So behind it's not even funny!

Definitely Dead, by Charlaine Harris

I finally got back to the Sookie Stackhouse books! Loved this one, and LOVED the face that Sookie's new love interest is a tiger! Only beef with it: Sookie keeps talking about her cousin dying, her cousin WHO WAS A VAMPIRE. That's not mentioned in the last book. Or the book before that. I got on wiki to see if I was trying to read the books out of order again, but nope, I was on track. The cousin dies in a short story that was published between books! I found this out by reading some dude's Amazon.com review of this book, and HE thought it was retarded as well. Harris should have either put that short story IN this book, or at least had a preface explaining the events that we missed.

Lawn Boy, by Gary Paulsen

This is a short and snappy book about a kid with a mower. I recommend it for all ages, but specifically boys 10-12.

The Adoration of Jenna Fox, by Mary E. Pearson

I liked it, but not as much as I thought I would. When I read Still Alice, I got on the internet IMMEDIATELY. I had a need to gush about that book for days! Jenna Fox is good, but it's not that WOW. I like that it makes you ask yourself questions about the afterlife, what makes you human, what constitutes a soul.

The Boy Who Dared, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Historical fiction based on the true story of a German boy who was not a Nazi. I think Bartoletti spent too much time making Helmuth, the main character, into such a hero. I would have liked this book to be more nonfiction than fiction. She idolized him, and it was distracting. I love that I have found so many books this past year set from the German point of view, though. In school when you learn about WWII, Nazis and Germans are one and the same, but I'm finding these books, all these supposedly true accounts, of Germans who did NOT hate Jews, but who either trusted their government too much, or, in some cases, knew that speaking out would end in torture and execution.