August Reads

August was a slower month for programs, but a busy month for reading. I read 110 books!  Granted a lot were picture books, but there were several audiobooks and chapter books as well.  Here are the books I completed during August:

1. Here Comes Santa Claus by Autry, Gene
2. I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas by Rox, John
3. Saving Grace by Gayle, Catherine
4. Twice a Rake by Gayle, Catherine
5. Young Fredle by Voigt, Cynthia
6. Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis
7. Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) by Macy, Sue
8. Good Boy, Fergus! by Shannon, David
9. Lucky Pennies and Hot Chocolate by Shields, Carol Diggory
10. Perfect Pumpkin Pie by Cazet, Denys
11. Carver: A Life in Poems by Nelson, Marilyn
12. The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles by Janeczko, Paul B.
13. Sparks: The Epic, Completely True Blue, (Almost) Holy Quest of Debbie by Adams, S.J.
14. Hurt Go Happy by Rorby, Ginny
15. Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition by Blumenthal, Karen
16. Lightship by Floca, Brian
17. The Elephant Scientist by O'Connell, Caitlin 
18. Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Schanzer, Rosalyn
19. Garmann's Summer by Hole, Stian
20. I Have a Sister--My Sister Is Deaf by Peterson, Jeanne Whitehouse 
21. Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein by Rubin, Susan G.
22. Wonderstruck by Selznick, Brian
23. We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Levinson, Cynthia           
24. Bird & Squirrel on the Run by Burks, James
25. Rose Blanche by Innocenti, Roberto
26. Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Hamilton, Virginia
27. Monstrous Beauty by Fama, Elizabeth
28. And Red Galoshes: A Story About a Rainy Day by Millard, Glenda
29. The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Hamilton, Virginia
30. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Ness, Patrick
31. 26 Fairmount Avenue by dePaola, Tomie
32. Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Nelson, Kadir
33. Neeny Coming, Neeny Going by English, Karen
34. Grandmama's Joy by Greenfield, Eloise
35. Something on My Mind by Grimes, Nikki
36. Daydreamers by Greenfield, Eloise
37. Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom by Evans, Shane W.
38. The ABC Bunny by Gág, Wanda
39. Frog and Toad Together (Frog and Toad, #2) by Lobel, Arnold
40. Siege and Storm (The Grisha, #2) by Bardugo, Leigh
41. Cornrows by Yarbrough, Camille
42. Black Child by Magubane, Peter
43. Visiting Langston by Perdomo, Willie
44. Little Eight John by Wahl, Jan
45. The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth by Anderson, David A.
46. Half a Moon and One Whole Star by Dragonwagon, Crescent
47. Mother Crocodile by Diop, Birago
48. My Mama Needs Me by Walter, Mildred Pitts
49. I Have a Dream by Jr., Martin Luther King
50. Aïda by Price, Leontyne
51. I See the Rhythm by Igus, Toyomi
52. Sukey and the Mermaid by Souci, Robert D. San
53. Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum by Bryan, Ashley
54. The Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Tales by Bryan, Ashley
55. The Hunterman and the Crocodile by Diakité, Baba Wagué
56. Meet Danitra Brown by Grimes, Nikki
57. Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry by Bryan, Ashley
58. The Invisible Hunters/Los cazadores invisibles by Sam, Joe
59. What a Morning!: The Christmas Story in a Black Spiritual by Langstaff, John
60. C.L.O.U.D.S by Cummings, Pat
61. The Bat Boy and His Violin by Curtis, Gavin
62. Running the Road to ABC by Lauture, Denize
63. Just Us Women by Caines, Jeannette Franklin
64. Ray Charles by Mathis, Sharon Bell
65. I Have Heard of a Land by Thomas, Joyce Carol
66. Ellen's Broom by Lyons, Kelly Starling
67. All the Colors of the Race by Adoff, Arnold
68. I'm Going to Sing: Black American Spirituals by Bryan, Ashley
69. The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children by Adedjouma, Davida
70. The Singing Man: Adapted from a West African Folktale by Medearis, Angela Shelf
71. Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan by Williams, Mary
72. The Patchwork Quilt by Flournoy, Valerie
73. Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men by Harper, Molly
74. Africa Dream by Greenfield, Eloise
75. Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring by Greenberg, Jan
76. Under the Sunday Tree by Greenfield, Eloise             
77. The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo by Feelings, Tom       
78. In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers by Steptoe, Javaka
79. Soul Looks Back in Wonder by Feelings, Tom              
80. Uncle Jed's Barber Shop by Mitchell, Margaree King               
81. The Creation by Ransome, James
82. Nathaniel Talking by Greenfield, Eloise         
83. Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea by Thomas, Joyce Carol
84. Beautiful Blackbird by Bryan, Ashley
85. All Night, All Day: A Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals by Bryan, Ashley
86. Night on Neighborhood Street by Greenfield, Eloise
87. Count on Your Fingers African Style by Zaslavsky, Claudia
88. I, Too, Am America by Hughes, Langston
89. Eleanor & Park by Rowell, Rainbow
90. The People Could Fly: The Picture Book by Hamilton, Virginia
91. Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Grimes, Nikki
92. Only Passing Through The Story of Sojourner Truth by Rockwell, Anne F.      
93. Storm in the Night by Stolz, Mary
94. Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald
95. Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Schroeder, Alan
96. My Rows and Piles of Coins by Mollel, Tololwa M.
97. In the Time of the Drums by Siegelson, Kim L.
98. Goin' Someplace Special by McKissack, Patricia C.
99. Almost to Freedom by Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux
100. Tea Rex by Idle, Molly
101. The Secret Olivia Told Me by Joy, N.
102. My People by Hughes, Langston
103. H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination by Myers, Christopher
104. Some Parts Are Not for Sharing by Federico, Julie K.
105. Happy Birdday, Tacky! by Lester, Helen
106. Tiger in My Soup by Sheth, Kashmira
107. Monkey Ono by Phillipps, J.C.
108. Lazy Daisy, Cranky Frankie: Bedtime on the Farm by Jordan, Mary Ellen
109. Chasing Butterflies by Toews, Harry
110. Miracle Mud: Lena Blackburne and the Secret Mud That Changed Baseball by Kelly, David A.