Two reasons why this is so long this week. One: it’s Cybils season (only a couple more days to put in your nominations…), so the middle grade section is a list of books I need to read sooner rather than later. And secondly, I started volunteering at the public library (finally, yay!). I thoroughly enjoy this, but… I see a book, I WANT the book, and because it’s the library, I take home the book. The question is: when am I going to find time to READ the book???

Picture Books:
Elsie’s Bird, by Jane Yolen/Illus. by David Small
Creak! Said the Bed, by Phyllis Root/Illus. by Regan Dunnick
The Little Green Goose, by Adele Sansone/Illus. by Anke Faust
Muddy As a Duck Puddle and Other American Similes, by Laurie Lawlor/Illus. by Ethan Long
Hey, Rabbit!, by Sergio Ruzzier
Alfie Runs Away, by Kenneth M. Cadow/Illus. by Lauren Castillo

Middle Grade:
Year of the Tiger, by Alison Lloyd
The Red Umbrella, by Christinaq Diaz Gonzalez
Touch Blue, by Cynthia Lord

Young Adult:
The Princess and the Snowbird, by Mette Ivie Harrision
Castle in the Air, by Diana Wynne Jones
Evermore: The Immortals, by Alyson Noel
Behemoth, by Scott Westerfeld

The roundup is either at Adventures of an Intrepid Reader or The Captive Reader. Obligatory FTC note: the links are provided through my Amazon Associates account. If you click through and actually purchase one of these books, I’ll get a teeny, tiny payment. But, since no one ever does, and it’s SO much easier using the associates account to put up these links, I’m going to keep doing it.