Abe's reading lists

(Last Update: 07:07 PDT 19 August 2010 )

This list is only a very minor subset of the books Abe has read, containing only those that we recorded for a summer reading program or for school.

Abe was not a very early reader. The first indications of reading ability were when he was 3 years and 3 months old. Abe and I were in Logos, the used bookstore in downtown Santa Cruz, California Saturday evening (24 July 1999), browsing in the children's section. Abe brought me a book and said, "Please read me 'The Pig in the Pond.'" This was not a book I had seen before, so I asked him "Oh, is this a book they have at the Granary?" (The Granary was his preschool, which he went to half time---I'd read about a hundred of their books to Abe, but not all of them.) Abe said, "No, I just read the title."

We read the book, and, needless to say, I bought it. Later, when we were telling Michele (his Mom) about the incident, Abe said that he could only read one or two words. Perhaps he thought that we thought that he could read everything, and wouldn't read to him any more. (not likely!)

The first book that Abe read by himself was Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss, on 3 Sept 2001 (age 5;6). This book has only about 50 distinct words. Over the next year, his reading ability exploded, going up at least six grade levels. On 2 May 2003 (end of 1st grade), he took the Scholastic Reading Inventory test and got a "lexile" of 1027, which put him at about an 8th grade reading level (7 years ahead of his age group). (See http://www.lexile.com/ for information about lexiles.) He retook the test in October 2003 (beginning of 2nd grade---the SRI has different questions every time you take it) and scored 1131. On 2 March 2005, his SRI score was 1250, which would give him an expected 86% comprehension rate on 12th-grade books, according to the lexile calculator at http://www.lexile.com/Calculator/LexileCalculator.asp On 10 June 2005, his SRI score was 1712, which seems anomalously high--I don't know what the test-retest reliability for these scores is.

Abe is a fast reader. I timed him on a couple pages of a "young adult" book, and he was reading at about 390 words per minute on 2 April 2005.

Reading Contests

http://bookadventure.org/

http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/content/Summer_Reading05.mspx

Just read for a few hours in July and keep a log. Books and gift certificates as prizes.

General book lists

http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=bookmediaawards

American Library Association's collection of various book and media awards. A comprehensive list.

http://www.employees.org/~clu/Page1/BrainyKid.html#Reading

Recommended Reading List for Gifted 4th and 5th Graders

http://www.dawcl.com/

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature. I don't know how extensive the indexing is.

http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/book_selector/index_adv.asp

A searchable database of reviews of children's books. Reviews written by librarians of Buckinghamshire County Council. There were 1675 reviews as of 2 Jan 2005. Sampling a few---the reviews seem good, but there is no way to convert the reviews into a recommended reading list---you have to read each review to figure out if the book is worth looking for.

http://www.txla.org/groups/tba/index.html

Texas Bluebonnet Awards. TBA publish an annual list of 20 recent books, and students in 3rd-6th grades in Texas vote on their favorites (they have to read at least 5 to be able to vote).

http://www.txla.org/groups/yart/lonestar.html

Texas Lone Star Reading Lists. Recommended recreational reading for Texas students in grades 6, 7, or 8. Copyright must be in last 2 years.

http://www.txla.org/groups/yart/tayshaslists.html

Texas Tayshas Reading Lists Recommened recreational reading for Texas teens. Copyright must be in the last 2 years. Books on Bluebonnet or Lone Star lists are excluded.

http://www.santacruzpl.org/

Santa Cruz Public Library. In addition to the catalog, there are several local reference sources (local history, local endangered species list, ...) and circulation information.

Library Summer Reading program 2002

The library program this summer offered children a $1 coupon, called a sand dollar, for each edge-inch of reading (up to $20). They also had to read a newspaper article and a magazine article or website for each sand dollar. The hardest part was finding newspaper articles of interest to a 6-year-old. It turned out that one of the best sources was the question-and-answer column in the weekly Science Times section of the Tuesday New York Times. The program lasted from June 15 to July 27---Abe finished early, but we did not record the dates for all the books.

Summer Reading 2002

Date	Author	Title
16 June	Beverly Cleary	Dear Mr. Henshaw
16 June	Dr. Seuss	The Butter Battle Book
17 June	Beverly Cleary	Ramona the Pest
17 June	Donald Hall	Lucy's Summer
18 June	Walter Brooks	Freddy the Detective
18 June	Wally Piper	The Little Engine That Could
18 June	Dick King-Smith	Mr. Ape
19 June	Eleanor Cameron	The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet
19 June	Kevin Kiser	Sherman the Sheep
20 June	Beverly Cleary	Runaway Ralph
20 June	Henrik Drescher	The Boy Who Ate Around
23 June	Dick King-Smith	The Queen's Nose
23 June	Jack Prelutsky	The Baby Uggs are Hatching
	Christine McDonnell.	Toad Food and Measle Soup
	Dr. Seuss	The King's Stilts
	Donna Jo Napoli	Jimmy, the Pickpocket of the Palace
	Dr. Seuss	The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins
	Else Holmelund Minarik, Maurice Sendak	Little Bear's Visit
	Cynthia Rylant	Mr. Putter and Tabby Pour the Tea
	Cynthia Rylant	Mr. Putter and Tabby Toot the Horn
	Dayal Kaur Khalsa	How Pizza Came to Queens
	Gary Larson	There's a Hair in my Dirt
	Esther Averill	Jenny's Moonlight Adventure
	Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith	Summer Reading is Killing Me
	Dr. Seuss	And to Think that I Saw it on Mulberry Street
	Esther Averill	The Hotel Cat
	Cynthia Rylant	Mr. Putter and Tabby Paint the Porch
3 July	Elizabeth Winthrop	The Castle in the Attic
4 July	Jackie French Koller	The Dragonling
9 July	Eleanor Cameron	Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet
9 July	David Legge	Bamboozled
9 July	Beverly Cleary	Ramona and her Father
9 July	William Joyce	Dinosaur Bob
14 July	Hergé	The Shooting Star
15 July	Jane Yolen	Boots and the Seven Leaguers
15 July	David McPhail	First Flight
15 July	Tomie de Paola	Bonjour, Mr. Satie
15 July	Robert McCloskey	Homer Price
15 July	David Galef	The Little Red Bicycle
15 July	??	It's Magic?
19 July	Patricia Wrede	Dealing with Dragons
20 July	Andrew Dunn	Lifting by Levers
20 July	Andrew Dunn	Wheels at Work

First grade

Abe's first-grade teacher, Kathy Mitchell, had all the parents keep a log of their children's reading. We did not record all the books Abe read, excluding very short books and books that he was re-reading that were already recorded. We also did not include books (mainly non-fiction) that he read sections of, but only books that he read cover-to-cover.

First Grade 2002--2003

Date	Author	Title
23 Sept	Dick King-Smith	Charlie Muffin's Miracle Mouse
24 Sept	Beverly Cleary	Henry and the Clubhouse
25 Sept	Beverly Cleary	Henry and the Paper Route
25 Sept	Hergé	The Black Island
1 Oct	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
4 Oct	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
8 Oct	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
17 Oct	D. Macaulay	Underground
18 Oct	H.A. Rey and Margret Rey	Curious George Goes to a Chocolate Factory
18 Oct	T. Hughes	Iron Giant
20 Oct	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
20 Oct	Cynthia Rylant	Mr. Putter and Tabby Pick the Pears
22 Oct	C.S. Lewis	The Magician's Nephew
22 Oct	Hergé	Red Rackham's Treasure
23 Oct	C.S. Lewis	The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
25 Oct	H.A. Rey and Margret Rey	Curious George and the Dump Truck
26 Oct	C.S. Lewis	The Horse and his Boy
26 Oct	Mordecai Richler	Jacob Two-Two and the Hooded Fang
28 Oct	C.S. Lewis	Prince Caspian
29 Oct	C.S. Lewis	Voyage of the Dawn Treader
31 Oct	C.S. Lewis	The Silver Chair
1 Nov	C.S. Lewis	The Last Battle
1 Nov	H.A. Rey	Curious George Makes Pancakes
8 Nov	M Norton	Bed-knobs and Broomsticks
9 Nov	P.L. Travers	Mary Poppins
9 Nov	M. Sendak	Higgelty, Piggelty Pop ...
9 Nov	S. Masters	The Secret Life of Hubie Hartzel
11 Nov	P.L. Travers	Mary Poppins in the Park
12 Nov	Hergé	The Secret of Flight 714
13 Nov	L. Leyton	My First Magic Book
13 Nov	G. Fornari	Inside the Body (a lift-the-flap book)
14 Nov	J. Cole and B. Degen	Ms. Frizzle's Adventures in Ancient Egypt
22 Nov	Pegi Shea	Whispering Cloth
23 Nov	Allen Say	Tea with Milk
23 Nov	D. Hopkinson	Birdie's Lighthous
23 Nov	J. Winter	Frida
26 Nov	Roald Dahl	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
26 Nov	S.D. Wyeth	Something Beautiful
27 Nov	C. VanAllsburg	Bad Day at Riverbend
29 Nov	J.R.R. Tolkien	The Hobbit
30 Nov	Susan E. Quinlan	The Case of the Mummified Pigs and Other Mysteries in Nature
20 Nov	K. Tchana	The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women
1 Dec	Lloyd Alexander	The Book of Three
1 Dec	Lloyd Alexander	The Black Cauldron
4 Dec	Hergé	The Red Sea Sharks
4 Dec	Hergé	Land of Black Gold
5 Dec	M. Brown	Arthur and the Scare-your-pants-off Club
5 Dec	J. McCann	Scooby Doo and the Phantom Cowboy
10 Dec	Norton Juster	The Phantom Tollbooth
11 Dec	Roald Dahl	George's Marvelous Medicine
12 Dec	Megan McDonald	Judy Moody was in a Mood ...
12 Dec	Megan McDonald	Judy Moody Saves the World
12 Dec	Roald Dahl	Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
12 Dec	B. Cleary	Ramona and Her Mother
14 Dec	Lloyd Alexander	Castle of Llyr
15 Dec	Lloyd Alexander	Taran Wanderer
16 Dec	Roald Dahl	Dirty Beasts
18 Dec	Jürg Obrist	The Miser who Wanted the Sun
18 Dec	Lillian Ross	The Little Old Man and His Dreams
18 Dec	Marguerita Rudolph	The Sneaky Machine
18 Dec	Bill Peet	The Caboose who was Loose
18 Dec	Roald Dahl	The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
20 Dec	Megan McDonald	Judy Moody Gets Famous
24 Dec	Roald Dahl	The Magic Finger
24 Dec	Lawrence Yep	The Dragon Prince
24 Dec	James Howe	Horace and Morris Join the Chorus
24 Dec	Lauren Child	What Planet are you from Clarice Bean?
24 Dec	Toni and Slade Morrison	The Book of Mean People
25 Dec	Hergé	Tintin in Tibet
25 Dec	Diane de Groat	We Gather Together, Now Please Get Lost
25 Dec	Judith St. George and David Small	So You Want to be an Inventor
26 Dec	Hergé	The Broken Ear
27 Dec	Dick King-Smith	Ace, the Very Important Pig
		Lots of re-reading, including all 4 Harry Potter books
11 Jan 2003	George Suyeoka et al.	Issunboshi
17 Jan 2003	William Miller	The Piano
17 Jan	Cynthia Rylant	Poppleton (book 1)
17 Jan	Cyntha Rylant	Henry and Mudge get the cold shivers
19 Jan	E. Nesbit	The Railway Children
24 Jan	Dr. Seuss	Bartholemew and the Oobleck
25 Jan	Richard and Florence Atwater	Mr. Popper's Penguins
28 Jan	William Steig	Amos and Boris
28 Jan	Marvin Miller	You be the Detective
29 Jan	Bruce Colville	The Dragonslayers
		re-read first 3 Harry Potter books
1 Feb	Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly	Strange Stories for Strange Children
5 Feb	Priscilla Turner	The War between the Vowels and the Consonants
5 Feb	Chris Van Allsburg	Zathura
6-17 Feb	Rose Impey	Jumble Joan
6-17 Feb	Rose Impey	Scare yourself to sleep
6-17 Feb	Scholastic, Inc.	The Magic School Bus gets Programmed
6-17 Feb	Edward Eager	Half Magic
6-17 Feb	Barbara Park	Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky, Peeky Spying
6-17 Feb	Marc Brown	Arthur meets the President
6-17 Feb	Marc Brown	Arthur's New Puppy
6-17 Feb	Marc Brown	Arthur's Pet Business
6-17 Feb	Marc Brown	Arthur Goes to Camp
6-17 Feb	Rev. W. Awdry	Thomas the Tank Engine Storybook
6-17 Feb	Gallimard Jeunesse/Scholastic	The Camera
22 Feb	David Macaulay	The Way Things Work
22 Feb	Marlee Matlin	Deaf Child Crossing
22 Feb	Bruce Colville	Odder than Ever
2 March		Finished 3rd read of Harry Potter books
5 March	Holling Clancy Holling	Paddle-to-the-sea
7 March	Bill Peet	Chester the Worldly Pig
8 March	Alexander Theroux	Master Snickup's Cloak
12 March	Hergé	King Ottokar's Sceptre
12 March	Hergé	Explorers on the Moon
13 March	William Steig	The Amazing Bone
13 March	Leyla Torres	Gorrión del Metro
18 March	Allen Say	Grandfather's Journey
20 March	John Bellairs	The House with a Clock in its Walls
22 March	H.A. and Margret Rey	Curious George Feeds the Animals
23 March	Satoshi Kitamura	Sheep in Wolves' Clothing
24 March	Eric Kimmel	The Three Princes
27 March	J.L. Garcia-Sanchez and M.A. Pacheco	Los niños que no tenían escuelas
27 March	Don Brown	Rare Treasure
28 March	Mary Raynor	Garth Pig and the Ice Cream Lady
1 Apr	Robin Muller	Molly Whuppie and the Giant
2 Apr	Tomi Ungerer	Emil (en Español)
3 Apr	Robert Mccloskey	Centerburg Tales
4 Apr	Mary Raynor	Mrs. Pig's Bulk Buy
8 Apr	Robert Service	The Cremation of Sam McGee
9 Apr	Tomi Ungerer	Adelaide (en Español)
11 Apr	Mark Teague	The Secret Shortcut
14 Apr	Bruce Coville	Into the Land of Unicorns
16 Apr	Elizabeth Nesbit	The Phoenix and the Carpet
19 Apr	Brian Jacques	Redwall
19 Apr	M. Anno	Anno's Magic Multiplying Jar
20 Apr	Hans Enzensberger	The Number Devil
22 Apr	Louis Sachar	Holes
28 Apr	Ron Hansen	The Shadowmaker
28 Apr	Lawrence Yep	The Junior Thunder Lord
30 Apr	Donna Guthrie et al.	The Young Author's Do-It-Yourself Book
3 May	Uri Shulevitz	The Magician
3 May	Margaret Friskey	Indian Two Feet and His Horse
3 May	Beniece Freschett	Bear Mouse
3 May	Terry Shannon and Charles Payzant	Today is Story Day
4 May	Franklin Dixon	The Tower Treasure (Hardy Boys 1)
4 May	Donald Sobol	Encyclopedia Brown Finds the Clues
4 May	Donald Sobol	Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Midnight Visitor
4 May	David Schwartz	G is for Googol
6 May	Andrew Clements	Frindle
7 May	Brian Jacques	Mossflower
10 May	Dick King-Smith	Titus Rules
18 May	Rudyard Kipling	Just-So Stories
18 May	Beverly Cleary	Henry Huggins
21 May	Dugald Steer	Scary Fairies
21 May	[Ballantine Books]	Stupid Jokes for Kids
21 May	Marguerite Kohl and Frederica Young	Jokes for Children
22 May	Karen Hesse	Stowaway
25 May	Marta Ogilvie	George and Robert
25 May	Theo Gilchrist	Halfway Up the Mountain
1 June	Theoni Pappas	Fractals, Googols, and other Mathematical Tales
2 June	Karen Cushman	The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
4 June	John Agee	Palindromania
5 June	Donald Sobol	Encyclopedia Brown Carries On

Library Summer Reading program 2003

The library program this summer offered children a $1 coupon for each edge-inch of reading (up to $20). They also had to read a newspaper article and a magazine article or website for each coupon.

Summer Reading 2002

Date	Author	Title
19 June	Jennifer Johnston et al.	The Magic School Bus: The Great Shark Escape
21 June	Tomi de Paolo	Meet the Barkers
21 June	Marc Brown	What do you call a dumb bunny?
21 June	Ludwig Bemelmans	Madeline and the Bad Hat
21 June	Lillian Colón-Vilá	Salsa
21 June	Vera Rosenberry	Vera Runs Away
21 June	Beverly Cleary	Beezus and Ramona
21 June	Beverly Cleary	Ramona and her Father
30 June	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2 July	Marc Brown	Arthur's Perfect Christmas
2 July	Marc Brown	Arthur's Eyes
4 July	Lemony Snicket	The Bad Beginning
4 July	Beatrix Potter	The Tale of Peter Rabbit
4 July	Lemony Snicket	The Reptile Room
4 July	Beatrix Potter	The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
9 July	Diane Duane	So You Want to be a Wizard
9 July	Lemony Snicket	The Wide Window
9 July	Beatrix Potter	The Tale of Two Bad Mice
14 July	Franklin Dixon	The Secrets of Pirate's Hill (Hardy Boys 2)
14 July	Henry Beard and Ron Barrett	The Way Things Really Work
16 July	Eleanor Estes	Ginger Pye
19 July	Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith	Knights of the Kitchen Table (Time Warp Trio)
19 July	Jame Howe	Invasion of the Mind Swappers from Asteroid 6
20 July	Eric Knight	Lassie Come-home
23 July	Sandy Clifford	The Roquefort Gang
24 July		Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
24 July	Franklin Dixon	Secret of the Old Mill (Hardy Boys 3)
24 July	Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith	It's All Greek to Me (Time Warp Trio)
24 July	Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith	Sam Samurai (Time Warp Trio)
24 July	James Howe	Bunnicula Strikes Again!
23 July	Franklin Dixon	The Great Airport Mystery (Hardy Boys 119)
26 July	James Warhola	Uncle Andy's
26 July	Marc Brown	D.W. Thinks Big
26 July	Thomas Yezerski	Queen of the World

Second-grade reading 2003-2004

Abe's second-grade teacher, Julie Raskin, is having the kids keep book logs. Abe types them himself (using WordPerfect), and I've reformatted for HTML.

Book log for school 2002--2003

Date	Author	Title
9/12/03	Dixon	The Shore Road Mystery (Hardy Boys #6)
9/13/03	Dixon	The Short-Wave Mystery (Hardy Boys #24)
9/13/03	Dixon	The Sign of the Crooked Arrow (Hardy Boys #28)
9/17/03	Rodda	The Shifting Sands (Deltora Quest #4)
9/18/03	Rodda	Dread Mountain Deltora Quest #5)
9/19/03	Snicket	The Hostile Hospital (Unfortunate Events #8)
9/19/03	Snicket	The Carnivorous Carnival (Unfortunate Events #9)
9/19/03	Numeroff	If You Take A Mouse To School
9/21/03	Dixon	The Hooded Hawk Mystery (Hardy Boys #6)
9/22/03	Singer	Zlateh the Goat and other stories
9/22/03	Hughes	Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves
9/23/03	Grimm	King Grisly-Beard
9/23/03	Keene	The Case of the Twin Teddy Bears (Nancy Drew #116)
9/25/03	Rodda	The Maze of the Beast (Deltora Quest #6)
9/25/03	Rodda	The Valley of the Lost(Deltora Quest #7)
9/26/03	Heide&VanClief	The Hidden Box Mystery (Spotlight Club)
9/27/03	Keene	The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew #1)
9/27/03	Keene	The Bungalow Mystery (Nancy Drew #3)
9/27/03	Wyndham	Russian Tales of Fabulous Beasts and Marvels
9/29/03	Coville	Space Brat (reread)
10/1/03	Dahl	Matilda (reread)
10/2/03	Juster	The Phantom Tollbooth (reread)
10/3/03	Levy	The Case of the Mind-Reading Mommies
10/3/03	Adler	Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Circus Clown
10/3/03	Gray	The Ugly Princess and the Wise Fool
10/5/03	Levine	Ella Enchanted
10/6/03	Snicket	The Slippery Slope (Unfortunate Events #10)
10/8/03	Rodda	Rowan of Rin (Rowan #1)
10/8/03	Rodda	Rowan and the Travelers (Rowan #2)
10/10/03	Teague	The Lost and Found
10/10/03	Teague	Moog-Moog, Space Barber
10/11/03	Sherlock	Anansi the Spider Man
10/11/03	Warner	The Boxcar Children
10/13/03	Seabrooke	The Vampire in my Bathtub
10/13/03	Seidler	A Rat's Tale
10/14/03	Bellairs	The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn
10/17/03	Coombs	Dorrie and the Haunted House
10/17/03	Rodda	Return to Del (Deltora Quest #8)
10/18/03	Rodda	Rowan and the Keeper of the Crystal (Rowan #3)
10/22/03	Rodda	Cavern of the Fear (Deltora Shadowlands #1)
10/22/03	Rodda	The Isle of Illusion (Deltora Shadowlands #2)
10/24/03	Dahl	George's Marvelous Medicine
10/24/03	Coombs	Dorrie's Magic
10/24/03	Cowley	The Duck in the Gun
10/24/03	Warner	Suprise Island (Boxcar Children #2)
10/25/03	Spicer	13 Ghosts
10/30/03	Coombs	Dorrie and the Goblin
11/6/03	Howe	Return to Howliday Inn
11/7/03	Ibbotson	Journey to the River Sea
11/8/03	Rodda	Rowan and the Zebak (Rowan #4)
11/9/03	Rodda	Rowan and the Ice Creepers (Rowan #5)
11/11/03	Ibbotson	The Secret of Platform 13
11/14/03	Jones	Charmed Life (Chronicles of Chrestomanci #1)
11/16/03	Jones	The Lives of Christopher Chant (Chronicles of Chrestomanci #1)
11/20/03	Friedhoffer	Science Lab in a Supermarket
11/21/03	Marshall	Wings (A Tale of Two Chickens)
11/23/03	Warner	Mike's Mystery (Boxcar Children #5)
11/24/03	Warner	Blue Bay Mystery (Boxcar Children #6)
11/25/03	Coville	The Monsters of Morley Manor
11/26/03	Dixon	Mystery of the Desert Giant (Hardy Boys #40)
11/27/03	Dixon	The Yellow Feather Mystery (Hardy Boys #33)
11/30/03	Colfer	Artemis Fowl (A.F. #1)
12/1/03	Dahl	James and the Giant Peach (reread)
12/3/03	Colfer	Artemis Fowl the Arctic Incident (A.F. #2)
12/4/03	Davis	The Unabridged, Uncensored, Unbelievable Garfield
12/4/03	Davis	Garfield Makes it Big (G. #10 )
12/5/03	Davis	Garfield Food for Thought (G. #13)
12/5/03	Davis	Garfield Out to Lunch (G. #12)
12/5/03	Davis	Garfield Thinks Big (G. #32)
12/5/03	Davis	Garfield Weighs In (G. #4)
12/5/03	Davis	Garfield at Large (G. #1)
12/5/03	Davis	Garfield Eats His Heart Out (G. #6)
12/5/03	Davis	Garfield Takes the Cake (G. #5)
12/5/03	Lindgren	Pippi Goes on Board (P. #2)
12/6/03	Colfer	Artemis Fowl the Eternity Code (A.F. #3)
12/7/03	Lindgren	Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
12/10/03	Williams/Abrashkin	Danny Dunn Scientific Detective (D.D.)
12/10/03	Warner	Mystery Ranch (Boxcar Children #4)
12/10/03	Warner	The Woodshed Mystery (Boxcar Children #7)
12/11/03	Warner	Tree House Mystery (Boxcar Children #14)
12/13/03	Warner	Mystery Behind the Wall (Boxcar Children #17)
12/13/03	Gurney	Dinotopia
12/13/03	Konigsburg	From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
12/13/03	Clifford	The Roquefort Gang (reread)
12/14/03	Goldin	While the Candles Burn: Eight Stories for Hanukkah
12/15/03	Bellairs	The Dark Secret of Weatherend
12/16/03	Yolen	Wizard's Hall
12/17/03	King-Smith	Martin's Mice
12/18/03	Avi	Windcatcher
12/20/03	Warner	Schoolhouse Mystery (Boxcar Children #10)
12/21/30	Dahl	Charlie and the Choclate Factory (reread)
12/25/03	Merrill	The Pushcart War
12/29/03	Watling	The Arrow Over the Door
1/6/04	Nesbit	The Book of Dragons
1/9/04	Rowling	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (reread)
1/10/04	Levine	Ella Enchanted (reread)
1/10/04	Dunn	How Things Work---It's Electric
1/20/04	Rowling	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
1/21/04	Arora	"What Then Raman?"
1/21/04	Cushman	The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (reread)
1/22/04	McCully	Beautiful Warrior
1/22/04	Brown	The Bionic Bunny Show
1/24/04	DiCamillo	The Tale of Despereaux
1/25/04	Williams and Abrashkin	Danny Dunn on a Desert Island
1/30/04	Rowling	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (reread)
1/30/04	Turner	The Thief
1/30/04	Yolen	Spider Jane
1/30/04	Yolen	Spider Jane on the Move
2/2/04	Cronin	Diary of a Worm
2/2/04	Dahl and Fison	Roald Dahl's REVOLTING RECIPES
2/2/04	Say	The Bicycle Man
2/2/04	Soto	Chato and the Party Animals
2/4/04	Aiken	Arabel's Raven
2/7/04	Jansson	Comet in Mooominland
2/11/04	Stevenson and Mattern	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2/13/04	Merrill	The Girl who Loved Caterpillars
2/13/04	St. John	How to Count Like a Martian
2/13/04	Wick	Walter Wick's Optical Tricks
2/14/04	Coville	The Skull of Truth
2/14/04	Clements	Frindle (reread)
2/14/04	Friedman	The Mutt in the Iron Muzzle
2/14/04	Paterson	Bridge to Terabithia
2/14/04	Aiken	Arabel and Mortimer
2/15/04	Markle	Math Mini Mysteries
2/17/04	Aiken	Mortimer Says Nothing
2/17/04	Schwartz	On Beyond a Million An Amazing Math Journey
2/18/04	Cox	Who Shot the Sheriff?
2/22/04	Cook	First Truth
2/27/04	Tseng	White Tiger, Blue Serpent
2/29/04	Wahl	The Furious FlyCycle
3/1/04	Stewart	A Walk in Wolf Wood
3/2/04	Waters	Fanny at Chez Panisse
3/5/04	Marshall	Fox on Stage
3/5/04	Shapiro	Windwagon Smith
3/6/04	Williams and Abrashkin	Danny Dunn and the Smallifying Machine (D. D.)
3/8/04	Coville	Goblins in the Castle
3/9/04	Travers	Mary Poppins Opens the Door
3/10/04	Travers	Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane
3/10/04	Aiken	Dangerous Games
3/12/04	Lester	Tacky the Penguin (Tacky)
3/12/04	Lester	Tacky and the Emperor (Tacky)
3/14/04	Sachar	Wayside School is Falling Down (Wayside School)
3/15/04	Waugh	Space Race
3/17/04	Wright	The Pike River Phantom
3/21/04	Korman	1: The Contest (Everest)
3/22/04	Oliver	The Best Beak in Boonaroo Bay
3/23/04	Aronson	Scientific Goofs: Adventures Along the Crooked Trail to Truth
3/24/04	Korman	2: The Climb (Everest)

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Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
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