It distresses me that the books I have read already in this year's SLJ's Battle of the Kids' Books are toward the end of the battle. No fair! I DID read Brown Girl Dreaming. But not another title until The Madman of Piney Woods in Round 5. And then, I skip to Round 8, where I read both titles, We Were Liars and West of the Moon. I had better start reading aggressively. There are trips to my local libraries and bookstores in my future.
