Favorite Reads of 2012--Mid Year Report

Most of these are recent publications; some I have had the privilege to read as Advance Reader's Copies... and let me tell you, August and September are going to be GREAT months if you need to buy something at the bookstore ☺. If I've reviewed them, I've linked to my review. The ones I haven't reviewed yet, I hope to do soon. (If you'd like to see lists/short reviews of everything I read--including the ones I don't bother reviewing on LiterariTea, simply "follow" me or be a "friend" on goodreads--click on the "g" icon in the right margin.) Following my friend Brandy's idea, the * indicates books that are definitely in line for my top 10 regardless of what else I read this year.

• Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead (middle grades; coming out August)*
• Lulu and the Duck in the Park by Hilary McKay (early chapter book; coming out in the U. S. in August)*
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (Young Adult; published in May)*
• The Drowned Vault by N. D. Wilson (book #2 in Ashtown Burials series; coming out in September)*
• Ordinary Magic by Caitlen Rubino-Bradway (middle grades; published in May)
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (middle grades)
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (Young Adult)
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (children's novel)*
• Stuck by Oliver Jeffers (picture book)
• Water Sings Blue by Kate Coombs (picture book of poetry)
• And Then It's Spring by Erin Stead (picture book)*
• Wonder by R. J. Palacio (middle grades; published in January)
• The One and Only Ivan by Katharine Applegate (children's novel/middle grades; published this year)
• Crow by Barbara Wright (middle grades; published spring)
• The Runaway Princess by Kate Coombs (children's novels/middle grades)
• My Friend the Enemy by Janie Cheaney (middle grades)
• Mouse and Mole books by Wong Herbert Yee (early readers)
• Half Magic by Edward Eager (children's novel)