School Booktalks: The List - Part 2

Here's a complete list of all the books I took on my summer reading visits to the elementary schools!

• The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger. Lots of good responses on this one, it's a fun story and has an intruiging cover. Good read-alike for Wimpy Kid fans.
• Dragonbreath by Ursula Vernon. Everybody loves Dragonbreath. There are always shrieks of joy when I tell them there's more than one!
• Storm Chaser by Chris Platt. A good new horse story for older readers
• Reef of Death by Paul Zindel. I took this one to the middle school also. This is an old story, but freaky good!
• Battle of the red hot pepper weenies by David Lubar. Very grabby cover - everyone wanted to know about this one.
• Theodosia and the serpents of chaos. Percy Jackson meets Skulduggery Pleasant and becomes a Victorian girl who sleeps in a sarcophagus.
• Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy. He's a living, breathing, fire-throwing skeleton...and he's the good guy!
• Sparky by Beverly Gherman. Finally, a biography of Charles Schulz!
• Geronimo Stilton: Following the Trail of Marco Polo. Geronimo Stilton comics!
• Pigs to the rescue by John Himmelman. I love this picturebook - it's really better for preschool, but kindergarteners love it too.
• Cyclist Bikelist by Laura Robinson. The ultimate bike book
• Shrek! by William Steig. New anniversary edition!
• Chester's Masterpiece by Melanie Watt. New Chester picturebook!
• Face to face with lions by Berly Joubert. This is a gorgeous series - we just got Lions, Manatees, and Butterflies.
• Bone Handbook by Jeff Smith. To get really serious fans through the summer - comics, pictures, trivia, and more.
• Star Wars Adventures: Luke Skywalker and teh Treasure of the Dragonsnakes. One of my new Star Wars comics series.
• The Buddy Files: The case of the lost boy by Dori Butler. A new beginning chapter series with a dog detective. Really, really good.
• Cosmic by Frank Boyce. A boy pretends to be an adult and accidentally goes to the moon. Everyone wanted to know about this one!
• Fizzy Whiz Kid by Maiya Williams. Giant cockroaches, a new school, and instant fame.
• Boys are dogs by Leslie Margolis. One of my best booktalks ever!
• Bad to the bone by Lucy Nolan. The Down Girl and Sit beginning chapter series is hilarious!
• My Cousin the Alien by Pamela Service. Another one of my best booktalks and one kids always want to hear about. A great beginning chapter series.
• Smells like dog by Suzanne Selfors. Haven't got a really good booktalk for this one yet, maybe after I get around to actually reading it...
• Wolverine: Worst Day Ever by Barry Lyga. Text and pictures and comics!
• Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Adventure. New manga series - lots of kids were enthusiastic about Pokemon, but doubtful about the "backwards" manga.
• Attack of the fluffy bunnies by Andrea Beatty. Hilarious. Just hilarious. Perfect summer reading.
• My Best Frenemy by Julie Bowe. I haven't got a really good booktalk for this one yet, but it seems to go fine just on the cover. I have ambitions to have a real bookclub and have Julie Bowe visit us someday....
• Smile by Raina Telgemeier. Some kids had already read this and told ME how good it was!
• Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce. Wimpy Kid with a different cover.
• Violet Wings by Victoria Hanley. I need a better booktalk for this one.
• I am going! by Mo Willems. New Elephant and Piggie!
• Toy Breakers by Geoffrey Hayes
• The big fat cow who goes kapow!
• Freak Out! by Ginjer Clarke. All three of these are easy readers. Very popular.
• Marsupials by Nic Bishop. Any book featuring an animal whose name is "Boodie" is going to be popular.
• Saving the ghost of the mountain by Sy Montgomery. Great Scientists in the Field book.
• Whale Scientist by Peter Lourie. Another winner
• Shark vs. Train by Chris Barton. Even older kids wanted to read this picturebook
• Lanie by Jane Kurtz New American Girl books
• Olympians: Zeus by George O'Connor. I gotta hurry up and buy the rest of this nonfiction comic series about the Greek gods.
• I love to draw dogs by Jennifer Lipsey
• Made by me by Jane Bull
• Never Smile at a monkey by Steve Jenkins
• Guinea PI: Hamster and Cheese by Colleen af Venable. Charming little comic, lots of kids have fallen in love with it already.
• Graphic Dinosaurs: Stegosaurus by Gary Jeffrey. Great series by PowerKids Press.
• Camp Out by Lynn Brunelle. The ultimate camping book
• The Book that eats people by John Perry. Are your fingers clean?

Books no one asked about. Nothing wrong with them, there just wasn't time or they didn't get a good look at them.

• The brain finds a leg by Martin Chatterton. Like Hoot only weirder and funnier.
• Crunch by Leslie Connor
• Alice's World Record by Tim Kennemore
• My Rotten Life by David Lubar. Fifth grade zombie!
• Spellbinder by Helen Stringer. Harry Potter meets ghosts.
• Frog Scientist by Pamela Turner
• The wonder book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. The new Shel Silverstein.
• Fortune's Magic Farm by Suzanne Selfors. Everybody wanted to know about this one last year - I guess they all remember it!