Written for ages 11 & up, Bill New's The Year I was Grounded is a playful facsimile of a one-year journal kept by a reluctant diarist who learns to enjoy his own introspectiveness. "I don't tell everybody this,"; he writes, "but I think I like thinking a whole lot, too. Last summer, kayaking on the lake, I spent a lot of time thinking about how things relate."; 978-1-896580-35-7

[BCBW 2008]