Spring Reading Thing 2011 Is Here!!!

Welcome to my post on the Spring Reading Thing Challenge!  I have many great books to read.  If I finish them I will add more to the list as I go.  I am an eclectic reader.  I read for pleasure and research for my writing.  I read for adults, young adults, and children.  I want to know what is out there to recommend to people of all ages.  That is why there is always such a variety of books reviewed on my site.

Here is my list as I have it right now.  They are not in any particular order.  I've tried that in the past and found I got discouraged.  I will not review all of these books because of the sheer number I hope to read, and also because some of them are research for 'my' book.  I look forward to seeing what everyone else is reading and adding to my TBR pile.

  1.  Ten Miles past Normal - Frances O'Roark Dowell
  2.  The Poison Eaters - Holly Black
  3.  Glimpses of My Friend the King - James Howard
  4.  These Things Hidden - Heather Gudenkauf
  5.  Bless this Mouse - Lois Lowry
  6.  People of the Book - Kathi Macias
  7.  Kat Incorrigible -  Stephanie Burgis
  8.  Deadly Ties - Vicki Hinze
  9.  The Secret of Indigo Moon - G.P. Taylor
10.  The Priest's Graveyard - Ted Dekker
11.  The Dark City - Catherine Fishher
12.  The Fires Beneath the Sea - Lydia Millet  
13.  Chime - Franny Billingsley
14.  The Source of All Things - Tracy Ross
15.  The Stone of Destiny - Jim Ware
16.  Miles From Ordinary - Carol Lynch Williams
17.  The Ghost of Cutler Creek - Cynthia DeFelice
18.  Anessia's Quest - Karen Arnpriester
19.  Bound By Guilt - C.J. Darlington
20.  Waterfall - Lisa Tawn Bergren
21.  Berlin in Early Cold-War Army Booklets - T.H.E Hill
22.  Voices Under Berlin - T.H.E. Hill
23.  The Ale Boys Feast - Jeffrey Overstreet.
24.  Travels with Gannon and Wyatt:  Botswana - Patti Wheeler and Keith Hemstreet
25.  Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow - Nathan Bransford
26.  A Time To... - Ronald Louis Peterson
27.  Never Knowing - Chevy Stevens
28.  Flashes from the Other World - Julie Ann Weinstein
29.  Buddy's Tail - K. Anne Russell
30.  The Unbelievable Adventures of a German WWII War Bride - Ingeborg M. Johnston
31.  Hidden - Helen Frost
32.  Kindertransport - Olga Levy Drucker
33.  Extraordinary Giving - Daniel Evans
34.  Tales of Little Bear and Little Buffalo - Roy Naquin
35.  Noah Barleywater Runs Away - John Boyne
36.  My Pictures, My Words - Mac Kenney
37.  Eyewall - H.W. "Buzz" Bernard
38.  A Long, Long Sleep - Anna Sheehan
39.  The Great Mogul Diamond - G.P. Taylor
40.  The First Escape - G.P. Taylor
41.  Angel Burn - L.A. Weatherly
42.  Save Me - Lisa Scottolone
43.  All Differen Kinds of Free - Jessica McCann

Added Picture Books
44.  This Little Prayer of Mine - Anthony DeStefano
45.  Birds Can Fly and So Can I - Noa Nimrodi