Children's Fiction Reviews:
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January 14, 2021
Announcing the 2020 Sonderbooks Stand-outs! This is my twentieth list of my favorite books from a year of reading! Check them out!
My #4 Sonderbooks Stand-out in Children's Fiction, Wink, by Rob Harrell, is a very funny book about a boy in middle school -- who has cancer in his eye. How does the author pull that off? It's based on his own lived experience and he knows exactly what that situation is like - and shows the reader how to laugh rather than cry. (Or maybe a little of both.)
Happy reading!
The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon
Eoin Colfer's Legend of . . . The Worst Boy in the World
The Trouble With Chickens
Emily's Blue PeriodMercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig
Bink and GollieBink and GollieTwo for One
Bink and GollieBest Friends Forever
Dodsworth in Rome
Dodsworth in TokyoThe Dream Stealer
Fortunately, the MilkTua and the Elephant
The Year of Billy Miller
Boris on the Move
Zapato Power
Freddie Ramos Takes Off
Zapato Power
Freddie Ramos Springs Into Action
Zapato Power
Freddie Ramos Zooms to the Rescue
Ling & Ting
Twice as Silly
The Birthday Ball
Lulu and the Duck in the Park
Lulu and the Dog from the SeaLulu and the Rabbit Next DoorDown Girl and Sit: Smarter Than Squirrels
Bad to the BoneTwelve Kinds of IceAnnie and Simon
The Sneeze and Other Stories
Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Maybe Maybe
ClementineThe Talented ClementineClementine's LetterClementine, Friend of the WeekClementine and the Family MeetingClementine and the Spring Trip
The Meanest Birthday Girl
Lulu and the BrontosaurusLulu Walks the Dogs
I Kill the Mockingbird
The CrossoverThe Strange Case of Origami YodaDarth Paper Strikes BackThe Secret of the Fortune Wookiee
The Surprise Attack of Jabba the PuppettFake Mustache
Home of the BraveThe One and Only IvanKepler's Dream
Doll BonesJane, the Fox & MeHate That CatWalk Two MoonsOut of My Mind
The Cat at the WallBetter Nate Than EverWords with WingsChomp
One Dog and His Boy
The Great Greene HeistThe Thing About Luck
One False Note
Swindle
The Grand Plan to Fix EverythingAlvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things
Caddy Ever AfterForever RoseCaddy's World
Heaven Is Paved With OreosThe Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis
WonderLucky BreaksLucky for Good
Summer of the Gypsy MothsThe 14 Fibs of Gregory K.
The Maze of Bones: The 39 Clues, Book One
Guys Read
Funny Business
The Great Wall of Lucy WuTrue Blue
Penny DreadfulLiar & SpyDrama
Three Times Lucky
Goblin Secrets
KeeperThe True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
The Night GardenerThe ProphecyThe Wizard Test
JinxJinx's MagicPlain KateKat, IncorrigibleRenegade MagicStolen MagicOver Sea, Under StoneThe Dark Is RisingGreenwitchThe Grey KingSilver on the Tree
The SwallowHereville: How Mirka Got Her SwordHereville
How Mirka Met a Meteorite
Flora & UlyssesThe Conch Bearer
A Greyhound of a Girl
The Luck Uglies
The Facttracker
Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms
Horten's Incredible Illusions
The Ruins of Gorlan
The Burning Bridge
The Royal Ranger
Ophelia and the Marvelous BoyOnce Upon a Toad
Ghost KnightCoraline
The Graveyard BookOdd and the Frost GiantsTuesdays at the CastleWednesdays in the Tower
A Tale Dark and Grimm
Ever After High
The Storybook of Legends
Fly By NightThe Castle Behind ThornsThe Hero's Guide to Saving Your KingdomThe Hero's Guide to Storming the CastleConstable & ToopThe Shoe BirdSavvyA Wrinkle in TimeEverFairestFairestThe Last BattleWhere the Mountain Meets the MoonStarry River of the SkyA Snicker of MagicPunished!
Wipeout of the Wireless Weenies
What-the-dickens
Abracadabra Tut
Winnie-the-PoohThe Cabinet of EarthsThe False PrinceThe Runaway KingThe Shadow ThroneSaving the GriffinThe Wizard of Dark Street
Akata WitchNuts to You
Cold CerealFangbone!
Third-Grade Barbarian
Half-Minute Horrors
The Red Pyramid:
The Kane Chronicles, Book One
Deadweather and SunriseThe Tales of Beedle the BardOrdinary MagicSplendors and Glooms
Senrid
The Spy PrincessAny Which WallBigger Than a Bread BoxBlack and Blue MagicHokey Pokey
The Adventures of Nanny PigginsThe Silver BowlThe Cup and the Crown
The Fire Chronicle
The Screaming StaircaseThe Whispering SkullThe New PolicemanBreadcrumbs
The Real BoyThe Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own MakingThe Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels ThereThe Chronicles of Harris BurdickCloaked in Red
Frogged
RoseCharlotte's WebThe Prairie ThiefA True Princess
The Wolves of Willoughby ChaseForgeAl
Capone Does My ShirtsThe Mighty Miss MaloneAfrica Is My HomeBull Run
Dead End in NorveltFrom Norvelt to Nowhere
One Dead SpyThe
Silver DonkeyStonewall Hinkleman and the Battle of Bull RunThe Great Trouble
The Friendship Doll
The Lions of Little RockGrandfather's DanceJepp, Who Defied the Stars
Sawdust in His ShoesShilohThe Storm
in the BarnBlufftonThe DreamerBeswitchedThe
Wednesday WarsOkay for NowOkay for NowWonderstruckRoll of Thunder,
Hear My CryThe Time-Traveling Fashionista at the Palace of Marie Antoinette
Navigating Early
One Crazy SummerP.S. Be Eleven
Before Green Gables
The Mysterious HowlingThe Hidden GalleryThe Unseen GuestThe Interrupted Tale
The Secret of Terror Castle
The Mystery of the Stuttering ParrotThe Mystery of the Whispering Mummy
The Mystery of the Green Ghost
The Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure
The Secret of Skeleton Island
The Mystery of the Fiery Eye
The Mystery of the Screaming Clock
The Cowgirl Aunt of Harriet Bean
The Great Cake MysteryThe Mystery of Meerkat Hill
Greenglass House"Who Could That Be at This Hour?"
"When Did You See Her Last?"
"Shouldn't You Be in School?"The Case of the Missing Marquess
SidekickedThe Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen
Star Wars Jedi Academy
Doc Wilde and the Frogs of Doom
LionBoy
LionBoy: The Chase
LionBoy: The Truth
The Search for WondLaA Hero for WondLa
The Fellowship for Alien Detection
Space Case
Zita the Spacegirl
Far From Home
The Fourteenth Goldfish
Geeks, Girls, and Secret IdentitiesLarklightStarcross
Mothstorm
What Came from the Stars
Guys ReadOther Worlds
When You Reach MeThe Mysterious Benedict Society