FINISHED:
DiTerlizzi, Tony. (2010). The search for WondLa. New York: Simon & Schuster.

[LOVED LOVED LOVED.]

STARTED:
Lore, Pittacus. (2010). I am Number Four. New York: HarperCollins.

[Reviewing for ACL.]

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FINISHED:
Balliett, Blue. (2010). The danger box. New York: Scholastic.

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STARTED:
DiTerlizzi, Tony. (2010). The search for WondLa. New York: Simon & Schuster.

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STARTED & FINISHED:
Riddell, Chris. (2008). Ottoline and the yellow cat. New York: HarperCollins.

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FINISHED:
Baccalario, Pierdomenico. [trans. Leah D. Janeczko]. (2010). Star of stone (Century quartet: Book 2). New York: Random House.

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STARTED:Balliett, Blue. (2010). The danger box. New York: Scholastic.

[Reading to see if I deem it worthy of appearing on the 2010 ACL Distinguished List - plus, I really liked her earlier books and have been awaiting this one...]

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FINISHED:
Beil, Michael. (2010). The Red Blazer Girls: The vanishing violin. New York: Knopf.

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STARTED:
Baccalario, Pierdomenico. [trans. Leah D. Janeczko]. (2010). Star of stone (Century quartet: Book 2). New York: Random House.

[For some reason, I like this guy (fun mysteries? exotic and vivid locales? the inclusion of dossiers containing photos and other realia?) - so far I'm not quite sure where all of this is leading, but I'm still along for the ride.]

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FINISHED:
Jinks, Catherine. (2010). The genius wars. New York: Harcourt.

[Review to come:

(Reviewed from Advance Reading Copy) : Cadel is settling in with his new foster parents (his former caseworker and the cop who helped suss out the evil genius who would stop at nothing to see Cadel dead) and taking computing classes at university thinking that life is back to normal when Prosper English, once thought to be Cadel’s father, shows up on a number of surveilance cameras around town. Soon, Cadel’s friend’s electric wheelchair is out of her control and tumbles down some stairs, traffic lights are messed with causing another of Cadel’s friends to be involved in a traffic accident, and a commuter bus’s GPS link up system is hijacked causing the bus to slam into Cadel’s home. Clearly, no one Cadel knows is safe and all forms of technology surrounding Cadel are subject to possible corruption. This concluding volume in Jinks’s Evil Genius trilogy acts as a kind of commentary on our dependence on computers, the complete interconnectivity of electronic systems, and the ease with which computers can be hacked and used to spy and/or cause harm. This is a compelling read with some fun, paranoid suspense that is HEAVY on computer jargon and technical descriptions making it likely best enjoyed by those who have a solid knowledge of computers and computer systems.]

STARTED:
Beil, Michael. (2010). The Red Blazer Girls: The vanishing violin. New York: Knopf.

[Thought the first one was FUN FUN FUN...]

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