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Readathon Update

Okay, started at 7:38 a.m. Friday. It’s now 7:35 p.m. and so far I have read 8 books and only "Meh’d" one of them. You’ll have to wait for the full blogs to see which it was and what I thought of the other 7:
9780805080834 Readathon UpdateItch by Michelle D. Kwasney 236 pages from Henry Holt9780061148965 Readathon Update

My Mother The Cheerleader by Robert Sharenow 288 pages Laura Geringer Books/imprint of HarperCollins

The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones by Helen DJcompweb Readathon UpdateHemphill 223 pages Front Street/imprint of Boyds Mills Press, Inc. (BookMoot has a great review here)
(check out theYouTube Video Trailer for this book)

9780061229626 Readathon Update

Ever by Gail Carson Levine 246 pages HarperCollins

9780805081619 Readathon Update

Melvin Beederman Superhero Attack of the Valley Girls by Greg Trine 138 pages Henry Holt

Listening for Crickets by David Gifaldi 178 pages Henry Holt 9780805073850 Readathon Update

1000hills Readathon UpdateOver a Thousand Hills I Walk With You by Hanna Jansen; translated by Elizabeth D. Crawford 332 pages Carolrhoda Books/imprint of Lerner Books

9780805072020 Readathon UpdateKeeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith with illustrations by E. B. Lewis 73 pages Henry Holt

Yikes, I took a dinner break so I’d better get back to reading. I will be blogging about all of these. 

In fact, the waitress at O’Charley’s probably expressed it best when I described to her some of these books. She said, "O.M.G! I’ve gotta get me those books soon!"

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