Books I read in 2017

Happy New Year!!!!
I read so many books in 2017, so I want to share them with you all! They will be listed in the order I read them. If it has an asterisk (*) it means I read it for a challenge. I do not like all of these books, or recommend them. If you are interested, here is my list from 2016. One day, I hope to review all of them!

New to me reads:

A Study in Scarlet - by Arthur Conan Doyle
Story's End - by Marrisa Burt
Inside Out and Back Again - by Thannha Lai
The Q - by Beth Brower
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children - by Ransom Riggs (shudder)
Pride & Prejudice - by Jane Austen (Parts One, Two, Three, and Four)
Travels with Gannon and Wyatt: Botswana - by Patti Wheeler and Keith Hemsteer
Faithful - by Janet Fox
Real Food/Fake Food - by Larry Olmsted
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - by J.R.R.Tolkien
Walk Two Moons - by Sharon Creech
Finding Love in Sun Valley, Idaho - by Angela Ruth Strong
Liffey Rivers and the Mystery of the Sparkling Solo Dress Crown - by Brenna Briggs
Sage Paints the Sky - by Jessie Haas
Meet Josefina: An American Girl - by Valerie Tripp
The Georges and the Jewels - by Jane Smiley
Naya Nuki: Shoshoni Girl Who Ran - by Kenneth Thomasma
Framed - by Frank Cottrell Boyce
The Tail of Emily Windsnap - by Liz Kessler
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - by J.K. Rowling
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew - by Margaret Sidney
The Sign of the Four - by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - by J.R.R.Tolkien
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - by Howard Pyle
Dave at Night - by Gail Carson Levine *
The Teen's Guide to World Domination - by Josh Shipp
An Autobiography - by Agatha Christie
Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy - by Tui T. Sutherland
Liesl & Po - by Lauren Oliver *
The Journal of Jesse Smoke, A Cherokee Boy - by Joseph Bruchac
Five Glass Slippers - by Elisabeth Brown, Emma Clifton, Rachel Heffington, Stephanie Ricker, and Clara Diane Thompson.
The Land of Stories: Worlds Collide - by Chris Colfer
The Jungle Book - by Rudyard Kipling
Just Ella - Margaret Peterson Haddix
Esperanza Rising - by Pam Muñoz Ryan *
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - by J.R.R.Tolkien
Balto of the Blue Dawn - by Mary Pope Osborne
Saturdays at Sea - by Jessica Day George
Silent to the Bone - by E.L.Konigsburg (My least favorite book)
Snow in Summer - by Jane Yolen
National Velvet - by Enid Bagnold
Peter Pan - by J.M.Barrie
2010: Odyssey Two - by Arthur C. Clarke
Cloaked - by Rachel Kovaciny
The Princess Bride - by S. Morgenstern (aka William Goldman)
Summer of the Monkeys - by Wilson Rawls *
The Tiger Rising - by Kate DiCamillo
Pegasus - by Robin McKinley *
Five Enchanted Roses - by Kaycee Browning, Savannah Jezowski, Jenelle Schmidt, Dorian Tsukioka, and Hayden Wand.
Twelfth Night - by William Shakespeare
The Hound of the Baskervilles - by Arthur Conan Doyle
Swordbird - by Nancy Yi Fan
Wonderland Creek - by Lynn Austen *
Five Magic Spindles - by Rachel Kovaciny, Kat Medill, Grace Mullins, Michelle Pennington, and Ashley Stangl.
January Joker - by Ron Roy
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (mini review)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Headless Cupid - by Zilpha Keatley Snider
Throne of Grace - by Cecily Wolfe
Crown of Beauty - by Cecily Wolfe
The Valley of Fear - by Arthur Conan Doyle
His Last Bow - by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes - by Arthur Conan Doyle

Total: 65

Rereads:

Howl's Moving Castle - by Diana Wynne Jones

The Pink Motel - by Carol Ryrie Brink
Pride & Prejudice - by Jane Austen. (I reread this for Amber's Pride & Prejudice read-along!)

Total: 3

My 10 Favorite New to Me (No specific order):

1. Pride & Prejudice - by Jane Austen

2. Peter Pan - by J.M.Barrie

3. The Sherlock Holmes Canon - by Arthur Conan Doyle

4. The Lord of the Rings - by J.R.R.Tolkien

5. Summer of the Monkeys - by Wilson Rawls

6. The Q - by Beth Brower
7. Rooglewood Press's contest books:
Five Glass Slippers,

Five Enchanted Roses,

and Five Magic Spindles.

8. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew - by Margaret Sidney

9. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - by Howard Pyle

10. Cloaked - by Rachel Kovaciny

I just realized that five was my lucky number this year.

Thank you so much to Heidi for hosting the Adventure of Reading Challenge this year!!

This year I am going to join the Mount TBR Challenge 2018 hosted by My Reader's Block!
I am going for: Pike's Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s.

Thank you for reading about my book craziness!

MovieCritic

Adventure of Reading Challenge ~ Update 4

Hello!
I am here for my fourth and last update for Heidi's 2017 Adventure of Reading Challenge! Here are update one, update two, and update three.

Thank you so much for hosting this challenge, Heidi! I probably wouldn't have read them otherwise!

Wonderland Creek - by Lynn Austen:

"It's the little things that make all the difference in the world. The kind words we speak and the simple things we do for people."
Alice Grace Ripley loves to read. After getting a lot of books to donate to a library in Acorn, she decides to bring them down there herself! Alice finds several things she wasn't expecting, one of them being the fact that the librarian gets severally hurt and she has to take over. Most people don't even read, but they love the books.There is a big secret, but no one will tell her! What with gardening, cooking, and doing the librarian's will, she learns that maybe the world is better than a book, and she should get into her own story.
'It was just a pile of old wood and scraps of metal, but in their imagination it was a schooner that could sail all over the world searching for buried treasure.'
Genre: Historical Fiction, Period Drama.
"...Will it take her very long to get here?' 'Well, it depends on which horse she's riding--"
Characters: 10, there are so many and they are all so different!
'It seemed that I had baked myself into a jam tart, as Mother would say.'
My favorite:
Alice, she and I are very alike, and this is so true: 'Sometimes I hated being a fair-skinned blond. People could read my distress like a thermometer as the color filled or drained from my cheeks.'
Miss Lillie, she is amazing.
Words: 9, there are a few bad words.
'She may as well have been speaking another language. I was so frightened that her words of advice fell all around me without sinking in, as forgotten as raindrops in the creek.'
Quotes: 10, seriously, this is my favorite! It describes me sssoooo well!
"'...I didn't cause a scene. I don't know why the usher asked us to leave.'
'Gordon said it was because you started talking very loudly in the middle of the movie, saying it wasn't at all like the originally book...Gordon is still mad because he didn't get to see how the film ended.'
'He didn't need to see the end. I told him how the book ended and it was so much better than the movie. They even changed the hero's motivation. Can you imagine? That movie was such a travesty that I couldn't help getting upset.'"
Storyline: 6, there is death, blood, kissing, suggestive, smoking, drinking.
'Fighting injustice seemed to carry a very high price tag.'
It has references to these books, which I thought was pretty cool:
Sherlock Holmes, Alice in Wonderland, Macbeth.
Good For: Anyone who likes to read.
"Weeds are just like hatred and greed, you know. If you ain't careful, they'll choke all the love and compassion out of a person."
Overall Score: 8.
"That's absurd,' I said with a little laugh. 'Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone can breathe too much."

(Well, that was definitely a mini review ;) )

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows:

(This will actually just be a mini review, because I want to do a longer post on it in the future. In other words I forgot where I put my notes, and as there is maybe a movie of it coming out, I want to compare it to that.)
It's post World War II, and Juliet gets a letter from a Dawsy Adams, a man on the island Guernsey who happens to own one of Juliet's old books. A correspondence ensures, and Juliet gets to know the people of Guernsey and their literary society.
Genre: Historical Fiction,
Characters: 7, two of the characters are mentioned as being homosexual, so that kind of put me a little bit against the book, because I don't support that.
My favorite:
Isola & Kit.
(They are the best!!)
Words: 6, there are a few bad words, and swearing.
Storyline: 7, suggestive stuff happened, smoking, discussion unpleasing, name calling, bathroom, and mention of drinking.
Good For: History fans.
Overall Score: 7!


The Headless Cupid - by Zilpha Keatley Snider:

(Also know as, A Witch in the Family.)
'Walking through the door was like walking out of a bright morning into midnight.'
The Stanley kids can't wait to meet Molly's daughter, Amanda, who will become their new sister! But when she comes, they find she studies witchcraft. Because they don't have anything else to do, David, Blair, Janie, and Tesser want to do it too! Strange things start happening and they wonder if it really is, or is Amanda some how making it all up?
'He was remembering that she believed in good omens, like rainbows and church bells.'
Genre: Middle Grade Fiction.
Characters: 8,
My favorite:
Janie & Tesser.
'Janie always asked questions faster than anybody could possibly answer them.'
Words: 9, only one bad word.
'The sun was warm on the steps, but the air still had the night-freshened cool of summer mornings.'
Quotes: 9, '...he started having that good, slightly excited feeling that a library always gave him.'

(SPOILERS from now on.)

NOTE: I definitely don't believe in witchcraft or do I support it but it is all fake in this book. Amanda was making it up to get attention and to make her mom mad. There are some scenes where they are doing "ceremonies" that I don't approve of, but it was a made up.

'David had never heard of anybody taking up stocking robbery as a career.'

Storyline: 7, Stealing, divorce, and witchcraft though it is just to get attention.
Good For: Those who are going through a hard time, those who have experienced change.
Overall Score: 8.
'He kept it closed because he had a feeling that if he started talking he'd say a lot.'


So, I read 9 1/2 out of 11! I really was going to read Orange & Green, but I read all these other ones first, so when I went to get it out from the library they said I could get it on the first of the year! Oh well. And, I admit I was a little scared of reading Frankenstein, but I did read most of it, and I will finish it in 2018!

Thank you so much for hosting this, Heidi! It was very fun!!

MovieCritic

Book vs. Movie Review: Summer of the Monkeys

Hello!
Here I am for my third update for Heidi's Adventure of Reading Challenge! Here are update one, and update two.

I actually cheated here, I watched the movie first. But, which is better? Read on.

My guarantee: On ALL of my reviews there are NO spoilers unless it says so.

'"That's the place," Grandpa said. "I don't care what kind of a problem a man has, he can always find the answer to it in a library."'

Summer of the Monkeys - by Wilson Rawls:

'I got mixed up with a bunch of monkeys, and all of my happiness flew right out the window.'
Jay Berry is living with a poor family. His twin sister, Daisy, has a crippled leg and can't do all the things he wants to do. When he hears of a reward for 30 escaped monkey from a circus, he decides he wants to catch those monkeys and get the pony and gun he has always wanted. It's a good idea, but those monkeys don't want to be caught.
"Daisy says that the Old Man of the Mountains is taking care of everything in the hills. If he is, he must have worked a long time in painting that picture."
Note: Okay, before I get started on the review, can we just appreciate to beauty of this book? While the movie took out some of the "iffy" parts, they also took some of the good. This book is so amazingly beautiful, I cried at parts.
'It made me feel like I had just been born and had to live my whole life again.'
Genre: Fiction, (I'm not really sure, can anyone else come up with something better?)
'Even the little speckled tree frogs, the katydids, and the crickets were chipping in with their nickel's worth of welcome music.'
Characters: 10, they are so amazing, the lessons they learn and how they change... wonderful!
My favorites:
Daisy: She is amazing (sorry I keep repeating, but my vocabulary is low today), she is so kind. 'Her blue eyes were as bright as the morning star and a warm smile tugged at her lips.'
Jay Berry: I love how his character progresses.
Grandpa: I never got to meet either of my grandpas, but I feel like he would have been like my grandpa on my mom's side.
'Grandpa was having a hard time holding back a good laugh.'
Words: 9, uh, there is sort of a bad one. (I wrote this in my notes but don't remember what it means. Sorry).
'If you closed your eyes, and filled your lungs full of that sweet-smelling stuff, your head would get as light as a hummingbird's feather and feel as if it was going to sail away by itself.'
Quotes: 10!!! Read this, please:

'"There is one thing I know. All little children who are crippled can see things and hear things that you and I can never see or hear. I think the Lord has something to do with this. It could be His way of showing them mercy."

"That's what Mama told me," I said. "She thinks that the Old Man of the Mountains is a spirit, do you think he's a spirit?"

Papa thought for a second. "Your mother could be right," he said. "What Daisy is seeing could be the spirit of Christ. Lots of people have seen His spirit; especially, those in pain or deep trouble. It happens every day somewhere in the world."'

Isn't it so beautiful?
Storyline: 8, there is drinking(but it shows it is bad), smoking, and other blah. But, it is so incredibly wonderful.
'"If a fellow didn't dream and have hope," he said, "life would sure be miserable."'
Good For: Those who are different, those who want something, EVERYONE.
'Thousands of lightning bugs were dancing a flickering rhythm all around us.'
Overall Score: 9.5
'It was so still in our kitchen you could have heard a dream walking.'

VS.

Summer of the Monkeys (1998):

Based on the book by Wilson Rawls:
"I thought I heard you say you saw a monkey in the river bottoms."
Jay Berry dreams of getting a pony named Annie. Having to watch his sister, and help his father, he doesn't think he will have enough time to work at his grandpa's store. Hearing about four escaped monkeys and the reward for them, he sets off to the bottoms to trap them before Toby, the bully, does.
"You're only digging yourself a deeper hole."

Genre: Adventure drama.

Length: approx. 101 minutes.
Costumes: 8, they work well for the time frame. Those monkey's costumes are so fancy!

Script: 10, no bad words!
"I bet they did, that's why they print those ya know."

Crew:
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Produced by: David Doerksen
Written by:
Wilson Rawls (book)
Greg Taylor
Jim Strain
Starring: 7
Corey Sevier as Jay Berry Lee.

"What's it feel like?"

"Like I'm flying."

Katie Stuart as Daisy, she was a good actress for Daisy, but she didn't look like Daisy. She was too young and her eyes were brown.

Michael Ontkean as John Lee.

Leslie Hope as Sarah Lee.

Wilford Brimley as Grandpa.

Don Francks as Mr. Hatcher.
Music: 7.
Music by: George Blondheim
Cinematography: Michael Storey
Quotes: 7, they took out the really great ones from the book.
"You just grew ten feet tall in my eyes."

Storyline: 6, there is death, and drinking.
They did a lot of things to it, but the things that stick out are:
They cut:
Monkeys! In the book there are 30 monkeys, in this movie there are 4!
And they added:
Mr. Hatcher (who is he?)

Good For: Families, People who feel different.
Overall Score: 7

The book wins!


Thanks again to Heidi for hosting this challenge!! (And, on my sidebar, that game is still open!)

MovieCritic

Adventure of Reading Challenge ~ Update 2

Hello!
Here is my second update/book reviews, for Heidi's Adventure of Reading Challenge! My first update was my review of The Jungle Book, here.

Thank you, Heidi for hosting this challenge! I had no idea what these books were about at first, and I had a lot of fun reading them!

My guarantee: On ALL of my reviews there are NO spoilers unless it says so.

1.

Dave at Night - by Gail Carson Levine

"Tell for you your fortune?"
When Dave's father dies, his step-mother sends him to an "orphanage." The teachers, and everybody are not nice, only the art teacher, Mr. Hillinger, is. Dave learns about art, music, and the world. With the help of the other boys he is able to get out at night, and he meets some interesting people.
'If I could have painted it, I would have used bright colors and straight lines.'
Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction.
'I was going to get caught because of The Song That Went On Forever.'
Characters: 8.
'"Where do you live?" I said.
"Why? You're planning to send me flowers?"'
My favorites:
Dave, Irma Lee, Solly, Mike.
'Mosquitoes are small but they bite.'
Words: 8, only a few bad words. Reference to Through the Looking Glass ("Twas brilig...") and Robin Hood.
'The music didn't know about locks and iron fences---it would blast through anything.'
Storyline: 6, there is a mention of bathrooms, fights, smoking, sneaking, and nude statues.
'The music got inside me. It felt like my bones were humming and bouncing along.'
Good For: Those who feel alone and scared.
Overall Score: 7.5
"Your son, Dave the rascal. Dave the gesture artist."

2.

Liesl & Po - by Lauren Oliver

"That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view."
Liesl's father has died, and her stepmother has locked her in her attic room. She meets Po, a ghost who loves her drawings. After talking to him she decides that she wants to put her father's ashes in her old home, with her mother is buried.
Will is an apprentice who has gotten two boxes mixed up.
Together they learn what it really means to die, what is on 'the other side', and how beautiful it is to live.
Genre: Fantasy.
Characters: 9, they are very well written.
My favorites: Liesl (she loves to read!), Will "The boy should really have a hat.", and Mo.
Words: 8, very good! Only one bad word.
'As ridiculous and deluded as a frog trying to turn into a flower petal.'
Storyline: 5, there is a description of body parts, death, ashes, and ghosts. There is magic.
Good For: People who are mourning those who have died, those who are afraid of death.
Overall Score: 7!
"Life is a very funny business indeed."


3.

Esperanza Rising - by Pam Muñoz Ryan

"No hay rosa sin espinas. There is no rose without thorns."
Esperanza is a happy girl living in Mexico. But,  disaster after disaster strikes her family, and she and some friends must escape to America for a better life. After being the daughter in a rich family, having to work is not easy. Working conditions are bad, and there are angry strikers who could hurt you. She has to learn to be kind, stay strong, and continue to hope (esperanza).
'It was quiet and peaceful here, the sweet silence broken only by the swish of dried grass from the wind.'
Genre: Historical Fiction.
Characters: 8.
'He seemed as happy as Esperanza was irritable.'
My favorite: Esperanza, Miguel, Isabel, Hortensia.
'The words stopped her as if someone had slapped her in the face."
Words: 9, I love how there is so much Spanish, and that each chapter begins with food, it measures the time by the seasons.
'It looked as if someone had taken a giant comb, dipped it in black paint, and gently swirled it across a huge canvas.'
Storyline: 7, there is mention of bathroom, blood, death, fire, and deviousness.
'Sometimes she felt as if she lived in a cocoon, protected from much of the indignation.'
Good For: Those who have to change, people who have lost someone.
Overall Score: 8!
"I think my heart is dancing!"

4.

Pegasus - by Robin McKinley

"'Sculptors don't sculpt, you know,' Ebon said. 'They set things free.'"
On a royal's twelfth birthday they get bound to a pegasi, but on Princess Sylvi's something happens that is different then all the other bindings. A connection is formed that leads to an amazing friendship, but magicians and others are scared, and will do anything to stop it.
"'There's always a next time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about.'"
Genre: Fantasy.
'They moved, gently, gracefully, so that their heads were toward her as she passed them: cream and gold, brown and copper.'
Characters: 8.
'There was something almost miraculous about this bead; it shone like a tiny moon.'
My favorite: Sylvi, Ebon ("...royal pain in the pinfeathers."), Hirishy, Glarfin.
'Imagine learning to swim by being thrown into a lake in perfect darkness, never having seen water before.'
Words: 6, there are a few bad words.
'You could never quite say what you wanted to; your mind seemed to slip from you, like a sled on a snow-slope, and the language seemed to writhe away from you like a small wild animal you had inadvertently caught: let it go, or it might bite.'
Storyline: 5, there are some suggestive stuff, mention of bathrooms, magic, taking bath, "gods". It is confusing at first.
"Your history is only what someone remembers or has written down."
Good For: Those who feel different.
Overall Score: 6.
'It was like...the warmth of summer with the endless skies of a cold winter day; the bursting greens of spring and the rich russet-gold of autumn.'

(These were supposed to be mini reviews. Oh well, I got excited.)

So, some exciting news. I have finished my first book. On Monday I wrote THE END. It was fabulous. We are working on editing now!

And, all the way back in JUNE, I put out this game and only one person has guessed so far, so if you are interested, check it out!

Thanks again to Heidi!!

MovieCritic

Book vs. Movie Review: The Jungle Book

Hello Everybody!
Today 50 years ago the Disney movie The Jungle Book came out! (Not the 2016 version, the 1967 cartoon!) Because of that I will do a review of both the book and the movie!

My guarantee: On ALL of my reviews there are NO spoilers unless it says so. 

The Jungle Book - by Rudyard Kipling

"We be of one blood, ye and I."
A man cub is found in the jungle, and the animals decide to take care of him instead of eating it. Mowgli and his friends come upon many, many adventures in the jungle of India.
"What is has been. What will be is no more than a forgotten year striking backwards."
Genre: Adventure.
Characters: 8, there are quite a few good ones!
My favorite: Bagerra, Kaa.
"The English, they had been told, were a perfectly mad people, who would not let honest farmers kill witches in peace."
Words: 8, Very good! But, there are a few places were there is name calling.
"Last year's nuts are this year's black earth."
Storyline: 5, there is death, gruesome things, people mentioned as being nude, smoking, and blood.
"My heart is heavy with the things that I do not understand."
Good For: Animal lovers, People who feel they are different.
Overall Score: 7!
"He turned on his heel and walked away with the Lone Wolf, and as he looked up at the stars he felt happy."

VS.

The Jungle Book (1967):

Based on the book by Rudyard Kipling:
"Many strange legends are told about the jungles of India..."
Being abandoned in the forest, Mowgli grows up with the animals, learning the animal ways. All is well until Shere Khan comes, and wants Mowgli to be no more.

Length: 78 minutes.
Genre: Adventure
Costumes: 6, nothing great, and Mowgli doesn't wear much. But, I do like this:

Script: 8,
"Don't spend your time lookin' around for something that can't be found."

Crew:
Directed by: Wolfgang Reitherman
Produced by: Walt Disney
Screenplay by:
Larry Clemmons
Ralph Wright
Ken Anderson
Vance Gerry
Floyd Norman
Bill Peet
Starring:
Bruce Reitherman as Mowgli.
Phil Harris as Baloo.

Sterling Holloway as Kaa.
George Sanders as Shere Khan.

Sebastian Cabot as Bagheera/Narrator.

Louis Prima as King Louie.
J. Pat O'Malley as Colonel Hathi/Buzzie the Vulture.
Verna Felton as Winifred.
Clint Howard as Junior.
Chad Stuart as Flaps the Vulture.
Lord Tim Hudson as Dizzie the Vulture.
John Abbott as Akela the Indian wolf.
Ben Wright as Rama the Father Wolf.
This really is a 5-star cast!
But, wow, the characters are quite mixed up. The thing with Walt Disney films, is that they are so great you love them, all the characters are classics. Even though Baloo should be like Bagheera, and Bagheera should be like Baloo, and Kaa is a good guy.

Music: 10! Who doesn't love "The Bare Necessities"!? And, "I want to be like you"?!

Music by:
George Bruns
Terry Gilkyson
Richard M. Sherman
Robert B. Sherman
Quotes: 9, So, my favorite quote is so long that I am just going to put a video of it:

Notes: This has some recycled scenes from Winnie the Pooh!

Storyline: 5, the storyline has nothing bad in it, it just is really not a lot like the book. But as I said, you can't say anything bad about it because it is a classic!

Good For: Anybody who feels different, Anybody who has to do a hard thing.

Overall Score: 7!

It's a tie!

I read The Jungle Book, for Heidi's Adventure of Reading Challenge! Go check it out! One done so far on my list! I have read others, but I haven't gotten to review them yet!

Thanks for reading!

MovieCritic

Adventure of Reading Challenge!

Hello!
I am going to participate in Heidi's Adventure of Reading Challenge! It will be very fun! Go check out the rules HERE! I am going to try the Wrangler level, we will see how it goes!

Wrangler: 10-12 books
Dave at Night - by Gail Carson Levine

Esperanza Rising - by Pam Munoz Ryan

 

Frankenstein - by Mary Shelley

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

 

The Headless Cupid - by Zilpha Keatly Snider

The Jungle Book - by Rudyard Kipling

 

Liesl and Po - by Lauren Oliver

Orange & Green - by G.A. Henty

Pegasus - by Robin McKinley

Summer of the Monkeys - by Wilson Rawls

 

Wonderland Creek - by Lynn Austin

Well, there is my list! I hope to read all of these by the end of the year!
Thank you so much for hosting this Heidi!

MovieCritic