FINISHED:
Kibuishi, Kazu. (2018). Supernova [Amulet #8]. New York: Graphix.Scholastic.

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STARTED:
Ukazu, Ngozi. (2018). Check Please! Book 1: Hockey. New York: First Second/Roaring Brook.

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FINISHED: 
Springstubb, Tricia. (2018). Cody and the Heart of a Champion. Somerville, MA: Candlewick.

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STARTED & FINISHED:
Avi. (2018). The Button War. Somerville, MA: Candlewick.

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STARTED & FINISHED:
Sell, Chad. (2018). The Cardboard Kingdom. New York: Knopf/Penguin Random House. 

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STARTED & FINISHED:
Tanaka, Shelley. (2018). The Breadwinner: a Graphic Novel. Toronto: Groundwood Books. 

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STARTED:
Connor, Leslie. (2018). The Truth As Told by Mason Buttle. New York: Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins.

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FINISHED:
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. (2017). The War I Finally Won. New York: Dial/Penguin.

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STARTED:
Jamieson, Victoria. (2017). All's Faire in Middle School. New York: Dial/Penguin.

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FINISHED:
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. (2015). The War That Saved My Life. New York: Dial/Penguin.

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STARTED:
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. (2017). The War I Finally Won. New York: Dial/Penguin.

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FINISHED:
Zusak, Markus. (2005). The Book Thief. New York: Knopf.

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STARTED:
Oh, Ellen [Ed.]. (2017). Flying Lessons & Other Stories. New York: Crown/Random House.

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FINISHED: 
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. (2016). Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet [Book One]. New York: Marvel Worldwide.

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STARTED:
Nesbet, Anne. (2016). Cloud and Wallfish. Somerville, MA: Candlewick.

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FINISHED:
Gottesfeld, Jeff. (2016). The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank's Window. New York: Knopf. 

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STARTED:
Ogburn, Jacqueline K. (2017). The Unicorn in the Barn. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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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:
Springstubb, Tricia. (2016). Every Single Second. New York: Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins.

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STARTED:
Connor, Leslie. (2016). All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook. New York: Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins.

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FINISHED: 
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. (2015). The War That Saved My Life. New York: Dial/Penguin.

[As with ECHO below, I love that I now have a chance to list this one on the blog.  Obviously, by virtue of the fact that it was (SO DESERVING OF) one of our Newbery Honors, it is a book that I have read A NUMBER of times.  AND, I know that I will read it a BUNCH more times over the years.  TRULY TRULY one of my favorites last year... and definitely one of my favorites of all time.]

STARTED:
Jamieson, Victoria. (2015). Roller Girl. New York: Penguin.

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FINISHED:

Ryan, Pam Muñoz. (2015).  Echo.  New York: Scholastic.

[SO PLEASED to now be able to list this one here on the blog.  Obviously, as it was on of our Newbery Honor books, it's one that I read A NUMBER of times last year.  Also cool to now read it to just... read it.  No more note-taking and intense scrutiny.  Just able to read it for the FANTASTIC piece of fiction that it is.]

STARTED:
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. (2015). The War That Saved My Life. New York: Dial/Penguin.

[Re-reading before meeting the author at the ALA Annual conference.]

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

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STARTED:
Martel, Yann. (2016). The High Mountains of Portugal. New York: Spiegel & Grau/Penguin Random House.

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

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

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FINISHED:
De Angeli, Marguerite. (1949). The door in the wall. New York: Laurel-Leaf/Random House.

[Not my favorite Newbery winner, but better than I expected it would be.  For whatever reason, I thought that this was a fantasy title (a la Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain]...


STARTED:
Feldman, Jody. (2014). The Gollywhopper Games:  The new champion. New York: Greenwillow/HarperCollins.

[LOVED the first one!  SO happy to see that there is now a sequel!!]


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FINISHED: 
Brown, Skila. (2014). Caminar. Somerville, MA: Candlewick.

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STARTED: 
Raskin, Ellen. (1978). The Westing game. New York: Puffin/Penguin.

[Continuing to read some of the previous Newbery winners.  I remember starting this one a number of years ago, but, for some reason, got thoroughly confused and gave it up...]


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FINISHED:
Setterington, Ken. (2013). Branded by the pink triangle. Toronto, ON: Second Story.


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STARTED:
Mull, Brandon. (2014). Sky Raiders (Five kingdoms #1). New York: Aladdin/Simon & Schuster.


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FINISHED:
Lynch, Chris. (2013). Casualties of war (Vietnam #4). New York: Scholastic.


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There was at least one other book (maybe two!) that I read between these two, but...  it must not have been very good because I can't remember what the heck it was...

STARTED:
Aronson, Marc, and Marina Budhos. (2010). Sugar changed the world: A story of magic, spice, slavery, freedom, and science. Boston, MA: Clarion/Houghton Mifflin.


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FINISHED:
McMann, Lisa. (2012). Island of silence (Unwanteds: Book 2). New York: Aladdin.


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STARTED:
Choldenko, Gennifer. (2013). Al Capone does my homework. New York: Dial/Penguin.


[Reading to see if it's as good as the first two...]


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FINISHED:
Boulle, Pierre. (1983). The whale of the Victoria Cross. New York: Vanguard Press.


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STARTED:
Grabenstein, Chris. (2013). Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's library. New York: Random House.


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