Archive Of My #BookADay and Book Recommendation Posts
(Shortlink: https://debbieohi.link/bookaday)
This is a list of some of the books I've read or reread in Donalyn Miller's Annual Book-A-Day Challenge and my book recommendations. You can read why/how I use Donalyn's #BookADay.
You can also browse some of my #BookADay collages on Padlet, Flickr, YouTube and Pinterest, plus browse my #BookADay posts on Twitter. In an effort to have all of these posts in ONE place, I'm gradually uploading my archives to my new Instagram Book Journal!
-- Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Links to some of my #BookADay reads below (some may be missing, sorry)
2021
Baseballogy: Supercool Facts You Never Knew - by Kevin Sylvester (Annick).
Turtle In A Tree - by Neesha Hudson (Dial).
A Place To Belong - by Cynthia Kadohata, illustrated by Julia Kuo (Atheneum/Ciatlyn Dlouhy Books)
The Player - by Paul J. Coccia (Lorimer)
Everyone's Sleepy But The Baby - by Tracy C. Gold and Adele Dafflon (Familius LLC)
The Sun Will Come Out - by Joanne Levy (Orca Books).
2020
Flash and Gleam - by Sue Fleiss and Khoa Le (Lerner Books).
Amal Unbound - by Aisha Saeed (Penguin Random House).
Prairie Lotus - by Linda Sue Park (HMH Kids).
Amy Wu And The Perfect Bao - by Kat Zhang and Charlene Draws (Simon & Schuster Children's).
Soup Day - by Melissa Iwai (Henry Holt).
My Little Sister and Me - by Maple Lam (HarperCollins Children's Books).
Diana: Princess Of The Amazons - by Shannon & Dean Hale, Victoria Ying (DC Zoom).
2019
Just Lucky - by Melanie Florence (Second Story Press).
The Misadventures Of Salem Hyde: Spelling Trouble - by Frank Cammuso (Amulet Paperbacks).
To The Stars: The First American Woman To Walk In Space - by Carmella Van Vleet, Dr. Kathy Sullivan and Nicole Wong (Charlesbridge).
Maud: A Novel Inspired By The Life Of L.M. Montgomery - by Melanie Fishbane (Penguin Teen).
No Help Wanted! - by Ruth O. (Scholastic Canada).
The Season Of Styx Malone - by Kekla Magoon (Wendy Lamb Books).
Breakout - by Kate Messner, with illustrations by Ellen Lindner (Bloomsbury).
The Very Last Castle - by Travis Jonker and Mark Pett (Abrams).
Embrace The Chicken - by Mahtab Narsimhan (Orca Currents).
2018
The Swan Riders - by Erin Bow (sequel to The Scorpion Rules, McElderry Books from Simon & Schuster).
Falcon Wild - by Terry Lynn Johnson (Charlesbridge).
My Beautiful Birds - by Suzanne Del Rizzo (Pajama Press).
Hedgehog Needs A Hug - by Jen Betton (G.P. Putnam's Sons).
Counting Birds: The Idea That Helped Save Our Feathered Friends - by Heidi Stemple & Clover Robin (Seagrass Press).
Enginerds - by Jarrett Lerner (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster).
Weave A Circle Round - by Kari Maaren (Tor).
Hearts Unbroken - by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Candlewick).
Raw Talent - by Jocelyn Shipley (Orca Book Publishers).
Becoming Madeleine - by Léna Roy and Charlotte Jones Voiklis (FSG).
How To Code A Sandcastle - by Josh Funk and Sara Palacios (Viking/Penguin)
Fairy Spell: How Two Girls Convinced The World That Fairies Are Real - by Marc Tyler Nobleman and Eliza Wheeler (Clarion/HMH).
Tangled Planet - by Kate Blair (Dancing Cat Books/Cormorant)
The Winnowing - by Vikki VanSickle (Scholastic Canada Ltd)
2017
The Way To Bea - by Kat Yeh (Little Brown For Young Readers)
Tumble & Blue - by Cassie Beasley (Penguin Young Readers, 2017)
It's Not Jack and the Beanstalk - by Josh Funk & Edwardian Taylor (Two Lions, 2017)
Just A Normal Tuesday - by Kim Turrisi (Kids Can Press, 2017)
Bite Into Bloodsuckers - by Kari-Lynn Winters and Ishta Mercurio (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2015)
Crankenstein - by Samantha Berger and Dan Santat (Little, Brown Books For Young Readers, 2013)
Soup Day - by Melissa Iwai (Holt Books For Young Readers, 2010).
The Explorers: The Door In The Alley - by Adrienne Kress (Delacorte/Random House, 2017).
Picture the Sky - by Barbara Reid (Scholastic Canada, 2017).
The Hate You Give - by Angie Thomas (Balzer & Bray).
Shark Lady - by Jess Keating and Marta Álvarez Miguéns (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky).
The Peculiar Incident On Shady Street - by Lindsay Currie (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, 2017).
Two Times A Traitor - by Karen Bass (Pajama Press, 2017).
The Jumbies - by Tracey Baptiste (Algonquin Young Readers, 2017).
A Rambler Steals Home - by Carter Higgins (HMH Books For Young Readers, 2017).
By The Time You Read This - by Jennifer Lanthier and Patricia Storms (Clockwise Press, 2017).
Orphan Island - by Laurel Snyder (Walden Pond Press / HarperCollins, 2017).
You're Never Weird On The Internet (Almost): A Memoir - by Felicia Day (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2016).
The Seventh Wish - by Kate Messner (Bloomsbury Children's, 2016).
We Are All Made Of Molecules - by Susin Nielsen (Tundra Books, 2015).
Princess Juniper Of The Hourglass - by Ammi-Joan Paquette (Penguin Random House, 2016).
Counting Thyme - by Melanie Conklin (Penguin Young Readers, 2016).
The Pearl Thief - by Elizabeth Wein (Disney Hyperion / Bloomsbury UK, Doubleday Canada, 2017).
Red - by Liesl Shurtliff (Knopf Books For Young Readers, 2017).
Speechless - by Jennifer Mook-Sang (Scholastic Canada, 2015).
If I Had A Gryphon - by Vikki Vansickle and Cale Atkinson (Tundra Books).
Amina's Voice - by Hena Khan (Simon & Schuster Children's/Salaam Reads, 2017).
Gabby - by Joyce Grant & Jan Dolby (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2012).
Gertie's Leap To Greatness - by Kate Beasley, illustrated by Jillian Tamaki (Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR).
The Case Of The Stinky Stench - by Josh Funk & Brendan Kearney (Sterling, 2017).
The Princess and the Page - by Christina Farley (Scholastic, 2017).
Prudence The Part-Time Cow - by Jody Jensen Shaffer and Stephanie Laberis (Holt, 2017).
I Am Canada - by Heather Patterson, Jeremy Tankard, Ruth Ohi, Barbara Reid, Jon Klassen, Marie-Louise Gay, Danielle Daniel, Ashley Spires, Geneviève Côté, Cale Atkinson, Doretta Groenendyk, Qin Leng, Eva Campbell and Irene Luxbacher (Scholastic Canada, 2017).
My "We Recommend" post for the Toronto Public Library
2016
MiNRS 2 - by Kevin Sylvester (Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster, 2016).
This Is our Baby, Born Today - by Varsha Bajaj and Eliza Wheeler (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin, 2016).
How To Outfox Your Friends When You Don't Have A Clue - by Jess Keating (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2015).
Red, White and Boom! - by Lee Wardlaw and Huy Voun Lee (Henry Holt and Co BYR, 2012)
Some Bugs - by Angela DiTerlizzi and Brendan Wenzel (Beach Lane/S&S, 2014).
Beware That Girl - by Teresa Toten (Doubleday Canada, 2016).
Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast - by Josh Funk (Sterling Publishing, 2015)
The Game Of Love and Death - by Martha Brockenbrough (Arthur A. Levine, 2015).
Daughter Of Smoke & Bone - by Laini Taylor (Little, Brown, 2011)
The First Last Day - by Dorian Cirrone (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, 2016)
Draw The Line - by Laurent Linn (Simon & Schuster, 2016).
Malaika's Costume - by Nadia L. Hohn and Irene Luxbacher (Groundwood, 2016).
My Life Before Me - by Norah McClintock (Orca Books, 2015)
I Love Cake - by Tammi Sauer and Angie Rozelaar (Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, 2016).
Navel Gazing - by Michael Ian Black (Gallery Books/S&S, 2016)
The Night Gardener -by The Fan Brothers (Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2016).
The Bus Ride by Marianne Dubuc (Kids Can Press, 2015).
Baseballogy - by Kevin Sylvester (Annick Press, 2015).
Oh No, Astro! - by Matt Roeser and Brad Woodard (Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2016).
The Wild Robot - written by Peter Brown (Little, Brown Books For Young Readers, 2016).
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2015
Jan. 19, 2015: Uncle Montague's Tales Of Terror - written by Chris Priestley, illustrated by David Roberts (Bloomsbury US, 2011).
May 20, 2015: Now That You're Here - by Amy K. Nichols (Knopf Books For Young Readers, 2014).
May 21, 2015: Wherever You Go - by Pat Zietlow Miller and Eliza Wheeler (Little, Brown Books For Young Readers, 2015).
May 22, 2015: The Yeti Files: Meet The Bigfeet - by Kevin Sherry (Scholastic, 2014).
May 23, 2015: You Nest Here With Me - by Jane Yolen, Heidi Stemple and Melissa Sweet (Boyds Mill Press, 2015).
May 25, 2015: Fox And Squirrel Make A Friend - by Ruth Ohi (Scholastic Canada, 2015).
May 26, 2015: Won Ton and Chopstick - by Lee Wardlaw and Eugene Yelchin (Henry Holt, 2015).
May 27, 2015: Louise Loves Art - by Kelly Light (Balzer & Bray, 2014).
May 28, 2015: Shadow Chasers - by Elly MacKay (Running Press, 2014).
May 29, 2015: Faraway Friends - by Russ Cox (Sky Pony Press, 2015).
May 30, 2015: Nancy Knows - by Cybele Young (Tundra Books, 2014).
June 1st, 2015: Mr. Zinger's Hat - by Cary Faga and Dusan Petricic (Tundra Books, 2012).
June 2nd, 2015: This One Summer - by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki (Groundwood, 204).
June 3rd, 2015: The Whale In My Swimming Pool - by Joyce Wan (Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015).
June 5, 2015: City Of Savages - by Lee Kelly (Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2015).
June 7, 2015: A Penguin Named Patience - by Suzanne Lewis & Lisa Anchin (Sleeping Bear Press, 2015).
June 8, 2015: Punch Like A Girl - by Karen Krossing (Orca Books, 2015).
June 10, 2015: The Pirate and the Penguin - by Patricia Storms (Owlkids, 2009).
June 11, 2015: Crafty Chloe, Dress-Up Mess-up - by Kelly DiPucchio and Heather Ross (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster, 2013).
June 13, 2015: The Thickety: A Path Begins - by J.A. White, illustrated by Andrea Offermann (Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, 2014).
June 16, 2015: The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, Sept.8/2015).
June 17, 2015: My Blue Is Happy by Jessica Young and Catia Chien (Candlewick, 2013).
June 18, 2015: Families, Families, Families by Suzanne Lang and Max Lang (Random House Children's, 2015).
June 27, 2015: Totally Tardy Marty by Erica Perl and Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Abrams Books, July/2015).
June 29, 2015: I Love You, Animally by Lynn Parish Sutton and Hazel Mitchell (Kane Miller, 2015).
July 4, 2015: MiNRS by Kevin Sylvester (Margaret K. McElderry, Sept/2015).
July 11, 2015: Koala Hospital by Suzi Eszterhas (Owlkids Books, Oct/2015).
July 12, 2015: Hiccupotomus by Aaron Zenz (Two Lions, 2005).
July 13, 2015: Doors In The Air by David Weale and Pierre Pratt (Orca Book Publishers, 2012).
July 14, 2015: Compliance by Maureen McGowan (Skypscape, 2013).
July 15, 2015: Space Boy And His Dog by Dian Curtis Regan and Robert Neubecker (Boyds Mill Press, 2015).
July 16, 2015: Nana In The City by Lauren Castillo (Clarion/HMH, 2014).
July 20, 2015: El Deafo by Cece Bell (Abrams, 2014).
July 21, 2015: Connecting Dots by Sharon Jennings (Second Story Press, 2015).
July 22, 2015: The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch (Volume One: At The Edge Of Empire) by Daniel Kraus (Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, Oct/2015).
July 23, 2015: Two Girls Want A Puppy by Ryan and Evil Cordell, and Maple Lam (HarperCollins Children's, 2015).
July 24, 2015: Glory (#2 in The Dust Chronicles) by Maureen McGowan (Skyscape, 2014).
July 25, 2015: Feral Nights (#1 in The Feral Series) by Cynthia Leititch Smith (Candlewick, 2013).
July 26, 2015: The Scorch Trials (#2 in Maze Runner series) by James Dashner (Delacorte, 2011).
July 27, 2015: Wait by Antoinette Portis (Roaring Brook, 2015).
July 28, 2015: How To Outrun A Crocodile When Your Shoes Are Untied by Jess Keating (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2014).
July 29, 2015: Dead And Gone (Book #9 of Sookie Stackhouse series) by Charlaine Harris (Ace, 2010).
July 30, 2015: All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen and Jory John (Chronicle, 2010).
July 31, 2015: The Dead & The Gone (Book #2 in The Last Survivors series) by Susan Beth Pfeffer - (HMH Books For Young Readers, 2008).
Aug. 1, 2015: Someday by Alison McGhee and Peter Reynolds (Atheneum/S&S, 2007).
Aug. 2, 2015: Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley and Diana Sudyka (Dial Books For Young Readers, 2015).
Aug. 3, 2015: Above by Leah Bobet (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Canada, 2012).
Aug. 4, 2015: The Insecto-Files by Helaine Becker and Claudia Davila (Owlkids, 2009).
Aug. 5, 2015: How To Catch A Star by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins, 2004).
Aug. 6, 2015: I Must Have Bobo by Eileen and Marc Rosenthal (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster, 2011).
Aug. 9, 2015: Ninja Bunny by Jennifer Gray Olson (Afred A. Knopf/Random House Children's, 2015).
Aug. 10, 2015: Peg Leg Peke by Brie Spangler (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008).
Aug. 14, 2015: Z Is For Moose by Kelly Bingham and Paul O. Zelinsky (Greenwillow/HarperCollins, 2012).
Aug. 25, 2015: Sisters by Raina Telgemeier (Graphix/Scholastic, 2014).
Aug. 30, 2015: Outstanding In The Rain by Frank Viva (Tundra Books, 2015).
Aug. 31, 2015: The Infinite Sea (The 5th Wave series, #2) by Rick Yancey (Penguin Putnam Juvenile, 2014).
Aug. 2, 2015: Six by M. M. Vaughan (Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster, 2015).
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2014
June 10, 2014: How To Cheer Up Dad - written & illustrated by Fred Koehler (Dial/Penguin, 2014)
June 11, 2014: A Good Trade - written by Alma Fullerton, illustrated by Karen Patkau (Pajama Press, 2012)
June 12, 2014: Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told In Haiku - written by Lee Wardlaw, illustrated by Eugene Yelchin (Henry Holt, 2011)
June 13, 2014: I Must Have Bobo! - written by Eileen Rosenthal, illustrated by Marc Rosenthal (Atheneum Books For Young Readers, 2011).
June 14, 2014: Behemoth (2nd in Leviathan series) - written by Scott Westerfeld, illustrated by Keith Thompson, audiobook version narrated by Alan Cumming (Simon Pulse, 2011 -- I listened to the audiobook version)
June 15, 2014: Never Let You Go - by Patricia Storms (Scholastic Canada, 2013).
June 16, 2014: Parasite - by Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire (Orbit/Hachette, 2013). Adult sf.
June 17, 2014: Chicken, Pig, Cow - by Ruth Ohi (Annick Press, 2008).
June 18, 2014: Gift Days - written by Kari-Lynn Winters, illustrated by Stephen Taylor (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2012).
June 19, 2014: Breathe - by Scott Magoon (Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster, 2014).
June 20, 2014: Cats' Night Out - by Caroline Stutson and Jon Klassen (Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster, 2010).
June 21, 2014: We Planted A Tree - by Diane Muldrow and Bob Staake (Golden Books/Random House, 2010).
June 22, 2014: The Maze Runner - by James Dashner (Delacorte, 2010).
June 23, 2014: The Stamp Collector - by Jennifer Lanthier and Francois Thisdale (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2012).
June 24, 2014: Boy + Bot - by Ame Dyckman and Dan Yaccarino (Knopf/Random House, 2012).
June 25, 2014: Say Hello To Zorro! - by Carter Goodrich (Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, 2011).
June 26, 2014: One Word Pearl - by Nicole Groeneweg and Hazel Mitchell (Charlesbridge, 2013).
June 27, 2014: Hooray For Hat! - by Brian Won (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014).
June 28, 2014: Since You've Been Gone - by Morgan Matson (Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, 2014).
July 01, 2014: Miss Maple's Seeds - by Eliza Wheeler (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin, 2013).
July 02, 2014: Red, White and Boom! - by Lee Wardlaw and Huy Voun Lee (Henry Holt Books For Young Readers, 2012).
July 03, 2014: Africa Is My Home: A Child Of The Amistad - by Monica Edinger, illustrated by Robert Byrd (Candlewick, 2013).
July 05, 2014: I Dare You Not To Yawn - by Helene Boudreau and Serge Bloch (Candlewick, 2013).
July 06, 2014: Page By Paige - by Laura Lee Gulledge (Amulet Books/Abrams, 2012).
July 07, 2014: The Night Gardener - by Jonathan Auxier (Penguin Canada, 2014).
July 08, 2014: The Big Green Book Of The Big Blue Sea - by Helaine Becker and Willow Dawson (Kids Can Press, 2012).
July 09, 2014: Some Bugs - by Angela DiTerlizzi and Brendan Wenzel (Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster, 2014).
July 10, 2014: Maya Was Grumpy - by Courtney Pippin-Mathur (Flashlight Press, 2013).
July 11, 2014: City Cat - by Kate Banks and Lauren Castillo (Frances Foster Books/Macmillan, 2013).
July 11, 2014: The Adventures Of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend - by Dan Santat (Little, Brown/Hachette, 2014).
July 12, 2014: Skink On The Brink - by Lisa Dalrymple and Suzanne Del Rizzo (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2013).
July 13, 2014: Ninja! by Arree Chung (Henry Holt, 2014).
July 14, 2014: My Teacher Is A Monster! (No, I Am Not.) by Peter Brown (Little, Brown/Hachette, 2014).
July 15, 2014: Xander's Panda Party by Linda Sue Park and Matt Phelan (Clarion/HMH, 2013).
July 16, 2014: Locomotive by Brian Floca (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster, 2013).
July 17, 2014: Please, Louise! by Frieda Wishinsky and Marie-Louise Gay (Groundwood Books/House Of Anansi, 2007).
July 17, 2014: Stained by Cheryl Rainfield (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013).
July 19, 2014: The Day The Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers (Philomel/Penguin, 2013).
July 20, 2014: Henny by Elizabeth Rose Stanton (Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster, 2014).
July 21, 2014: underGROUND by Denise Fleming (Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster, 2012).
July 22, 2014: Eva and Sadie and the Worst Haircut Ever! by Jeff Cohen and Elanna Allen (HarperCollins Children's, 2014).
July 23, 2014: The Man With The Violin by Kathy Stinson and Dušan Petričić (Annick Press, 2013).
July 28. 2014: Five, Six, Seven, Nate! by Tim Federle (Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, 2014).
July 29, 2014: Heidi Heckelbeck Has A Secret by Wanda Coven and Priscilla Burris (Little Simon, 2012).
July 29, 2014: Virginia Wolf by Kyo Maclear and Isabelle Arsenault (Kids Can Press, 2012).
August 7, 2014: The Grudge Keeper by Mara Rockliff and Eliza Wheeler (Peachtree Publishers, 2014).
August 8, 2014: In A Blue Room by Jim Averbeck and Tricia Tusa (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008).
August 9, 2014: To All The Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han (Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, 2014).
August 17, 2014: The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel (Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, 2014).
August 23, 2014: Rules by Cynthia Lord (Scholastic, 2006).
Sept. 25, 2014: The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil by Stephen Collins (Picador/Macmillan, 2014).
Oct.7, 2014: Go, Shapes, Go! by Denise Fleming (Beach Lane Books/S&S, 2014).
Oct. 14, 2014: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (Penguin Random House, 2014).
Oct. 15, 2014: A Hitch At The Fairmont by Jim Averbeck (Atheneum/S&S, 2014).
Nov. 13, 2014: The Unlikely Hero Of Room 13B by Teresa Toten (Penguin Random House, 2013).
Dec. 15, 2014: Dashing Through The Snow: A Canadian Jingle Bells by Helaine Becker & Werner Zimmerman (Scholastic Canada, 2014).
Dec. 17, 2014: Along A Long Road by Frank Viva (Little, Brown For Young Readers, 2011).