2010 Young People’s Literature National Book Award Finalists

For serious, book awards are SO exciting. There’s this little thrill I get when I learn about books being recognized for being very high quality.  Therefore, when I hopped onto Twitter and saw the National Book Award 2010 finalists had been announced, I thought I would share them with you! Shipbreaker by Paolo Bacigalupi Synopsis […]

The Absolutely True Diary of A Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie | Book Review

Y’all, I read banned books. The Absolutely True Diary of A Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is a beautifully written book about a teenage boy named Arnold ‘Junior’ Spirit, who leaves his Indian reservation school to receive an education at the white school. We see Junior face problems many of his real life contemporaries face, […]