books i've read may 2022

 5.1.22

• The Race by Edouard Manceau (PB)
• Someday, Narwhal by Lisa Mantchev & Hyewon Yum (PB)
• Our World Is a Family: Our Community Can Change the World by Miry Whitehill, Jennifer Jackson, & Nomar Perez (YNF)
• The Gingerbread Man and the Leprechaun Loose at School by Laura Murray & Mike Lowery (PB)
• Zen Happiness by Jon J. Muth (PB)
• Ida, Always by Caron Levis & Charles Santoso (PB)
• Score One for the Sloths by Helen Lester & Lynn Munsinger (PB)
• Three Cheers for Tacky by Helen Lester & Lynn Munsinger (PB)
• Nova: The Star Eater by Lindsay Leslie & John Taesoo Kim (PB)
• May I Have a Word? by Caron Levis & Andy Rash (PB)
• Mama's Work Shoes by Caron Levis & Vanessa Brantley-Newton (PB)
• Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor (YA)

5.2.22

• Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk (YA)

5.4.22

• Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou (ANF)
• Muted by Tami Charles (YA)

5.6.22

• Tacky Goes to Camp by Helen Lester & Lynn Munsinger (PB)
• Tacky in Trouble by Helen Lester & Lynn Munsinger (PB)
• Tackylocks and the Three Bears by Helen Lester & Lynn Munsinger (PB)
• Tacky and the Emperor by Helen Lester & Lynn Munsinger (PB)
• Tacky and the Winter Games by Helen Lester & Lynn Munsinger (PB)
• Happy Birdday, Tacky! by Helen Lester & Lynn Munsinger (PB)
• The Way Home for Wolf by Rachel Bright & Jim Field (PB)
• Violet's Tempest by Ian Eagleton & Clara Arganuzzi (PB)
• New in Town by Kevin Cornell (PB)
• Brilliant Bea by Shaina Rudolph, Mary Vudadinovich, & Fiona Lee (PB)

5.7.22

• The Monster Returns by Peter McCarty (PB)
• ABC Pasta: An Entertaining Alphabet by Juana Medina (PB)
• Prickly Jenny by Sibylle Delacroix (PB)
• Whose Mouse Are You? by Robert Kraus & Jose Aruego (PB)
• Brave Molly by Brooke Boynton-Hughes (PB)
• Moon's First Friends: One Giant Leap for Friendship by Susanna Leonard Hill & Elisa Paganelli (PB)
• The Best American Food Writing 2021 edited by Gabrielle Hamilton (ANF)
• Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters (YA)

5.8.22

• Bobo and Pup-Pup: Let's Make Cake! by Vikram Madan & Nicola Slater (Y)
• The Cats and the Cake by Martha Hamilton, Mitch Weiss, & Steve Henry (PB)
• Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women's Right to Vote by Dean Robbins & Nancy Zhang (YNF)
• Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester & Lynn Munsinger (PB)
• Julia's House Goes Home by Ben Hatke (PB)
• The Tunnel by Sarah Howden & Erika Rodriguez Medina (PB)
• The Monster in the Bathhouse by Sina Merabian (PB)
• Dog Says, Cat Says by Marilyn Singer & Sonia Sanchez (PB)
• With Lots of Love by Jenny Torres Sanchez & Andre Ceolin (PB)
• Gib-ber-ish by Young Vo (PB)
• The Problem with Pierre by C.K. Smouha & Suzanna Hubbard (PB)
• Death & Sparkles by Rob Justus (GN)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: Katara and the Pirate's Silver by Faith Erin Hicks & Peter Wartman (GN)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: Team Avatar Tales by Gene Luen Yang, Ryan Hill, Dave Scheidt, Little Corvus, Faith Erin Hicks, Ron Koertge, Sara Goetter, Kiku Hughes, Carla Speed McNeil, & Coni Yovaniniz (GN)
• Baby-Sitters Little Sister: Karen's School Picture by Katy Farina & Ann M. Martin (GN)
• Teen Titans: Beast Boy Loves Raven by Kami Garcia & Gabriel Picolo (GN)
• Pink, Blue, and You!: Questions for Kids About Gender Stereotypes by Elise Gravel & MyKaell Blais (YNF)
• Hana-Chan and the Shape of the World by Ryotaro Uedal (M)
• Free Comic Book Day: School for Extraterrestrial Girls by Jeremy Whitley & Jamie Noguchi (C)

5.9.22

• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (A)

5.12.22

• Fresh by Margot Wood (YA)
• Here's to Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera (YA)

5.13.22

• Midnight & Moon by Kelly Cooper & Daniel Miyares (PB)
• Let Me Fix You a Plate: A Tale of Two Kitchens by Elizabeth Lilly (PB)
• Fox: A Circle of Life Story by Isabel Thomas & Daniel Egneus (YNF)

5.15.22

• Always Only You by Chloe Liese (A)
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (A)

5.16.22

• The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces by Courtney Cook (ANF)
• Menopause: A Comic Treatment edited by M.K. Czerwiec (GN)

5.17.22

• Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo (ANF)

5.18.22

• Lore Olympus Volume One by Rachel Smythe (GN)

5.20.22

• The Changeling by Victor LaVelle (A)
• Kaleidoscope by Brian Selznick (Y)
• Knight Owl by Christopher Denise (PB)
• Hugo and the Impossible Thing by Renee Felice Smith, Chris Gabriel, & Sydney Hanson (PB)
• Counting Creatures by Julia Donaldson & Sharon King-Chai (PB)
• The Superpower Sisterhood by Jenna Bush Hager, Barbara Pierce Bush, & Cyndi Wojciechowski (PB)
• Amanda Gorman by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Lauren Semmer (YNF)
• Elton John by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Sophie Beer (YNF)
• Prince by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Cachetejack (YNF)
• Gloria Steinem by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Lucila Perini (YNF)
• J.R.R. Tolkien by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Aaron Cushley (YNF)
• Stevie Wonder by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Melissa Lee Johnson (YNF)
• Stacey's Extraordinary Words by Stacey Abrams & Kitt Thomas (YNF)
• Vivienne Westwood by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Laura Callaghan (YNF)
• A Gift for Nana by Lane Smith (PB)
• Hang in There! by Sabrina Moyle & Eunice Moyle (PB)
• School Is Cool! by Sabrina Moyle & Eunice Moyle (PB)

5.21.22

• Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister (ANF)

5.22.22

• Raven Squawk, Orca Squeak by Roy Henry Vickers & Robert Budd (PB)
• Think Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison (YNF)
• Audrey: My First Audrey Hepburn by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara & Amaia Arrazolalf (YNF)
• John James Audubon Painted Birds by Kate Coombs & Seth Lucas (YNF)
• You Are My Magical Unicorn by Joyce Wan (PB)
• Tiny Like a Bug by Kotryna Zyle (PB)
• Uni Paints a Rainbow by Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Brigette Barrager (PB)
• Little Seed by Benson Shum (PB)
• I Am the Longest Dog by Avery Monsen (PB)
• Friends Are Friends, Forever by Dane Liu & Lynn Scurfield (PB)
• Capybara Is Friends with Everyone by Maddie Frost (PB)
• Wondering Around by Meg Fleming & Richard Jones (PB)
• Olu & Greta by Diana Ejaita (PB)
• All Moms by Sarah Kate Ellis, Kristen Ellis-Henderson, & Max Rambaldi (PB)
• I Am Thinking My Life by Allysun Atwater & Stevie Lewis (PB)

5.23.22

• The Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan He (YA)

5.24.22

• Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson (YA)
• Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (ANF)

5.25.22

• Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Saenz (YA)

5.26.22

• A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger (YA)

5.27.22

• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (A)

5.28.22

• Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise by Bryan Konietzko, Michael Dante DiMartino, Gene Luen Yang, & Gurihiru (GN)
• Wisp by Annika Rodrigues (PB)
• Just You and Me: Remarkable Relationships in the Wild by Jennifer Ward & Alexander Vidal (YNF)
• Moth: An Evolution Story by Isabel Thomas & Daniel Egneus (YNF)
• XO, Exoplanet by Deborah Underwood & Jorge Lacera (YNF)
• Lightfall, Book One: The Girl & the Galdurian by Tim Probert (GN)
• An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir (YA)

5.29.22

• Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Lost Adventures by Aaron Ehasz, Alison Wilgus, Amy Kim Ganter, Brian Ralph, Corey Lewis, Dave Roman, Elsa Garagarza, Ethan Spaulding, Frank Pittarese, Gurihiru, J. Torres, Joaquim Dos Santos, Johane Matte, John O'Bryan, Joshua Hamilton, Justin Ridge, Katie Mattila, May Chan, Rawles Cumumba, Reagan Lodge, Jim Hendrick, & Tom McWeeney (GN)
• School for Extraterrestrial Girls: Girl on Fire by Jeremy Whitley & Jamie Noguchi (GN)
• Athena: Goddess of Wisdom and War by Imogen Greenberg & Isabel Greenberg (GN)
• Snail & Worm: Three Stories About Two Friends by Tina Kugler (PB)
• My Must-Have Mom by Maudie Smith & Jen Khatun (PB)
• Bathe the Cat by Alice B. McGinty & David Roberts (PB)
• There Was an Old Dragon Who Swallowed a Knight by Penny Parker Klostermann & Ben Mantle (PB)
• Spencer and Vincent, the Jellyfish Brothers by Tony Johnston & Emily Dove (PB)
• Once Upon Another Time by Charles Ghigna, Matt Forrest Esenwine, & Andres F. Landazabal (PB)
• How to Bake a Universe by Alec Carvlin & Brian Biggs (YNF)
• You Are a Star, Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Dean Robbins & Sarah Green (YNF)
• Whole Whale by Karen Yin & Nelleke Verhoeff (PB)
• Princeless: Make Yourself Part Two by Jeremy Whitley, Emily Martin, & Brett Grunig (GN)
• Princeless: Raven: The Pirate Princess: Free Women by Jeremy Whitley, Rosy Higgins, & Ted Brandt (GN)
• The Nightmare Brigade: The Girl from Deja Vu by Franck Thilliez, Yomgui Dumont, & Drac (GN)

5.30.21

• The Red Scrolls of Magic by Cassandra Clare & Wesley Chu (YA)
• Scout Is Not a Band Kid by Jade Armstrong (GN)
• The Baby-Sitters Club: Good-Bye Stacey, Good-Bye Gabriela Epstein & Ann M. Martin (GN)

5.31.22

• Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson (Y)

05.22 total: 129

64 picture books; 20 youth nonfiction; 12 young adult fiction; 6 adult nonfiction; 3 youth fiction; 17 graphic novels; 1 manga; 1 comic; 5 adult fiction