Mrs. Shesman's 2009 Reading Log
1. Girl, Barely 15, Flirting for England
by Sue Limb
2. The Lump of Coal
by Lemony Snicket
3. The Merchant of Death
by D, J, MacHale
4. A Beginning, a Muddle, and an End
by Avi
5. Birmingham, 1963
by Carole Boston Weatherford
6. What You Never Knew About Beds, Bedrooms, & Pajamas
by Patricia Lauber
7. Death by Latte
by Linda Gerber
8. Boot Camp
by Todd Strasser
9. L is for Lollygag
10. Funny in Farsi
by Firoozeh Dumas
11. Twice Upon a Marigold
by Jean Ferris
12. No Talking!
by Andrew Clements
13. Neptune's Children
by Bonnie Dobkin
14. From Head to Toe:
Bound Feet, Bathing Suits, and Other Bizarre and Beautiful Things
by Janice Weaver
15. Odd Thomas
by Dean Koontz
16. Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
by multiple authors
17. Thirteen Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
18. Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem
by Jack Prelutsky
19. The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
20. Forever Odd
by Dean Koontz
21. Two Miserable Presidents
by Steve Sheinkin
22. The Conductor is Dead
by Lemony Snickett
23. The Compound
by S. A. Bodeen
24. Found
by Mary Downing Hahn
25. Odd Hours
by Dean Koontz
26. King George: What Was His Problem?
by Steve Sheinkin
27. Vote for Larry
by Janet Tashjian
28. Larry and the Meaning of Life
by Janet Tashjian
29. The Reformed Vampire Support Group
by Catherine Jinks
30. Enigmatic Events
by Gary Blackwood
31. Tenderness
by Robert Cormier
32. Heaven Looks A Lot Like the Mall
by Wendy Mass
33. The Surrender Tree
by Margarita Engle
34. Brother Odd
by Dean Koontz
35. Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
by Wendy Mass
36. Sleeping Beauty: The One Who Took The Really Long Nap
by Wendy Mass
37. The World's Most Notorious Crooks
by Matt Doeden
38. Rapunzel: The One With All The Hair
by Wendy Mass
39. Steve Callahan: Adrift at Sea
by Holly Cefrey
40. Bunker 10
by J. A. Henderson
41. Leap Day
by Wendy Mass
42. Swindle
by Gordon Korman
43. The Great Fire
by Jim Murphy
44. The Boys' War
by Jim Murphy
45. Blizzard
by Jim Murphy
46. The Killing Sea
by Richard Lewis
47. Knucklehead
by Jon Scieszka
48. The Juvie Three
by Gordon Korman
49. Motel of the Mysteries
by David Macauley
50. Skulduggery Pleasant
by Derek Landy
51. Go Big or Go Home
by Will Hobbs
52. Me, Oh Maya
by Jon Scieszka
53. Summer Reading Is Killing Me
by Jon Scieszka
54. On The Line
by Fred Bowen
55. Off the Rim
by Fred Bowen
56. Unbuilding
by David Macauley
57. Cathedral
by David Macauley
58. The 6th Grade Nickname Game
by Gordon Korman
59. A Writing Kind of Day
by Ralph Fletcher
60. Moving Day
by Ralph Fletcher
Picture Books:
The Patchwork Quilt
Jerry Pinkney
Minty
Jerry Pinkney
Testing Miss Malarkey
Kevin O'Malley and Judy Finchler
Captain Raptor and the Moon Mystery
Kevin O'Malley
Captain Raptor and the Space Pirates
Kevin O'Malley
61. The London Eye Mystery
by Siobhan Dowd
62. Someone Named Eva
by Joan Wolf
63. A Thousand Never Evers
by Shana Burg
64. Vision in White
by Nora Roberts
(We do not have this book in the media center. It is not recommended for middle school students.)
65. Dragon's Keep
by Janet Lee Carey
66. The Associate
by John Grisham
(We do not have this book in the media center.)
67. Angry Management
by Chris Crutcher
68. Gone
by Michael Grant
69. Every Soul a Star
by Wendy Mass
70. My Point: And I Do Have One
by Ellen DeGeneres
71. Readicide
by Kelly Gallagher
72. Airman
by Eoin Colfer
73. Hope Was Here
by Joan Bauer
74. Black Hills
by Nora Roberts
(We do not have this book in the media center. It is not recommended for middle school students.)
75. Marcelo in the Real World
by Francisco X. Stork
76. The Enemy: A Book About Peace
by David Cali and Serge Bloch
77. Tales From Outer Suburbia
by Shaun Tan
78. The Librarian From the Black Lagoon
by Mike Thaler
79. Frankenstein Takes the Cake
by Adam Rex
80. 11 Birthdays
by Wendy Mass
81. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
by John Boyne
82. Tantalize
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
83. Ten Things I Hate About Me
by Randa Abdel-Fattah
84. Three Willows
by Anne Brashares
85. Pop
by Gordon Korman
86. The Arrival
by Shaun Tan
87. Fang Fairy
by Andy Smith
88. Slam
by Nick Hornby
89. Stolen
by Vivian Vande Velde
90. Reading Reasons
by Kelly Gallagher
91. Love is Hell
by various authors
92. African Acrostics
by Avis Harley and Deborah Noyes
93. Song of Be
by Lesley Beake
94. The Old African
by Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney
95. Prom Nights from Hell
by Various Authors
96. Streams of Babel
by Carol Plum Ucchi
