Favorite 2009 Books
Year Of The Flood by Margaret Atwood--apocalyptic fiction
Shooting Star by Frederick McKissack--sports fiction
Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing The Hidden Impacts Of What We Buy
Can Change
Everything by Daniel Goleman
Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell--1930s Canadian West
The Devil's Paintbox by Victoria McKernan--YA historical West
The Yard Dog: A Mystery by Sheldon Russell--WW II historical mystery
Shop Class As Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into The Value Of Work by Mathew
B. Crawford--philosophy
of actually making things
Twisted Tree by Kent Myers--contemporary rural Western murder mystery
Undiscovered Country: A Novel by Lin Unger--contemporary YA Hamlet
Lamentation (Psalms Of Isaak series #1) by Ken Scholes--fantasy
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, And The Greatest
Treasure Hunt In History
by Robert M. Edsel
Boneshaker by Cherie Preist--19th century "steampunk" fantasy
Makers by Cory Doctorow--dystopia/post-apocalyptic fiction--good
encore after his 2008 Little
Brother--YA popular
Pythagoras' Revenge: A Mathematical Mystery by Arturo Sangalli--
mystery/adventure cerebral fiction
Far North: A Novel by Marcel Theroux--comparable to McCarthy's The
Road but more traditional
and easier page turner
Bob Hicks, Librarian
Arkansas City High School Library
Arkansas City, KS 67005
bob.hicks@usd470.com
On Jan 4, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Joan Kimball wrote:
> Twenty-five LM-Netters have sent me their favorite titles for 2009.
> THANK YOU!!
>
> I need at least 10 more replies.
> Let me know your favorites BY SUNDAY JAN.10.
>
> Here's my query: What are your choices for this year's best books
> for elementary and middle school? There are no restrictions: any
> subject, any genre, by anyone in the world, publishing in English in
> 2009. Send one title or many more. I will publish a HIT on January 13.
>
>
> Joan
>
> Joan Kimball
> retired from Hart's Hill School Library, Whitesboro, NY
> now living and writing at
> 165 Thoreau Street, Concord, Mass. 01742
> 978-318-0991 woodkimball@gis.net
>
>
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