I finished all the other books that I was in the middle of reading...then stocked up on some new ones.
So here's my updated list of books read this summer:
2001: A Year Down Yonder- Peck (my favorite so far)
1998: Out of the Dust-
Hesse
1981: Jacob Have I Loved- Paterson
1978: Bridge to Terabithia-
Paterson
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry- Taylor
1975: M.C. Higgins,
the Great- Hamilton
1957: Miracles on Maple Hill- Sorenson
1963: A Wrinkle in Time- L'Engle
1953:
Secret of the Andes- Clark
1960: Onion John- Krumgold
All of a Kind Family
All of a Kind Family Downtown
The Penderwicks
2010: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
1997: The View From Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg (next favorite...uses flashback and multiple views of the same situation)
Fair Weather by Richard Peck
The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts by Richard Peck
1990: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
A Wind in the Door by L'Engle
Still working on these:
2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
1971: Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
1951: Ginger Pye by Estes
A Swiftly Tilted Planet by L'Engle