ABANDONED TEMPORARILY:
Sepahban, Lois. (2016). Paper Wishes. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.

[Spilled a glass of water on this one...  until it dries out, I've moved on to...]

STARTED:
Cushman, Karen. (2015). Grayling's Song. New York: Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

[.]

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FINISHED:
Bechdel, Alison. (2006). Fun Home: a Family Tragicomic. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

[By the way, the link above is to a Rolling Stone article about the musical... which we saw in New York right after ALA Boston.]

STARTED:
Sepahban, Lois. (2016). Paper Wishes. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.

[Back to reviewing for ACL!]

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ABANDONED:
Springstubb, Tricia. (2010). What Happened on Fox Street. New York: Balzer + Bray.

[Tricia Springstubb, I'm SO sorry that I couldn't finish this one!  I picked it up because (I think I'm allowed to say) MOONPENNY ISLAND was far-and-away one of my favorite books of 2015.  This one... just wasn't quite going anywhere for me.  I promise to try again some other time!]

STARTED:
Bechdel, Alison. (2006). Fun Home: a Family Tragicomic. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

[.]

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FINISHED:
Kinney, Jeff. (2015). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School. New York: Amulet/Abrams.

[Actually, this one was kind of funny.  Definitely funnier than the last couple.]

STARTED:
Springstubb, Tricia. (2010). What Happened on Fox Street. New York: Balzer + Bray.

[.]

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FINISHED:
Pennypacker, Sara. (2016).  Pax.  New York: Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins.

[.]

STARTED:
Kinney, Jeff. (2015). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School. New York: Amulet/Abrams.

[.]

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Well, my Newbery year is over...  and I'm going through a bit of a mourning period...  BUT, this means that I can now keep track of all that I'm reading here again!  MAYBE, in 25 or 50 years, I'll be able to publish my spreadsheet(s) where I kept track of the multitude of books I read in 2015.

STARTED & FINISHED:
Oppel, Kenneth. (2015).  The Nest.  New York: Simon & Schuster.

[.]

STARTED:
Pennypacker, Sara. (2016).  Pax.  New York: Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins.

[Got an ARC of this (in a spiffy box) at ALA Midwinter.]

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2016 Newbery Award Winner

 

 

de la Pena, Matt. (2015).  Last Stop on Market Street.  New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin.

 

[And I helped to choose it!]

 

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