Books I've Read

Amanda and Leo are turning eleven, but this is the first birthday they are not celebrating together. In fact, they haven't been speaking to each for a whole year. Very good, but now I have to read the following two books again, because I can't remember how it all ties together!

Tara is to spend the summer at her mother's sister's home in the small town of Willow Falls, a place where odd things happen. Things get weird, eventually.

A very involved story of Mia, who has synesthesia (but doesn't know what it is), and her cat, Mango. Quite a bit of weeping on my part.

With Rebecca Stead. Very nice story of a girl visiting her grandmother in Australia reuniting with her forgotten green friend Bob. I liked it very much!

Several teens end up at a campground to see an eclipse of the sun. A very enjoyable and moving story. I need to look up lucid dreaming. Some of the mechanical stuff seemed a bit off, like, a bus driver replacing a faulty crankshaft (page 89) and the latitude-longitude/GPS/computer explanation (page 248), but the astronomical stuff was checked by real scientists, so it's good.

Rory is nearly twelve years old, finally. But she lives in Willow Falls, so you know odd things are going to happen.

The no-kidding last book in the Willow Falls series had me in tears at the end. Just wish I could remember the previous books!

Jeremy Fink is turning thirteen soon. A mysterious box arrives in the mail, a box that Jeremy's deceased father intended for him to open on his thirteenth birthday. But the keys are missing! Great story!

Josie's sixteenth birthday is coming up, but since she was born on February 29th it is only her fourth birthday. This was a very excellent book which I enjoyed very very much.

A sequel of this is being published soon so I thought I had better read the first one. Very good story of four twelve-year-olds competing in a candy making contest.

The last book in the Willow Falls series, it satisfactorily ties up all the loose ends that have confused me all through the series.