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Tegan's Top Ten Kid's Reads for 2009
When You Reach Me (Hardcover)
Availability: Readily Available
Published: Wendy Lamb Books, 07/01/2009
"What starts out as a fun and interesting story about a girl growing up in New York City in the 1970s takes amazing twists to one of the best surprises-- and most rewarding endings-- I've read. Smart and satisfying."- Tegan
Ages 9-14
Flawed Dogs: The Novel (Hardcover)
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Published: Philomel, 09/01/2009
"I still almost cry every time I think about this beautiful, funny book. It's like the best pound puppies-- full of love, utterly unique, an deserving of your loyalty and attention." -Tegan
Ages 8- 108+
Any Which Wall (Paperback)
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Published: Yearling, 05/01/2010
"This gives me that carefree, summer-time feeling every time I think about it. The group of kids and their magical adventures have an innocence and excitement that's hard to find." -Tegan
Ages 9-12
The Magician's Elephant (Hardcover)
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Published: Candlewick, 09/01/2009
"TIE between The Magician's Elephant and Leo and the Lesser Lion: Two very different novels, but both are timeless and beautiful." -Tegan
Mike Stellar: Nerves of Steel (Paperback)
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Published: Yearling, 05/01/2010
"A darn funny and thrilling futuristic novel about a boy on a space station-- and a mission. My favorite nickname in the book? 'Boogermunch.' Sure brings out the 10-year-old boy in me!" -Tegan
Ages 9-12
The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour (Hardcover)
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Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 04/01/2009
"This book had all I was craving: a great narrator, a fun mystery, delightful friendships, and puzzles that I could solve along with the characters."- Tegan
Ages 9-14
Al Capone Shines My Shoes (Hardcover)
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Published: Dial, 09/01/2009
"This sequel can stand alone as a humorous but touching novel about life on Alcatraz Island as a child of a guard in 1935. Meet Capone and his wife Mae and ponder issues like how to treat convicts who come to fix your plumbing and what to do when you owe one to the country's most dangerous mobster." -Tegan
Ages 9-13
Andrew North Blows Up the World (Hardcover)
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Published: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 09/01/2009
"'All good spies have a sidekick, and monkeys make perfect assistants... Monkeys aren't cheap. Not anymore.' Learn all this and more as Andrew North, 3rd grader, not-so-suavely dodges the perils of elementary school and a teenaged brother." -Tegan
Ages 7-10
The Girl Who Threw Butterflies (Paperback)
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Published: Yearling, 02/01/2010
"I found this very sweet and emotionally true-- a book that deals with grief and eighth grade in a very realistic way. I got so caught up in Molly's adventures on the boys' baseball team that I couldn't help cheering for her (and her wonderful friends) the whole book through." -Tegan
Ages 11-14
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute (Paperback)
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Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 07/01/2009
"TIE: Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Institute and Ottoline Goes to School. One has a lunch lady heroine who thwarts evil with the help of nifty gadgets like a spatucopter (yes, it's a spatula that turns into a helicopter). The other has a little girl who attends a boarding school with her best friend, a hairy Norwegian bog creature named Mr. Munroe. Both have hilarious stories and detailed illustrations that will keep kids rereading." -Tegan
Ages 7-10.
Leo and the Lesser Lion (Hardcover)
Availability: Readily Available
Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 08/01/2009
"TIE between The Magician's Elephant and Leo and the Lesser Lion: Two very different novels, but both are timeless and beautiful." -Tegan
Ottoline Goes to School (Hardcover)
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Published: HarperCollins, 07/01/2009
"TIE: Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Institute and Ottoline Goes to School. One has a lunch lady heroine who thwarts evil with the help of nifty gadgets like a spatucopter (yes, it's a spatula that turns into a helicopter). The other has a little girl who attends a boarding school with her best friend, a hairy Norwegian bog creature named Mr. Munroe. Both have hilarious stories and detailed illustrations that will keep kids rereading." -Tegan
Ages 7-10.
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoetby David Mitchell
I became a fan of Mitchell after I read his wildly inventive Cloud Atlas, so I was expecting literary pyrotechnics from his latest. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, the sweeping story of the Dutch East Indies Company in Japan at the turn of the 19th century, reads like a combination of Patrick O'Brien's nautical historical fiction, the exoticism and passion of Shogun, and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" because of a creepy part of the plot. Wow!... read the rest of Tegan's review
The City & the City
by China Mieville
I think good Science Fiction uses an altered reality to reveal something
about the real world that couldn’t be revealed without that altered
setting. Great Science Fiction does this and entertains as well. China
Mieville’s The City and the City is really great Sci-fi. It
begins feeling like a dark, well-written, noir-style mystery – a body
has been found in the city of Beszel, detective Borlu has been assigned
to investigate – but the story quickly takes a sci-fi turn... read the rest of Lillian's review.
