Forthcoming Reviews

I originally did this as a sticky post called “Working Through the Backlog,” but after it was sticky for about six months, I realized that I would always have a backlog. But I didn’t want to get rid of it, because it serves as a sort of “to-do” list for me. So I decided to recreate it as a page and keep it a more or less permanent feature of this blog.

The titles are linked to their page on Amazon, so you can see what the book is about. This list is in no particular order.If you are excited about seeing a review about a particular book, then comment this page, and I’ll move it to the top of my to-write list.

• The Heart of a Chief by Joseph Bruchac
• Touching Spirit Bear and Countdown by Ben Mikaelsen
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
• Downtown Boy by Juan Felipe Herrera
• I Am Not Joey Pigza by Jack Gantos
• Slam by Nick Hornby
• The Circuit by Francisco Jiménez
• Breaking Through by Francisco Jiménez
• Reaching Out by Francisco Jiménez
• Alligator Bayou by Donna Jo Napoli
• Beast by Donna Jo Napoli
• Stones in Water by Donna Jo Napoli (along with the sequel, Fire in the Hills)
• The Magic Circle by Donna Jo Napoli
• The Amazing Life of Birds: The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech by Gary Paulsen
• Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
• How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
• Just in Case by Meg Rosoff
• What I Was by Meg Rosoff
• Straw into Gold by Gary D. Schmidt
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
• Spud by John Van de Ruit
• Teen Angst? Naaah… by Ned Vizinni
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
• A Step from Heaven by An Na
• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• The Last Invisible Boy by Evan Kuhlman
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
• Mexican Whiteboy by Matt de la Peña
• Indian Shoes by Cynthia Leitich Smith
• Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce
• A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
• The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature
• Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
• Does My Head Look Big in This? By Randa Abdel-Fattah
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Greg Kinney
• The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt
• King of the Mild Frontier by Chris Crutcher
• Tales from Outer Suburbia and The Arrival by Shaun Tan