Books Read in 2008

• The Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan
• Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter – Phoebe Damrosch
• Firegirl – Tony Abbott
• Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food that Loves Me Back . . . And How You Can Too – Shauna James Ahern
• The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World’s Most Famous Cooking School – Kathleen Flinn
• Slam – Nick Hornby
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
• Because of Winn-Dixie – Kate DiCamillo
• Coraline – Neil Gaiman
• A Great and Terrible Beauty – Libba Bray
• The Boy I Loved Before – Jenny Colgan
• Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
• When Zachary Beaver Came to Town – Kimberly Willis Holt
• The Design of Everyday Things – Donald Norman
• Tantalize – Cynthia Leitich Smith
• Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
• Missing May – Cynthia Rylant
• Holes – Louis Sachar
• Th1rteen R3asons Why – Jay Asher
• Esperanza Rising – Pam Munoz Ryan
• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything in Italy, India, and Indonesia – Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Moon, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things – Carolyn Mackler
• P.S. I Love You – Ceclia Ahern
• The Cay – Theodore Taylor
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Brian Selznick
• Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac – Gabrielle Zevin
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred D. Taylor
• Book of a Thousand Days – Shannon Hale
• The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
• Jane Austen in Scarsdale: Or Love, Death, and the SATs – Paula Marantz Cohen
• The Wednesday Wars – Gary D. Schmidt
• Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory
• The Return of Jonah Gray – Heather Cochran
• The Little Lady Agency and the Prince – Hester Browne
• Click – Ten Authors
• Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson
• Beowulf: A New Telling – Robert Nye
• Lawn Boy – Gary Paulson
• One-Handed Catch – M.J. Auch
• A Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’Engle
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party – M.T. Anderson
• The Devil’s Arithmetic – Jane Yolen
• Angus, Thongs, and Full-frontal Snogging – Louise Rennison
• Remember Me? – Sophie Kinsella
• The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
• A Wind in the Door – Madeleine L’Engle
• Chasing Vermeer – Blue Balliett
• On the Bright Side, I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God – Louise Rennison
• The House of the Scorpion – Nancy Farmer
• Certain Girls – Jennifer Weiner
• The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
• Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli
• The Market – J.M. Steele
• The Taker – J.M. Steele
• Nothing But the Truth – Avi
• Just Ella – Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Love, Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli
• Up All Night – Peter Abrahams, Libba Bray, David Levithan, Sarah Weeks, Gene Yang, Patricia McCormick
• The Bronze Bow – Elizabeth George Speare
• Shadow of a Bull – Maia Wojciechowska
• Smiles to Go – Jerry Spinelli
• The Slave Dancer – Paula Fox
• Love the One You’re With – Emily Griffin
• 100 Days and 99 Nights – Alan Madison
• The Thief Lord – Cornelia Funke
• Cicada Summer – Andrea Beaty
• The Host – Stephenie Meyer
• Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder – David Weinberger
• When it Happens – Susan Colasanti
• Kira Kira – Cynthia Kadohata
• Good Enough – Paula Yoo
• The Magic Half – Annie Barrows
• The Redheaded Princess – Ann Rinaldi
• Slipping – Cathleen Davitt Bell
• Caught Between the Pages – Marlene Carvell
• The Juliet Club – Suzanne Harper
• My Dad’s a Birdman – David Almond
• Revolution is not a Dinner Party – Ying Chang Compestine
• The Willoughbys – Lois Lowry
• Audrey, Wait! – Robin Benway
• My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park – Steve Kluger
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clark
• Rapunzel’s Revenge – Shannon and Dean Hale
• Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
• Alive and Well in Prague, New York – Daphne Grab
• Planet Pregnancy – Linda Oatman High
• The Loser’s Guide to Life and Love – A. E. Cannon
• Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
• New Moon – Stephenie Meyer
• Keys to the Kingdom: Mister Monday – Garth Nix
• Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer
• Monster – Dean Walter Myers
• Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
• The Possibilities of Sainthood – Donna Freitas
• The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
• Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos – R.L. LaFevers
• Al Capone Does My Shirts – Gennifer Choldenko
• Forever – Judy Blume
• Jip, His Story – Katherine Paterson
• Geography Club – Brent Hartinger
• Thoreau at Walden – John Porcellino
• Sweethearts – Sara Zarr
• Story of a Girl – Sara Zarr
• Tex – S. E. Hinton
• The Declaration – Gemma Malley
• How NOT to be Popular – Jennifer Ziegler
• Shakespeare’s Secret – Elise Broach
• High Dive – Tammar Stein
• Crispin, Cross of Lead – Avi
• Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas – Louise Rennison
• Dragon’s Blood – Jane Yolen
• Looking for Alaska – John Green
• Vegan Virgin Valentine – Carolyn Mackler
• American Born Chinese – Gene Luen Yang
• My Mother the Cheerleader – Robert Sharenow
• The Chocolate War – Robert Comier
• Light Years – Tammar Stein
• Wicked Lovely – Melissa Marr
• Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants – Louise Rennison
• Homecoming – Cynthia Voigt
• Guyaholic: A Story of Finding, Flirting, Forgetting . . .and the Boy Who Changes Everything – Carolyn Mackler
• What I Saw and How I Lied – Judy Blundell
• The Adoration of Jenna Fox – Mary E. Pearson
• Away Laughing on a Fast Camel – Louise Rennison
• Einstein for Beginners – Joseph Schwartz and Michael McGuinness
• Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers – Louise Rennison
• An Abundance of Katherines – John Green
• Fly on the Wall – E. Lockhart
• Startled by His Furry Shorts – Louise Rennison
• Paper Towns – John Green
• Dicey’s Song – Cynthia Voigt
• Love is a Many Trousered Thing – Louise Rennison
• Stop in the Name of Pants – Louise Rennison
• Frindle – Andrew Clements
• The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own – Nina Garcia
• Skulduggery Pleasant – Derek Landy
• Girl 15, Charming But Insane – Sue Limb
• The Spectacular Now – Tim Tharp
• Olive’s Ocean – Kevin Henkes
• Savvy – Ingrid Law
• The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy – Jeanne Birdsall
• Chains – Laurie Halse Anderson
• A Curse Dark as Gold – Elizabeth C. Bunce
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks – E. Lockhart

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