And the winner is Jackaroo by Cynthia Voigt, suggested by one of my lovely Texas friends, Alison K. And just in time, too, as I finished Dealing with Dragons just yesterday.
I also put several of the books you suggested on hold, so we’ll see how many I can manage to get through this month. Cross your fingers for me.
Other non-winning bids:
- Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas (Tootie)
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (Chrissie)
- Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction by David Sheff (P)
- One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus (Jle122)
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Shelly)
- Beauty by Robin McKinley (Suey and Merry)
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett (RA, Em and Trev, Yankee Girl, and Mom)
- Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth (Carly Jane and Deborah)
- The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois (Jenny)
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Melanie)
- Anna Karenina by Tolstoy (Kayla)
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (Smalldog)
- Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabarger (Katie)
- It Sucked and Then I Cried by Heather Armstrong (Crafty Ashley)
- A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins (Kimberly)
- There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom by Louis Sachar (Jessica)
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (Sherry)
- The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science by Todd Tucker (Poodle)
- Matilda by Roald Dahl (Abby)
- The Road Home by Ellen Emerson White (Angiegirl)
- Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (Saskia)
- The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman by Louise Plummer (Mary)
- The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier (Angela Noelle)
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (Miri)
- Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins (Peaceful Reader)
- Bitten by Kelley Armstrong (Laurie)
Of these, I’ve read:
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- It Sucked and Then I Cried by Heather Armstrong
- Anna Karenina by Tolstoy (although Kayla tells me it doesn’t count because I didn’t read it in the original Russian, so you know, take it for what you will)
- Beauty by Robin McKinley
and, a new category – books I might possibly have read but cannot actually remember because I am suddenly becoming old and probably can’t remember my own address anymore:
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
- The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois
Carly Jane says
OH I LOVE Jackaroo. I've read this book I don't know how many times. I could still tell you exactly where to find it on my mom's downstairs bookshelf… I don't know what it was about this style of book, but I read every single one I could get my hands on :). Cynthia Voigt is one of my all-time favorite authors.
Miri says
Okay, I see from your list that you haven't read Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss, and I would like to say that you definitely should. It's short and absolutely hilarious and I think you'd like it.
Packrat says
Enjoy! This was one of my daughter's favorites.
RA says
Yay, I love Cynthia Voigt!
Kimberly F. says
Oh man, oh man, oh man. I am so happy at this result. I read "On Fortune's Wheel" (in the same loosely-connected series) when I was in middle school and it is one of my all-time favorites. I was actually going through a reading drought at the time and the book made me love reading again. You should definitely read the whole series if you like Jackaroo.
Angela Noelle says
drat.
Angiegirl says
Yep, JACKAROO's a winner. Enjoy!
Abby says
Ohhh, I'm glad you've read Matilda! And I'm glad you picked Jackaroo – I love that one, too! Jackaroo was one of my picks for the Unsung YA project!
Peaceful Reader says
I hope you've read Tuck Everlasting-it's very good. I'll have to look Jackaroo on my list-seems like a great choice.