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Books I Wish I’d Written
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You can’t live another day without having read these.
BREADCRUMBS by Anne Ursu 
DOLL BONES by Holly Black
THREE TIMES LUCKY by Sheila Turnage
THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE by Kate DiCamillo
THE GRAVEYARD BOOK by Neil Gaiman
ONE CRAZY SUMMER by Rita Williams-Garcia
WHEN YOU REACH ME by Rebecca Stead
BUNNICULA by James Howe
THE FALSE PRINCE by Jennifer Nielsen
THE THING ABOUT JELLYFISH by Ali Benjamin
SPLENDORS AND GLOOMS by Laura Amy Schlitz 
SAVVY by Ingrid Law
BECAUSE OF WINN DIXIE by Kate DiCamillo
THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN by Katherine Applegate
SEE YOU AT HARRY’S by Jo Knowles
UNDER THE EGG by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
WONDER by RJ Palacio
THE GIVER by Lois Lowry
NINTH WARD by Jewell Parker Rhodes
THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett 
A CROOKED KIND OF PERFECT by Linda Urban
MOCKINGBIRD by Kathryn Erskine
THE MISADVENTURES OF THE MAGICIAN’S DOG by Frances Sackett
FROM THE MIXED UP FILES OF MRS BASIL E FRANKWEILER by EL Konigsburg
THE REAL BOY by Anne Ursu
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
HOW TO STEAL A DOG by Barbara O’Connor
KEEPING SAFE THE STARS by Sheila O’Connor
OUT OF MY MIND by Sharon Draper
THE GREENGLASS HOUSE by Kate Milford
THE WITCH’S BOY by Kelly Barnhill
COUNTING BY 7’s by Holly Sloan
NEST by Esther Ehrlich
FUZZY MUD by Louis Sachar
FISH IN A TREE by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
THE QUESTION OF MIRACLES by Elana K. Arnold
ABSOLUTELY ALMOST by Lisa Graff
SEE YOU IN THE COSMOS by Carl Sagan
A NEARER MOON by Melanie Crowder
WOLF HOLLOW by Lauren Wolk
EVERLASTING NORA by Marie Cruz
Edith Cohn 