When I was a kid, I was all about Sharon Creech and her books. We read Walk Two Moons and Chasing Redbird out loud in class and from there, it was kind of love. Picking up her books are kind of like seeing an old friend. My latest visit with the old friend, her books, was fairly […]
The Strange And Beautiful Sorrows Of Ava Lavender | Leslye Walton | Book Review
March 24, 2014
I am going to be straight up and honest with you — when I first cracked open The Strange And Beautiful Sorrows Of Ava Lavender by debut author Leslye Walton, I was really skeptical. I thought, a girl with wings and her struggles this is going to be dumb. Turns out the only dumb one was […]
Zebra Forest | Adina Rishe Gewirtz | Book Review
May 16, 2013
Perhaps this makes me sound like a total hipster, but I enjoy reading books that aren’t very commercial. I love books that have some literary merit as well as entertainment value. When Zebra Forest by Adina Rishe Gewirtz popped up on my radar, I knew I had to read this middle grade debut. First of all, […]
The Vine Basket | Josanne La Valley | Book Review
April 30, 2013
The Vine Basket by Josanne La Valley caught my eye because of the beautifully illustrated cover that matches the title and the contents of the book. What sold me even more on checking out La Valley’s book was the East Turkestan setting. I have never read a book with an East Turkestan setting before, and […]
Review: Invisible Things by Jenny Davidson
December 6, 2010
Invisible Things by Jenny Davidson is an alternate history sort of historical fiction. Set prior to World War II, Scotland is crazy militant. Girls get brainwashed into being something like sex slaves for high power government employees. The European mainland countries have banded into a confederation. However, some elements are the same as actual history. […]