Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison graduated from Smith College in the early 1990s. Always a free […]
Book Discussion Series: Maniac Magee
***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 […]
Girls, Games, Boys and Books
I think I was looking for videos of smart boards last night when I came across a series of video essays on the subject of […]
Snakes
Books: “Mouse Count” by Ellen Stoll Walsh “I Need a Snake” by Lynne Jonell, illustrated by Petra Mathers “Opposnakes” by Salina Yoon. This book inspired […]
Art Thieves & Forgers
March 18, 2010 marked the twentieth anniversary of the devastating art theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (www.gardnermuseum.org). Thirteen masterpieces including pieces by Vermeer, Rembrandt […]
So amazing: Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton’s books defined a direction and capacity for thoughtful storytelling that many others have since sought to follow. Her fiction for children has been honored […]
Review: The 100 Cupboards series
100 Cupboards is a tremendous and captivating fantasy trilogy by N.D. Wilson. It’s a difficult balance in children’s fantasy to create another world. On one […]
You Read Dis Book,You
The title of this post paraphrases a reviewer’s quote on the back cover of Rheta Grimsley Johnson’s Poor Man’s Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana. […]
Book Discussion Series: Hoot
***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 […]
