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Review: The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander
I thought I would start this blog with this year’s Newbery and Coretta Scott King winner: The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander. I didn’t know anything about the book before I read it, except that it had...
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Review: Fly by Night, by Frances Hardinge
Mosca Mye is on the run. She has burned down her uncle’s mill and freed the man who conned her entire village, and now she and the con artist and her beloved, homicidal goose are fleeing to the city...
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Review: I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith – Mother-Daughter Edition
A few weeks ago, my mother casually mentioned that she had requested a book at the library, and asked if I would bring it home. I was surprised and excited to discover that she had ordered I Capture...
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Review: Danny the Champion of the World, by Roald Dahl
It’s still true: I’ve never met a Roald Dahl book I didn’t love. Dahl is one of those authors I always recommend to reluctant readers: his fantastic imagination, his real empathy with children, and his...
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Review: Dove Arising, by Karen Bao
Dove Arising, by Karen Bao, is set on a lunar colony: one of six bases established by the world’s scientific community when they and their families fled to the moon to escape the growing danger of war...
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Review: This Side of Home, by Renee Watson
Here is a video review! I find I prefer writing reviews to talking them. But I thought I’d mix things up a little today. Click to see my Goodreads review and content advisory. Click to see this book...
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Review: The Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel
I expected The Boundless (by Kenneth Oppel) to be a completely different kind of story. I was expecting more Hitchcock/Christie vibes, more mystery. The premise says nothing about sasquatch and...
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Review: Ms. Rapscott’s Girls, by Elise Primavera
Ms. Rapscott has founded the Great Rapscott School for the Daughters of Busy Parents in her lighthouse on a deliciously stormy shore, and now she watches the skies for the arrival of her first five...
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Review: El Deafo, by Cece Bell
I get so excited when a child tells me he is learning to read. Part of my enthusiasm is simply that selfish, natural excitement that occurs when someone is trying something I love. Another part of my...
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Review: Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman has such a huge following among adults, teens, and children that it’s embarrassing to admit that I have never read his work. – Well, I read Fortunately, the Milk. But somehow I don’t...
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