyheart (Barry Eva) (2008)
• Can Kittens Take a Catnap by Clair Palfreman-Bunker (2007)
• The Cat's Book of Romance by Kate Ledger (2003)
• The Divorce Party by Laura Dave (2008)
• The Dragons of Spratt Ohio by Linda Zinnen (2004)
• Frog Goes to Dinner by Mercer Mayer (1974)
• Frog on His Own by Mercer Mayer (1973)
• Ghost Town at Sundown (Magic Tree House #10) by Mary Pope Osborne (1997)
• Gravitation Volume 1 by Maki Murakami (2002)
• Halfway to Each Other by Susan Pohlman (2009)
• Harriet Beecher Stowe by Suzanne M. Coil (1993)
• Harriet and the Roller Coaster by Nancy Carlson (1982)
• Heat Wave by Richard Castle (2009)
• If You Can't Say Anything Nice, Say It in Yiddish by Lita Epstein (2007)
• If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond (1991)
• If You Give a Pig a Party by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond (2005)
• I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears by Jag Bhalla (2009)
• "Incubus, Succubus" by Neil James Hudson in Like Twin Stars (2009)
• Into the Volcano by Don Wood (2008)
• Journey Around the World by Sarah Albee (2008)
• Junie B., First Grader: Aloha-ha-ha! by Barbara Park (2006)
• Junie B., First Grader: BOO...and I MEAN it! by Barbara Park (2004)
• King Ottokar's Sceptre by Georges Remi Hergé (1939)
• Lions at Lunchtime (Magic Tree House #11) by Mary Pope Osborne (1998)
• Madras on Rainy Days by Samina Ali (2004)
• Max's Christmas Stocking by Rosemary Wells (2003)
• Me, Myself and I by Jane Louise Curry (1987)
• Mrs. Muffly's Monster by Sarah Dyer (2008)
• Murder in the Magick Club by Byron A. Lorrier (2009)
• Operation Starseed by JM Snyder (2002)
• Paddington Bear and the Busy Bee Carnival by Michael Bond (1998)
• Pancakes, Pancakes by Eric Carle (1991)
• Polar Bears Past Bedtime (Magic Tree House #12) by Mary Pope Osborne (1998)
• Sarah Whitcher's Story by Elizabeth Yates (1971)
• So B. It by Sarah Weeks (2004)
• Stop in the Name of Pants by Louise Rennison (2008)
• There's a Nightmare in my Closet by Mercer Mayer (1968)
• Waterwise by Joel Orff (2004)
• Wee Gillis by Munro Leaf (1938)
• What Happy Working Mothers Know by Cathy L. Greenberg (2009)
• Where Are Maisy's Friends? by Lucy Cousins (2000)
• Whoo-oo Is It? by Megan McDonald (1992)
• The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (1972)
• Wolf Song Visions by Scott and Linda Reade (1997)
• The X in Sex: How the X Chromosome Controls Our Lives by David Bainbridge (2003)
• Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss (1958)
• You Had Me at Halo by Amanda Ashby (2007)

November 2009

• All Meat Looks Like South America by Bruce McCall
• Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
• The Black Island by Georges Remi Hergé
• The Blues of Flats Brown by Walter Dean Myers
• The Bungalow Mystery (Nancy Drew #3) by Carolyn Keene
• The Cave by Steve McGill
• Chicka Chicka 123 by Bill Martin Jr. and Lois Ehlert
• A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
• Duck in a Truck by Jez Alborough
• Enemies and Allies by Kevin J. Anderson
• Frozen Tears by Mary Ann MacAfee
• Haven Stones: The Last Unicorn by Richard Carbajal
• Humanism for Parents — Parenting without Religion by Sean Curley
• Hurricane by Arnaldo Ricciulli
• I Spy Christmas by Jean Marzollo
• If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss
• Immortality Inc. by Robert Sheckley
• Mars: The Red Planet by Isaac Asimov
• Monsters! Draw Your Own Mutants, Freaks & Creeps by Jay Stephens
• North from Calcutta by Duane Evans
• Perseverance: True Voices of Cancer Survivors by Carolyn Rubenstein
• Read Me edited by Gaby Morgan
• Resonance by A. J. Scudiere
• Right to Remain Silent by Penny Warner
• Sahwira: An African Friendship by Carolyn Marsden
• The Shining by Stephen King
• Son of the Great River by Elijah Meeks
• The Sun by Ralph Winrich
• Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
• That's Not My Dinosaur by Fionna Watt
• Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
• What the Hell is a Groom and What's He Supposed to Do? by John Mitchell
• Wolf Willow by Wallace Stegner
• You Suck by Christopher Moore
• Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin

October 2009

• The Bones of Giants by Yoon Ha Lee
• Candy and Me by Hilary Liftin
• Color is Everything by Dan Bartges
• The Dancers' War (in Like Twin Stars) by N. K. Jemisin
• Dolphins at Daybreak (Magic Tree House #9) by Mary Pope Osborne
• Fairy Hunters, Ink. by Sheila A Dane
• Falling into the Sun by Charrie Hazard
• Fat Tuesday by Sandra Brown
• The Frequency of Souls by Mary Kay Zuravleff
• The Goddamned Tooth Fairy by Tina Kuzminski
• Goldilicious by Elizabeth and Victoria Kann
• Haunted (Mediator #5) by Meg Cabot
• Horrible Harry and the Green Slime by Suzy Kline
• Hunchster by Matthew Hughes
• I Spy School Days by Jean Marzollo
• Icarus Saved from the Sky by Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud
• I'd Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts by Larry Wilmore
• A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux
• The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton
• A Matter of Feeling by Janine Boissard
• The Navajo (True Books) by Alice Osinski
• The Night Villa by Carol Goodman
• No Elephants Allowed by Deborah Robinson
• On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck
• The Others by Lawrence C. Connolly
• Painting the Invisible Man by Rita Schiano
• Precious Jeopardy: A Christmas Story by Lloyd C. Douglas
• Real Sofistikashun by Tony Hoagland
• Robot Dreams by Sara Varon
• The Secret of the Pink Pokémon by Tracey West
• The Shepherd of the Hills by Harold Bell Wright
• The Sky Rained Heroes by Frederick LaCroix
• Synarchy Book 1: The Awakening by DCS
• The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène Du Bois
• The Wild Wood by Charles de Lint
• Winter Walk by Ann Burg

September 2009

• The Art of the Dragon by Sean McMullen
• Baby Dance by Ann Taylor and Marjorie van Heerden
• The Case of the Climbing Cat by Cynthia Rylant
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones by Terrance Dicks
• Fruits Basket Volume 1 by Katsuki Takaya
• Girl on a Bar Stool by Tim Roux
• The Great American Marble Book by Fred Ferretti
• A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
• Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
• How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• Kampung Boy by Lat (Mohammad Nor Khalid)
• The Lighthouse, the Cat and the Sea by Leigh W. Rutledge
• Love is a Many Trousered Thing by Louise Rennison
• Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars by Ellen MacGreggor
• Myths, Magic and Legends of Sand Art by Suzanne Lord
• On Beyond Zebra by Dr. Seuss
• Outside the Lavender Closet by Martha A. Taylor
• Secrets Unveiled by Sheshena Pledger
• Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye
• Spaceman by Mike O'Driscoll
• Testimony by Anita Shreve
• A Token of a Better Age by Melinda M. Snodgrass
• Tom and Pippo Read a Story by Helen Oxenbury
• Thump Quack Moo by Doreen Cronin (with Betsy Lewin)
• Violent Cases by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
• The Water Hole by Graeme Base
• Wet Cats by Mario Garza
• You Are Such a One by Nancy Springer

August 2009

• Adaptogenia by Wayne Wightman
• And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
• The Cat Barked? by Lydia Monks
• Cat Skidoo by Bethany Roberts and RW Alley
• City Above the Sea by Stephen Alan Saft
• City Lullaby by Marilyn Singer
• Corona Centurion™ by Terry Bisson
• Economancer by Carolyn Ives Gilman
• A Field Guide to Monsters by Johan Olander
• Grey Seas Under by Farley Mowat
• Grimm's Grimmest by Tracy Arah Dockray (with the Brothers Grimm)
• Grumpy Cat by Britta Teckentrup
• Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them by Rolfe Cobleigh
• Harriet's Recital by Nancy Carlson
• I Feel Skitty by Tracey West
• Kin (Good Neigbhors 1) by Holly Black
• The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
• Mama, Don't Go by Rebecca Wells
• No, Never! by Sally O. Lee
• Oh, the Things I Know! by Al Franken
• Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
• Paradiso Lost by Albert E. Cowdrey
• Project Anastrophe by George Karnikis
• The Publishing Game: Publish a Book in 30 Days by Fern Reiss
• The Shipwreck of a Nation by H Peter Nennhaus
• Skim by Mariko Tamaki (with Jillian Tamaki)
• Sooner or Later or Never Never by Gary Jennings
• Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss
• The Thirteenth Tale by Dianne Setterfield
• The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
• Yoko Writes Her Name by Rebecca Wells

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