Stanley-
Corn Snake
Pikachu-
Chinchilla
Rex & Daisy-
Leopard Geckos
Scooby &
Shaggy-
Black Moors

Ely & Lilly-
Fantail Guppies

2 Albino Scary
Fish
Papa Tumor
Fish-happy with his 13
friends
12 Goldfish  
Basement Fish
and 1 Black fish
who thinks she
is a goldfish
Cleo - Our
Border of the
Week
The Stupendous Books of All Time
These are books that I have enjoyed and throughly loved.  They might not sell
a lot of copies or some readers will hate these titles, but I don't care - I LOVED
them!
  1. Water for Elephants
  2. Ya Ya Sisters
  3. A Prayer for Owen Meany
  4. The World According to Garp
  5. The Kite Runner
  6. Prince of Tides
  7. Hot Six
  8. Kane & Able
  9. Ragtime
  10. Separate Peace
  11. Thornbirds
  12. The Godfather
  13. Gone With the Wind
  14. Ethan Fromme
  15. Education of Little Foot
  16. The Perks of Being A Wallflower
  17. Things My Mother Doesn't Know
  18. A Separate Peace
  19. Ironman - Chris Crutcher
  20. Staying Fat for Sara Burns- Chris Crutcher
  21. Whale Talk- Chris Crutcher
  22. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
  23. Sophie's Choice
  24. Harry Potter Books
  25. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil
  26. Harriet the Spy
  27. Where the Wild things Are
  28. Make Way for Ducklings
  29. Charlotte's Web
  30. Shattering Glass
  31. Because of Winn Dixie - Kate de Camille
  32. The Meanest Doll in the World and the Doll House

Favorite Young Adult Novels:
Everything by Chris Crutcher
Everything by Will Weaver
Everything by Rennison, Louise Angus
Everything by Rowling, J. K
Everything by Francesca Lia Block
Everythiing by Judy Blume
Everything by Sonya Sones
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Chbosky, Stephen
Buddah Boy
How I paid for college : a novel of sex, theft, friendship & musical theater -

Marc Acito
Shattering Glass - Giles, Gail
Things Ny Mother Doesn't KNow- Sones , Sonya
Keeha's House - Frost, Helen
Hoot - Hiaasen, Carl
Farmer, Nancy
. The House of the Scorpion
Paulsen, Gary – How Angel Peterson Got His Name and Other Outrageous
Tales About Extreme Sports
Choldenko, Gennifer.  Al Capone Does My Shirts: a Novel
Sones , Sonya.  One of those Hideous Books where the Mother Dies.
Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees
Koertge, Ron. Stoner & Spaz
Korman, Gordon. Son of the Mob.
Brashares, Ann. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
McCormick, Patricia. Cut
Sanchez, Alex. Rainbow Boys
Wolff, Virginia Euwer. True Believer
Chevalier, Tracy Girl with a Pearl Earring
Hyde, Catherine Ryan Pay It Forward
Logue, Mary Dancing with an Alien
Rennison, Louise Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of
Georgia Nicolson
Spinelli, Jerry Stargirl
Holt, Kimberly Willis. When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
King, Stephen. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Powell, Randy. Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star
Sones, Sonya. Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went
Crazy.
Sachar, Louis Holes
the boyfriend list, the boy book and Fly on the Wall -
e. lockhart
Crank-Ellen Hopkins
The Naked Mole Rat Letters
The Life History of a Star
I was a Teenage Fairy,  Echo, Weetzie Bat Books - Block
Basketball Diaries


Great Authors- Can't miss with anything they write:
John Irving
Flannery O'Connor
Pat Conroy
Amy Tan
Janet Evanovich
Mary Logue
Chris Crutcher
Will Weaver
James Lee Burke
Maeve Binchy
JoAnn Mapson - Chloe Series, Bad Girl Creek

Some of The Books of 2006
These books might not have come out this year, but I read them this year. I
will try to keep a list next year of everything I read, but I am really not that
organized.  It could be extreme torture.

Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate De Camille
The Manny Files- LOVED THIS
A Fly on the Wall
Empress Orchid - Anchee Min
Vanishing Act - Jodi Pichoult
Spinning Through the Universe
Keesha's House
Hoot
Angel Fire
Becoming Naomi Leon
Buddah Boy
Poison Heart - Mary Logue
Wedding In December - Anita Shreve
Beach House - James Patterson
Saving Fish From Drowning - Amy Tan
All the Numbers - Judy Merrill Larson
Wish you were here - Rita Mae Brown
Amazing Grace
Patron Saint of Liars
The Tragedy of Miss Geneva Flowers- Joe Babcock
Al Capone does my Shirts-Gennifer Choldenko
So Be It, Sara Weeks
How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, FrIendship and Musical Theater -
Marc Acito
Necklace of Kisses, Francesca Lia Block
Judith Ryan Hendricks - Bread Alone, Isabel's Daughter and The Baker's
Apprentice
Along Came Mary and Good Bye Earl - JoAnn Mapson
Son of the Mob
The Life History of a Star
I was a Teenage Fairy,  Echo, Weetzie Bat Books - Block
Basketball Diaries
Eleven on Top
Star
Cottage for Sale
Cane River
Can you Keep A Secret - Sophia Kinsella
Gorilla My Love - Toni Cade Bambera
Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down
Jane Eyre


Hate to Have This, But BOOKS I HATED

Cold Mountain -
I couldn't get past page 5 blah, blah, blah
House of Sand & Fog - Ruined my Birthday Week
Vinegar Hill - BORING


Great Movies of 2006 - Saw More Cable TV Then Anything Else

O
Little Miss Sunshine
Digby Gets Down
Brokeback Mountain
Pidgie-  Our one-wing
friend who is crabby
because of his condition
Milky Way and
Snickers-
Guinea Pigs-RIP
2007 Books
This is All - Aidan Chambers
Postcards from No Man's Land-
Aidan Chambers
Octavian Nothing-MT Anderson
For One More Day -Mitch Ablom
Miss Ophelia - Mary Burnett Smith
Inside Mrs. B's Classroom -
Leslie Baldacci
Once Upon a Marigold-Jean Ferris
Sula - Toni Morrison
The Sweet Potatoes First Big Ass
Novel-
Pee Wee and Plush- Johanna
Hurwitz
Pee Wee's Tale - Johanna Hurwitz
Secret Confessions of the
Applewood PTA -
Plum Lovin'-Janet Evanovich
Raising the Peaceable Kingdom-
Jeffrey Masson
Startled by his Furry Shorts-
Louise Rennison
Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers-
Louise Rennison
Marley and Me-John Grogan
The astonishing adventures of
Fanboy & Goth Girl - by Barry Lyga
the boy book - e. lockhart
When Charlotte Comes Home
The Little Friend-Donna Tartt
Kafka on the Shore
Bj, Millie and
Junior our
new kitty