The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan

We all know what it's like not to belong. But only Shaun Tan could convey it so well into pictures and so few words. There really isn't much I can say about it other then that it is worth the trip down to the library and the few minutes it takes to read!

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson has never really fit in. It wasn't that he ever tried to bring about disaster or anything. However, disaster can't help but follow him around. After Percy is kicked out of yet another school his mother takes him to the beach just to get away from it all. That is when things really start to get weird and Percy finds out that he isn't completely human at all. He is a demi-god, a half mortal child of one of the greek gods. Percy is sent on his first (and maybe his last) quest to get back Zeus' lightning bolt before a war breaks out between the gods. Oh ya... he only has two weeks to find it.

The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Farthest Shore is the third book in the Earthsea cycle. In Le Guin's style, the book is not really about the main plot at all. Instead the book is about the small occurrences and discussions that go on around the main plot. Le Guin uses the fact that magic seems to be disappearing in the world to set up the situations for revelations to occur among her characters. The "climax" is more of a mute point and occurs and is over very quickly. It seems almost disappointing until the reader realizes that (in ever so over quoted fashion) it was not the destination that made the book. It was the journey that brought our two heroes there that make the book so wonderful.

Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life by Roald Dahl

In 1946, after WWII was over, Roald Dahl found himself living in Buckinghamshire country. Here he would meet several.... intertwining people who would give him the inspiration to write several short stories which would be published in various magazines. Seven of them are collected here in one book in which Dahl displays again his love of irony and just plain strangeness.