Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers. Semicolon thoughts on Americans in war here.

The Search for the Red Dragon by James O. Owen. I didn’t manage to review this sequel to Here, There Be Dragons (Semicolon review here), and I liked it very much. Enough that I’ll be looking for the next book in the series, The Indigo King, which is supposed to be published this month.

Random Harvest by James Hilton. Good story. Semicolon review here.

A Bell for Adano by John Hersey. Semicolon thoughts on establishing democracy here.

Bertie Wooster Sees It Through by P.G. Wodehouse. This one cheered me up during the Hurricane Blues.

The Innocent Man by John Grisham. The sad, but true, story of a man with problems who was wrongfully convicted of murder. Grisham was trying to convince me that the death penalty is wrong, but he only convinced me that Oklahoma has some major judicial and law enforcement issues.

Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix. YA problem fiction about a girl with a secret. It reminded me of this book, but I liked A Door Near Here better.

The Youngest Templar: Keeper of the Grail by Michael P. Spradlin. Semicolon review here.

First Light by Rebecca Stead. I thought this fantasy/science fiction/Arctic adventure was odd, to say the least. Absorbing, but strange.

A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements. Semicolon review (sort of) here.

Cicada Summer by Andrea Beaty. Review coming tomorrow.

The Underneath by Kathi Appelt. Review coming.

Go here for all the Semicolon reviews of children’s and YA fiction published in 2008.