STARTED & FINISHED:
Dahl, Roald. (1982).  The BFG.  New York: Puffin/Penguin.

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FINISHED:
Mull, Brandon. (2012). Seeds of rebellion (Beyonders #2). New York: Aladdin.

[Well, this one suffered a bit from the "middle book" syndrome. It really seemed like not a whole lot happened in this one, even though it was almost 500 pages and took me way too long to read. There was a bunch of stuff presented that it seemed was set up for the final installment in the trilogy, and there were WAY too many characters and places (some of which weren't even included on the map at the beginning) to keep track of. Jason took a bit of a backseat and didn't really have a whole lot to do in this one, though the Rachel character was definitely given a greater role and it would appear that the powers she is developing will play a large part in Maldor's downfall. I'm still a Brandon Mull fan and eagerly await not only the conclusion to this series, but all other works from him in the future.]

STARTED:
Hall, Teri. (2011). Away. New York: Dial/Penguin.

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FINISHED:
Bulla, Clyde Robert. (1962). The ring and the fire. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell.

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STARTED:
Hardinge, Frances. (2006). Fly by night. New York: HarperCollins.

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FINISHED:
Mull, Brandon. (2009). Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary. Salt Lake City, UT: Shadow Mountain.

[SOOOOO good.]

STARTED:
Jacques, Brian. (2004). Rakkety Tam. New York: Firebird/Penguin.

[#17...]

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FINISHED:
Mull, Brandon. (2008). Fablehaven: Grip of the shadow plague. New York: Aladdin/Simon & Schuster.

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STARTED:
Pfeffer, Susan Beth. (2010). this world we live in. New York: Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin.

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FINISHED:

Gaiman, Neil. (2009). Odd and the frost giants. New York: HarperCollins.

[Don't really have much to say about this one - honestly, I already couldn't really tell you what happened in it. Very slight and a bit rushed and muddled.]

STARTED:
Stewart, Trenton Lee. (2009). The Mysterious Benedict Society and the prisoner's dilemma. New York: Megan Tingley Books/Little, Brown and Company.

[LOVE this series!]

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FINISHED:

DiTerlizzi, Tony, and Black, Holly. (2008). Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles: A giant problem. New York: Simon & Schuster.

[Finished this one in no time at all. Certainly not at all as compelling as the original series, this second installment in this trilogy deals with the kids trying to keep the giants that they have woken up from destroying their town. In the end, they record some mermaid songs and lure the giants out to sea. Something tells me that this won't keep them down... and it looks like the kids from the original series are back in town...]

STARTED:
Hiaasen, Carl. (2009). Scat. New York: Knopf.

[Believe it or not, I've not read any of his other books... though I did WATCH the movie version of Hoot... This one I'm reading to see if I think that it should be included on the ACL Distinguished Books list for 2009.]

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