We need books! We need stories and voices that say the same things that we hear in our heads; we need to know there are […]
Howl’s Moving Castle
The buzz of Harry Potter is so huge, at least in my head, that I haven’t been able to put the books down. I reread […]
Book Discussion Series: Bud, Not Buddy
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father — the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
Schooled by Gordon Korman
Meet peaceful, patient Capricorn Anderson, a dyed-in-the-wool hippie who has grown up on the Garland Commune for all of his 13 years with his grandmother […]
The Underneath
Kathi Appelt is a first time novelist, but you wouldn’t know it. Her Newbery honor winner The Underneath reminds me of someone telling a folk […]
Things Not Seen
What would you do if you woke up one morning and discovered that you had become invisible? This is what happens to 15-year old Bobby […]
The Higher Power of Lucky
In The Higher Power of Lucky, Susan Patron has created an indomitable character in ten year old Lucky Trimble. Lucky lives in Hard Pan, CA […]
Gooney Bird Is So Absurd
Lois Lowry’s Gooney Bird Greene is back in Gooney Bird Is So Absurd. It’s now January in Mrs. Pidgeon’s second grade class. The students are […]
Book Discussion series: Belle Prater’s Boy
***JUST SO YOU KNOW*** All of the posts in our book discussion series contain questions and reviews that could possibly reveal parts of the plot […]