FINISHED:
Crowder, Melanie. (2013). Parched. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.


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STARTED:
Rowell, Rainbow. (2013). Eleanor & Park. New York: St. Martin's Griffin.


[Heard SO many wonderful things about this one.  And it takes place in 1986... when I was a teenager who listened to all of the bands that Park likes...]


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


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STARTED:
Crowder, Melanie. (2013). Parched. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.


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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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FINISHED:
Larsen, Reif. (2009). The selected works of T.S. Spivet. New York: Penguin.


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


[Patron recommendation...]


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FINISHED:
Nix, Garth, and Sean Williams. (2013). The mystery (Troubletwisters #3). New York: Scholastic.


[After an old town recluse dies in the castle near their grandmother’s house, Jaide and Jack help a local bookseller with cataloguing an extensive book collection there, and the twins discover that the castle may be the location of the “Card of Translocation”, whose purpose is unknown but which their father has instructed them to find.  In addition, the two are led to believe that their father, who’s supposed to stay away from them so that he doesn’t drive their “Gifts” wild, may be involved in the death of the recluse, and their grandmother, a Warden of Portland who is responsible for protecting the world from “The Evil”, ends up in the hospital after being mysteriously driven off the road.   The proceedings are swiftly set into motion in this third installment of the series, and readers who may not have read (or remember) the first two books are brought up to date with some early interspersed catch-ups.  Though most of the action is saved until the last few chapters, fans of the previous installments will find plenty to enjoy along the way, with the cast of characters widening, and the history of the Wardens and Troubletwisters being explored and revealed in more depth, with the twins coming to learn more about their “Gifts” and what connects them to all of the other Troubletwisters that have come before them.]


STARTED:
Larsen, Reif. (2009). The selected works of T.S. Spivet. New York: Penguin.


[Jeunet movie coming soon!!]


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FINISHED:
Nix, Garth, and Sean Williams. (2012). The monster (Troubletwisters #2). New York: Scholastic.


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STARTED:
Nix, Garth, and Sean Williams. (2013). The mystery (Troubletwisters #3). New York: Scholastic.


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FINISHED:
Konigsberg, Bill. (2013). Openly straight. New York: Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic.


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STARTED:
Nix, Garth, and Sean Williams. (2012). The monster (Troubletwisters #2). New York: Scholastic.


[Reviewing Book 3 in the series and realized that I had not read the second one yet...]


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FINISHED:

Sedaris, David. (2013). Let's explore diabetes with owls. New York: Little, Brown & Co.


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STARTED:
Konigsberg, Bill. (2013). Openly straight. New York: Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic.


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FINISHED:
Lawrence, Caroline. (2013). P.K. Pinkerton and the petrified man. New York: Penguin/Putnam.


[Having just set up shop as Virginia City’s newest detective, twelve-year old orphan P.K. Pinkerton is hired by Martha, a girl who witnessed the murder of a local “soiled-dove”, to find the killer.  When Martha herself goes missing, P.K. must look for a man who is “tall & slim & blond with a billy goat beard”… which, unfortunately describes half the men in Virginia City.  Told from P.K.’s perspective in “journal” form (chapters are referred to as “Ledger Sheets”), this second book in Lawrence’s recent Western Mysteries series picks up just days after the events of the first, with P.K. starting his detective business out of an old cigar shop.  P.K.’s undefined, though clearly evident, high-functioning Autism is referred to as he meticulously “catalogues” and memorizes the different brands of tobacco left in the shop from its last inhabitants, and still needs some schooling on how to read the emotions on others faces.  Though not as fast-paced and suspenseful as the first in the series, there’s still a good amount of action and surprises, and fans of the first novel, P.K. Pinkerton and the Deadly Desperados (G.P. Putnam’s/Penguin, 2012), will find plenty of enjoyment in this installment what with the duels, poker games, barn fire, and P.K.’s penchant for disguises (including posing as Martha in an effort to flush out the killer).  As in the previous volume, Samuel Clements makes an appearance as he was a writer for the Virginia City newspaper at the time, and a brief glossary is included which defines/describes period terms, people and places.  References to opium, prostitution, and some laissez-faire-treated, gruesome violence make this one best suited for a slightly older audience.]


STARTED:
Sedaris, David. (2013). Let's explore diabetes with owls. New York: Little, Brown & Co. 


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There were a few books in between this post and the last, I just need to remember what they were...

FINISHED:
Pfeffer, Susan Beth. (2013). The shade of the moon. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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STARTED:
Lawrence, Caroline. (2013). P.K. Pinkerton and the petrified man. New York: Penguin/Putnam.

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