Best books of 2009 — of the ones I read anyway

Okay, so I was going to do this whole post about the best kid’s books I read this year, but while I was going through my list on goodreads, I started to get confused about my star rating system. Then I thought, hmm…which books would I actually recommend as something worthwhile to read (five-star or not?). Here’s they are, sorted by author’s last name (note–these are not necessarily NEW books, just books I read this year):

My Favorite Books This Year

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray	The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett	Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins	A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly	The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy by Wendelin Van Draanen	Coraline by Neil Gaiman	The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, and Nathan Hale	Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe	Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Rules by Cynthia Lord	Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery	Nim’s Island by Wendy Orr
Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins	The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets by Nancy Springer	When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Never Trust a Dead Man by Vivian Vande Velde