What I Read, 2009

[heatherbird]

What I Read, 2009

Fiction
- Classics
○ Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
○ Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

- Contemporary
○ My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
○ Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch

YA/Middle Grade Fiction
- Historical Fiction:
○ The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by Boyne
○ Nobody's Princess by Esther Friesner
○ Nobody's Prize by Esther Friesner
○ Ophelia by Lisa Klein
○ Lady Macbeth's Daughter by Lisa Klein

- Fantasy/Science Fiction
○ The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - my favorite quotes from the book are here
○ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling* - my favorite quotes are here
○ The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan (which he dedicated to his eighth grade English teacher- making me love Riordan even more!)
○ City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
○ City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
○ City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
○ The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
○ So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane*

- Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
○ The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton* - with my students
○ Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
○ Tangerine by Edward Bloor

Nonfiction
- Professional (Teaching)
○ Teaching Smarter With the Brain in Focus by Sarah Armstrong - Armstrong presented an inservice at school and I use a lot of her ideas in my classroom
○ Reading and the Middle School Student: Strategies to Enhance Literacy by Judith L. Irvin
○ The First Days of School by Harry and Rosemary Wong*
○ Guiding Readers and Writers by Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell*
○ I Read It, But I Don't Get It by Cris Tovani

- Writing
○ No Plot? No Problem! By Chris Baty*

- Juvenile Nonfiction
○ Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton

KEY:
* - indicates a re-read
italics - indicates a favorite read :)