FINISHED:
Westerfeld, Scott. (2017). Horizon [Horizon Book 1]. New York: Scholastic.

[A group of kids find themselves stranded on a strange "island" after their plane crashes, with all of the other passengers having mysteriously disappeared.  They find a strange device that can mess with gravity, are attacked by vines and odd birds, and can't figure out where they are... there are two moons in the sky... could it be they are on a different planet?  Just looked at his blog, and Westerfeld describes it as LOST meets HATCHET meets LORD OF THE FLIES, which is kind of accurate.  For some reason, it just didn't completely click with me... and it should have been right up my alley.]

STARTED:
Crowder, Melanie. (2017). Three Pennies. New York: Atheneum/Simon & Schuster.

[Looking forward to this one!  AUDACITY and A NEARER MOON were two of my absolute favorites from 2015.]

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FINISHED:
Wegelius, Jakob. (2017). The Murderer's Ape. New York: Delacorte/Random House.

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STARTED:
Yoon, Nicola. (2016). The Sun is Also a Star. New York: Delacorte/Random House.

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FINISHED:
Weatherford, Carole Boston. (2016). You Can Fly:  The Tuskegee Airmen. New York: Atheneum/Simon & Schuster.

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STARTED:
Lane, Kathleen. (2016). The Best Worst Thing. New York: Little, Brown.

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FINISHED: 
Cole, Henry. (2016). The Somewhat True Adventures of Sammy Shine. Atlanta: Peachtree.

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STARTED:
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. (2015). Between the World and Me. New York: Spiegel & Grau.

[Recommended by Matt de la Peña and Allie Jane Bruce.  I mean, with endorsements by these two, it must be a slam-dunk winner.]

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FINISHED:
Burns, John. (2005). The many adventures of Pengey Penguin. San Francisco: San Francisco Story Works.

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STARTED:
Hunter, Erin. (2012). Survivors: the empty city. New York: HarperCollins.

[The Erin Hunter machine tries its hand at dogs (I kind of enjoy the bear ones...).]

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FINISHED:
Gantos, Jack. (2011). Dead end in Norvelt. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 

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STARTED:
Jacques, Brian. (2005). High Rhulain. New York: Philomel/Penguin.

[I've been WAY overdue for another Redwall book (#18?)...]

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FINISHED:
Reeve, Philip. (2011). Web of air. New York: Scholastic.




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Nolan, Han. (2010). Crazy. Boston: Harcourt.

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STARTED:
Cline, Ernest. (2011). Ready Player One. New York: Crown.

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FINISHED:

King, Stephen. (1991). Four past midnight: The Langoliers. New York: Signet/Penguin.

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STARTED:
Buzbee, Lewis. (2008). Steinbeck's ghost. New York: Feiwel and Friends/MacMillan.

[Heard great things, plus I believe that it won an award - maybe something to do with Northern California authors?]

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