Book Reviews

Here are books I've reviewed, often with commentary about what I learned from them about being an effective writer. Many of these are Newbery winners. Click here to see that list in its entirety.

• Katherine Applegate The One and Only Ivan (2012)
• Avi Crispin: The Cross of Lead (2002)
• Beverly Cleary Dear Mr. Henshaw (1983)
• Susan Cooper The Grey King (1975)
• Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons (1994)
• (anonymous) Culhwch and Olwen (11th century)
• Christopher Paul Curtis Bud, Not Buddy (1999)
• Karen Cushman The Midwife's Appprentice (1995)
• Matt de la Peña Last Stop on Market Street, illustrated by Christian Robinson (2015)
• Chrétien de Troyes The Complete Romances (1190)
• Kate DiCamillo Flora & Ulysses (2013)
• Kate DiCamillo The Tale of Despereaux (2003)
• Paul Fleischman Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices (1988)
• Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book (2010)
• Geoffrey of Monmouth Historia Regum Britanniae (1139)
• Karen Hesse Out of the Dust (1997)
• Cynthia Kadohata Kira-Kira (2006)
• E.L. Konigsburg The View from Saturday (1996)
• Lois Lowry The Giver (1993)
• Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur (1485)
• Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Shiloh (1991)
• Linda Sue Park A Single Shard (2001)
• Katherine Paterson The Bridge to Terabithia (1977)
• Susan Patron The Higher Power of Lucky (2006)
• Richard Peck A Year Down Yonder (2000)
• Lynne Rae Perkins Criss Cross (2005)
• Cynthia Rylant Missing May (1992)
• Louis Sachar Holes (2000)
• Laura Amy Schlitz Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village (2007)
• Rob Sheffield Love Is a Mix Tape (2007)
• Jerry Spinelli Maniac Magee (1990)
• Rebecca Stead When You Reach Me (2009)
• Robert Louis Stevenson Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
• J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit (1937)
• J.R.R. Tolkien The Fall of Arthur (2013)
• Pete Townshend Who I Am (2012)
• Clare Vanderpool Moon Over Manifest (2010)
• (anonymous) The Vulgate Cycle (1250)
• Dean Wareham Black Postcards (2008)
• Neil Young Waging Heavy Peace (2012)

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