Our First Short List

Note: You may also want to take a look at our Second Short List from August 22, or our Third Short List from October 24, but here is the post from our first short list which we made way back in June.

We made our first short list of the year at our last meeting! Each of the books on the list is the current favorite of at least one of our club members. Now everyone in the club will try to read these books so we can decide whether they will stay or go when we make our next short list in a few months. Some of these titles might even be part of our final five in January!

P.S. At our next meeting, we added a few others, thanks to those kids who couldn’t make our first Lock-In.

The List

• The 13th Reality: The Journal of Curious Letters by James Dashner
• The Dead & The Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
• Diamond Willow by Helen Frost
• Fearless by Elvira Woodruff
• Gollywhopper Games by Jody Feldmen
• Jessie’s Mountain by Kerry Madden
• Outside Beauty by Cynthia Kadohata
• Peeled by Joan Bauer
• Puddlejumpers by Mark Jean
• Savvy by Ingrid Law
• Shooting the Moon by Frances O’Roark Dowell
• The Sky Village by Monk Ashland and Nigel Ashland
• Smiles to Go by Jerry Spinelli
• Snow Falling in Spring by Moying Li-Marcus
• The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle
• Tennyson by Lesley M. M. Blume
• Trouble by Gary Schmidt
• The Truth About Truman School by Dori Hillestad Butler
• The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
• Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor
• Where the Steps Were by Andrea Cheng

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