FINISHED:
Tagame, Gengoroh. (2014). Endless Game. Berlin, Germany: Bruno Gmünder.

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STARTED:
Bell, Eric. (2017). Alan Cole is Not a Coward. New York: Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins.

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FINISHED:
Pullman, Philip. (1995). The Golden Compass [His Dark Materials: Book 1]. New York: Ballantine/Random House.

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STARTED:
Tagame, Gengoroh. (2014). Endless Game. Berlin, Germany: Bruno Gmünder.

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FINISHED:
Tagame, Gengoroh. (2017). My Brother's Husband. New York: Pantheon/Penguin Random House.

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STARTED:
Pullman, Philip. (1995). The Golden Compass [His Dark Materials: Book 1]. New York: Ballantine/Random House.

[Re-reading - gearing up for THE BOOK OF DUST trilogy!!!]

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FINISHED:
Applegate, Katherine. (2017). Wishtree. New York: Feiwel and Friends/Macmillan.

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STARTED:
Tagame, Gengoroh. (2017). My Brother's Husband. New York: Pantheon/Penguin Random House.

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FINISHED: 
Lee, Mackenzi. (2017). The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue. New York: Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins.

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STARTED:
Applegate, Katherine. (2017). Wishtree. New York: Feiwel and Friends/Macmillan.

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FINISHED:
O'Reilly, Jane. (2017). The Notations of Cooper Cameron. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda/Lerner.

[Cooper Cameron (no indication of race is conveyed) just finished 5^th grade, and is spending the summer with his mother and older sister at a house on the lake where his grandfather died 2 years earlier – an incident for which Cooper feels responsible, and which seems to have triggered in him some obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) ticks.  With a verbally abusive father out of the way for most of the summer, Cooper, who frequently jots down life lessons in a notebook, learns how to make ice cream for an elderly neighbor and is hired by a nice kid in town to tie fishing lures, which help to keep “That Boy” – his name for the OCD side of himself who causes him to do things in groups of three – at bay.  The awful behavior of his father and the things that he says about Cooper are palpably biting, and there’s a poignancy to Cooper’s continually trying to ward off “That Boy” when he begins to feel his OCD being triggered by a stressful situation.  Though a subplot involving a series of thefts in town feels hyped and then unsatisfyingly resolved, and there seem to be lapses in time throughout the novel, Cooper’s realization that not everything is his fault and sometimes there is nothing he can do to help is a powerfully learned message.]

STARTED:
Lee, Mackenzi. (2017). The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue. New York: Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins.

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ABANDONED:
Milford, Kate. (2017). The Ghosts of Greenglass House. New York: Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

[Over a week and a half... and I still couldn't finish it...  I LOVED the first book, but this one was just too dense and obtuse (see: review of first book) for my taste.  I'll freely admit that when I recently read The Westing Game, I found it completely confounding - just no idea what I was supposed to get from it.  And that book is the closest I can think of to this series.  She's a fantastic writer, just a tad esoteric for me.]

STARTED:
O'Reilly, Jane. (2017). The Notations of Cooper Cameron. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda/Lerner.

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FINISHED: 
Reynolds, Jason. (2017). Patina [Track: Book 2]. New York: Atheneum/Simon & Schuster.

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STARTED & FINISHED:
Kahng, Eik. (2017). David Wiesner & the Art of Wordless Storytelling. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

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STARTED:
Milford, Kate. (2017). The Ghosts of Greenglass House. New York: Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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STARTED:
Reynolds, Jason. (2017). Patina [Track: Book 2]. New York: Atheneum/Simon & Schuster.

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FINISHED:
Alexander, Kwame. (2017). Solo. New York: Blink/HarperCollins.

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STARTED:
van Gulden, Holly, and Bartles-Rabb, Lisa M. (1993). Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting the Adopted Child. New York: Crossroad.

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