Book list - Jul 09

The Book of the Lion - YA historical fiction, by Michael Cadnum
The High King - children's fantasy, by Lloyd Alexander (Newbery Medal, 1969)
The Leopard Sword - YA historical fiction, by Michael Cadnum
Gettysburg: The Final Fury - USCW, by Bruce Catton
Irish Red - children's, by Jim Kjelgaard
Bog Child - YA, by Siobhan Dowd (Carnegie Medal, 2009)
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam - USCW, by James M McPherson
Rabbit Hill - children's, by Robert Lawson (Newbery Medal, 1945) *
Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed - children's, by Virginia Hamilton
M C Higgins, the Great - children's, by Virginia Hamilton (Newbery Medal, 1975)
Killer Pizza - children's, by Greg Taylor
Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow - children's, by James Rollins
Outlaw Red - children's, by Jim Kjelgaard
King of the Wind - children's, by Marguerite Henry (Newbery Medal, 1949)
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle - children's, by Hugh Lofting (Newbery Medal, 1923) *
The Turnabout Trick - children's, by Scott Corbett
The Black Mask Trick - children's, by Scott Corbett
The Hangman's Ghost Trick - children's, by Scott Corbett
Magic by the Book - children's modern fantasy, by Nina Bernstein
The Silver Sword (aka Escape from Warsaw) - children's WWII fiction, by Ian Serraillier *
The Twenty-One Balloons - children's, by William Pène du Bois (Newbery Medal, 1948) *
Over Sea, Under Stone - children's modern fantasy, by Susan Cooper *
Prairie School - children's, by Lois Lenski
It's Like This, Cat - children's, by Emily Neville (Newbery Medal, 1964) *
The Dark is Rising - children's modern fantasy, by Susan Cooper
Greenwitch - YA modern fantasy, by Susan Cooper
Winter of Magic's Return - fantasy, by Pamela F Service


27 books this month, with six rereads (marked by asterisks). To reach my goal of 209 books this year, I have to average 17.417 per month; I'm currently still behind track, but catching up.

The one Carnegie Medal winner this month brings me up to 17 of 70. I've now read 86 of the 88 Newbery Medal winners; I've started the 87th, and have an ILL request in for the last one. In the meantime, I'm rereading the seven that I had read before I started this current programme; unfortunately, the library's copy of The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle is an "updated" copy, edited for political correctness. (The original was written in 1922, and of course reflected 1920s racial stereotypes.)