FINISHED:

Babbitt, Natalie. (1969). Search for delicious. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux.

[Certainly, not as fantastically engaging as I found Tuck Everlasting to be, but this woman has a gift for storytelling. After an argument at the king's castle over what the definition in a new dictionary should be for the word "delicious", young scribe Gaylen is sent out into the kingdom to poll all the citizens as to what they deem to be the most delicious thing to them. Along the way, Gaylen's efforts are thwarted by a member of the king's court who wants to use the unrest as a tool by which to throw the kingdom into war and usurp the king's throne. Little men living in trees, whistles, and a mermaid that has lost her doll round out this fairy tale with a political edge.]

STARTED:
Thompson, Kate. (2005/2007). The new policeman. New York: Greenwillow/HarperCollins.

[Won awards in Britain - have had my eye on it for awhile, and SFPL finally got some copies...]

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