false 23 157 74 true 5646269 read 1 true 3202102 currently-reading 61 true 3202101 to-read 20 true 5232909 put-aside 1 true 5232914 gave-up 0 true 6002225 read-again 36 false 5269245 childrens-literature 36 false 5269249 fiction 28 false 5269236 young-adult 19 false 5269241 picture-books 6 false 5269352 nonfiction 3 false 5269381 culture 3 false 5269238 poetry 2 false 5269423 biography 2 false 8173107 graphic-novels 2 false 5269432 music 1 false 5269365 marketing 1 false 5269364 psychology 1 false 5269410 essays 1 false 5269418 creative-nonfiction 1 false 5269363 sociology 1 false 5269366 business 1 false 5269429 art http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78226315 to: If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now (Hardcover) by Ed Briant
bookshelves: childrens-literature, graphic-novels, picture-books
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78226383 to: Trouble Gum (Hardcover) by Matthew Cordell
bookshelves: childrens-literature, picture-books
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77239066 to: The Storm in the Barn (Hardcover) by Matt Phelan
bookshelves: childrens-literature, graphic-novels, young-adult
http://granitemedia.org/index.php?option... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74798153 to: Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Hardcover) by Ben Ratliff
bookshelves: biography, culture, music, nonfiction
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71678201 Going Bovine (Hardcover) by Libba Bray
bookshelves: currently-reading, fiction, young-adult
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55221376 to: When You Reach Me (Hardcover) by Rebecca Stead
bookshelves: childrens-literature, fiction, young-adult
Placing the mysterious in the midst of the mundane, Rebecca Stead gives us a down-to-earth story of the home and school life of a twelve-year-old girl, interwoven with intriguing science fiction and mystery elements. This is my rookie prediction for the next Newbery Medal winner -- read my full review at http://froztfreez.com/2009/09/when-you-r... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50532790 Ghost Medicine (Hardcover) by Andrew Smith
bookshelves: fiction, put-aside, young-adult
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49680251 Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow (Hardcover) by Jessica Day George
bookshelves: fiction, put-aside, young-adult
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70400630 to: The Magician's Elephant (Hardcover) by Kate DiCamillo
bookshelves: childrens-literature, fiction
Actually 4.5 stars. My review can be found here:

http://froztfreez.com/2009/09/the-magici... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61641477 to: The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback) by J.D. Salinger
bookshelves: fiction, young-adult
Rebelling against the structure and strictures of the traditional coming-of-age novel (with the very first sentence the narrator informs us that he’s not going to go into “all that David Copperfield kind of crap,”) this book instead gives us an unfiltered, uncensored and un-”adult”-erated flash into the life and brain of teenager Holden Caulfield as he wanders around New York City for a couple of days and nights after being kicked out of yet another prep school, not ready to go home and face his parents. There is no epic adventure or crisis, we are simply pulled in by Holden’s hilarious, confessional narration, which from page to page is obnoxious, insightful, vulgar, sensitive, spazzy, intelligent, depressed, distracted and empathetic...

Read my full review here: http://froztfreez.com/2009/08/the-catche... ]]>