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12.30.2011

2011 Year in Review (Haiku)

Number of posts: 148
Number of book reviews: 136

Favorite middle-grade reads:
A Tale Dark and Grimm
Breadcrumbs
The Penderwicks at Point Mouette
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #2: The Hidden Gallery

Favorite chapter book-y reads:
Clementine and the Family Meeting
Lucky for Good

Favorite YA reads:
The Last Little Blue Envelope
Picture This
Beauty Queens
Withering Tights
Real Live Boyfriends
Why We Broke Up

Favorite grown-up reads:
The Borrower
Bossypants
The Pioneer Woman
One Was a Soldier
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch

Best jackets of the year:
Darth Paper Strikes Back
Divergent
A Tale Dark and Grimm
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Beauty Queens
Okay for Now
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch

Books that, if they do not get some kind of ALA award recognition, I will eat my hat:
Breadcrumbs
Okay for Now
Beauty Queens
A Tale Dark and Grimm
Wonderstruck

Posted by EM at 6:00 AM
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