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Current "To Read" List: Running Out of Time, Dragon Rider, Cosmo, Redwall: The Legend Begins, Gregor the Overlander, Inkheart, Rocket Boys, The Power of Lucky, The Taming of the Shrew, The High King, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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• Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics by Amir D. Aczel (review)
• The Giver by Lois Lowry (review)
• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (review)
• Love That Dog by Sharon Creech (review)
• Skellig by David Almond (review)
• True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (review)
• Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien (review)

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Chapter by chapter experience
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Chapter by chapter experience

If you read 15 minutes a day you would read one-half book a week, two books each month, 24 books a year, or approximately 1000 books in your lifetime, which is equal to going to college five times, making you an authority on any subject you choose, or taking a trip around the world.
- Nancy Livingston

2008 Reading List - A Quest for 52

	Title	Author	Pages	Started	Finished	Rating
1	Snow	Uri Shulevitz	32	3 Jan	3 Jan	9
2	• Counseling With Our Councils	M. Russell Ballard	170	22 Jan 2006	18 Jan	10
3	• The Book of Three	Lloyd Alexander	224	27 Jan	31 Jan	10
4	• Skippyjon Jones	Judy Schachner	30	Jan	Jan	10
5	• The Black Cauldron	Lloyd Alexander	227	1 Feb	3 Feb	9
6	• The Castle of Llyr	Lloyd Alexander	206	5 Feb	9 Feb	10
7	• Taran Wanderer	Lloyd Alexander	272	10 Feb	14 Feb	10
8	• Be Thou An Example	Gordon B. Hinckley	139	15 Feb	26 Feb	10
9	• Story People	Brian Andreas	140	27 Feb	29 Feb	10
10	• Over Sea, Under Stone	Susan Cooper	243	April	27 May	8
11	• Dating: No Guts - No Glory	Joni Hilton	184	March	27 May	8
12	• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village	Laura Amy Schlitz	81	27 May	27 May	9
13	• The Dark is Rising	Susan Cooper	244	28 May	28 May	8
14	• Greenwitch	Susan Cooper	131	29 May	29 May	8
15	• A Time to Choose	Neal A. Maxwell	89	March	12 June	10
16	• The Grey King	Susan Cooper	165	25 June	26 June	9
17	• Silver on the Tree	Susan Cooper	274	26 June	6 July	6
18	• The Road Not Taken and Other Poems	Robert Frost	49	6 July	16 July	9
19	Baby Coyote Counts	Neecy Twinem	5	31 July	31 July	9
20	• Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience	Willliam Blake	48	17 July	4 Aug	5
21	• Wayside School is Falling Down	Louis Sachar	179	4 Aug	4 Aug	9
22	• Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School	Louis Sachar	89	4 Aug	4 Aug	8
23	• More Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School	Louis Sachar	94	4 Aug	4 Aug	8
24	• Old Mahony and the Bear Family	Wolfram Hänel	47	4 Aug	4 Aug	6
25	• Holes	Louis Sachar	233	4 Aug	6 Aug	9
26	Counting Little Geckos	Charline Profiri	22	12 Aug	12 Aug	9
27	• The Codebreaker Kids	George Edward Stanley	104	21 Aug	21 Aug	7
28	The Evolution of Desire	David M. Buss	222	27 Dec 2007	26 Aug	3
29	• Mother West Wind's Children	Thornton W. Burgess	243	7 Aug	5 Sep	8
30	Beloved Bridegroom: Finding Christ in Ancient Jewish Marriage and Family Customs	Donna B. Nielsen	162	15 June	11 Sep	10
31	• Diary of a Worm	Doreen Cronin	40	14 Sep	14 Sep	10
32	• Rain Talk	Mary Serfozo	20	15 Sep	15 Sep	8
33	• Amelia Bedilia	Peggy Parish	27	15 Sep	15 Sep	8
34	• Skippyjon Jones in the Dog-House	Judy Schachner	30	15 Sep	15 Sep	8
35	• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	Judith Viorst	28	15 Sep	15 Sep	8
36	• The Magic School Bus Gets Programmed: A Book About Computers	Joanna Cole	30	15 Sep	15 Sep	10
37	• Guess Who Didn't Take a Nap	Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott	128	17 Sep	18 Sep	8
38	• The Higher Power of Lucky	Susan Patron	134	14 Sep	22 Sep	9
39	Crispin at the Edge of the World	Avi	234	29 Sep	29 Sep	9
40	Shakespeare Bats Cleanup	Ron Koertge	116	29 Sep	30 Sep	10
41	• How We Think	John Dewey	224	1 Feb	30 Sep	10
42	• Cosmo	Carl Sagan	324	10 Aug 2007	16 Oct	9
43	• Trusting Jesus	Jeffrey R. Holland	178	3 Oct	18 Oct	10
44	• A History of Pi	Petr Beckmann	189	21 Oct	5 Nov	9
45	• Lectures on Faith	(Joseph Smith)	78	19 Oct	11 Nov	10
46	• The New Testament	Prophets	404	9 Mar	21 Dec	10
47	How to Talk to Girls	Alec Greven	46	22 Dec	22 Dec	10
48	Understanding Peer Influences on Children	Mitchell J. Prinstein & Kenneth A. Dodge	244	26 Aug	23 Dec	9
49	• The Invention of Hugo Cabret	Brian Selznick	530	25 Dec	25 Dec	10
50	• Zen Shorts	Jon J. Muth	40	26 Dec	26 Dec	9
51	• The Old Testament	Prophets	1184	Feb	30 Dec	10
52	• The High King	Lloyd Alexander	304	27 Dec	30 Dec	10
53	• Notwithstanding My Weakness	Neal A. Maxwell	124	12 Nov	31 Dec	10
54	• The Tales of Beedle the Bard	J. K. Rowling	107	31 Dec	31 Dec	10

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