INFO 5420: A Complete List of Titles Reviewed

FIRST GROUP
Informational Book: 
Actual Size by Steve Jenkins

Biography: 
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Picture Books / Easy Readers:
The Book with No Pictures by B. J. Novak
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Go, Dog. Go! by P. D. Eastman

Realistic Fiction:
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 

Inspirational / Religious:
The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister, translated by J. Alison James

Mystery / Suspense:
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Paper Towns by John Green

Multicultural & International: 
Islandborn by Junot Diaz, illustrated by Leo Espinosa

Romance & Poetry: 
The Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, illustrated by Garth Williams
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

Fantasy: 
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty

SECOND GROUP
Graphic Novels: 
El Deafo by Cece Bell
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

Awards: 
The Little Red Fort by Brenda Maier, illustrated by Sonia Sanchez (TLA 2x2 Award)
Saving Winslow by Sharon Creech (TLA Texas Bluebonnet Award)
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall (Caldecott Medal Winner)
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey (Caldecott Honor Book)
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Newbery Medal Winner)
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater, illustrated by Robert Lawson (Newbery Honor Book)
In the Shadow of the Sun by Anne Sibley O'Brien (TLA Lone Star Award)
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (TLA Tayshas Award)
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (Coretta Scott King Award Winner)

LGBTQIA+:
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, illustrated by Henry Cole

Science Fiction: 
Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Horror: 
The Witches by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake

Historical Fiction: 
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi 


Note: 
Throughout these thirty blog posts, I referred to two sources, one for the evaluation section and the second for the reader response questions. Below are the citations for these sources.

Tunnell, M. O., Jacobs, J. S., Young, T. A., & Bryan, G. (2016). Children's literature, briefly (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.

Williamson, O. M. (n.d.) How to write a reaction paper or reader response. Retrieved from www.utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/engl0310link/readerresponse.htm