Rebecca Stead: When You Reach Me
Great characters, great mystery, and a whole lot of "A Wrinkle in Time."
Frank Cotttrell Boyce: Cosmic
Among the best books I've read this year.
Frank Cottrell Boyce: Millions
An endearing hero just wants to be saint-like and give his new-found wealth to the poor
Joan Aiken: The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories (Junior Library Guild Selection)
Stories that are just as amazing and amusing as I remember from my childhood. So happy that they're newly printed for a new generation.
Shaun Tan: The Arrival
Just amazing.
Kirsten Miller: Kiki Strike: The Empress's Tomb (Kiki Strike)
Liked this sequel better than the first adventure. 14-year-old girls continue to fight crime in the big city.
Kenneth Oppel: Airborn
Old fashioned adventure on an alternative-world blimp.
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They might not get any more stalwart than Stanley Potts, the hero of David Almond's "The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas." He's kind and true, he runs off and joins the fair, and he communes with fish. What more could you ask for from a lad?
Added plus: illustrations by Oliver Jeffers. A quick, happy, summer read!
I have, in fact, read this summer. But not in an adventuresome sort of way. I'm facing another deadline, and I've been rather desperately grabbing for comfort reading. Re-reads, mostly. Lots of Elizabeth Goudge.
But don't feel sorry for me. Because I ignored some of that panic and read Elizabeth Goudge at Tanglewood.
Mozart. Mahler. Film Night. The Mark Morris Dance Company. And, in one final joyous evening, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.
I didn't read much that night! And now I'm sort of crushing on Emanuel Ax. Because he was charming, funny, and humble.
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