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5.01.2008

Waiting for Normal: Review Haiku


Another deadbeat
mother story, but Addie's
worth your sympathy.


Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor. Harper, 2008, 290 pages.

Posted by EM at 9:51 PM
Labels: fiction, haiku, liked it, middle grade

1 comments:

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The LIST

I've set a goal for Year Two (uh, make that Years Two and Three) to read or re-read some Important Books. As I finish a book, I'll add a link in this list. Wish me luck.


  1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  2. Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

  3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

  4. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

  5. A View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg

  6. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

  7. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. I: The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson

  8. The Federalist Papers

  9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

  10. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

  11. Rabbit, Run by John Updike

  12. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

  13. I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier

  14. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

  15. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

  16. Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

  17. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

  18. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

  19. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

  20. The Iliad by Homer

  21. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

  22. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

  23. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

  24. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  25. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
  26. The real Winnie-the-Pooh stories by A. A. Milne
  27. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
  28. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  29. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
  30. Forever . . . by Judy Blume
  31. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  32. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

  33. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  34. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

  35. The Odyssey by Homer
  36. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
  37. The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban
  38. Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
  39. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
  40. the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (some of them, at least)
  41. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  42. The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
  43. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  44. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
  45. Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
  46. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  47. Democracy in America by Alexis d'Tocqueville

  48. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

  49. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

  50. A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

  51. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley

  52. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

  53. Personal History by Katharine Graham

  54. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls



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