My favorite books of 2013

Although I still have a stack of books to read, here are my 2013 favorites so far:

Picture Books (Fiction)

The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt

The Mighty Lalouche byMatthew Olshan

Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown

Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great by Bob Shea

Picture Books (Non-Fiction)

Hoop Genius: How a Desperate teacher and a rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball by John Coy

On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein by Jennifer Berne

Chapter Books 

The Center of Everything by Linda Urban

Counting by 7’s by Molly Golberg Sloan

Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo

The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathy Appelt

The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes

Graphic Novels

Bluffton by Matt Phelan

Odd Duck by Cecil Castellucci and Sara Varon

Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley

YA Lit

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Reality Boy by A. S. King

A Trick of the Light by Lois Metzger

Winger by Andrew Smith

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina

Adult Lit

Loteria by Mario Alberto Zambrano

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown