I love it when books have a big mystery and smart young heroines who are total survivors living hardscrabble lives. Under The Egg by debut author Laura Marx Fitzgerald is a short middle grade book that’s both a mystery and an ode to art history as well as kind of a love letter to New York […]
Duke | Kirby Larson | Book Review
March 17, 2014
Straight up, I am partial to books with dogs on the cover, even though to be honest, they kind of scare me. I get nervous because OMG what if the dog dies? So, y’all, I obtained Duke by Kirby Larson at BEA 2013. It’s a middle grade historical fiction book and of course, there is a German […]
Stay Where You Are And Then Leave by John Boyne | Book Review
March 16, 2014
John Boyne’s Stay Where You Are And Then Leave is a quiet gem of a book. To me, it does not shout with action or over the top prose, instead it whispers a subtle story of family and love where you lean in to hear and listen just a little bit harder than you normally would. […]
Jessica Darling’s It List #1 | Megan McCafferty | Book Review
February 19, 2014
It thrills me to no end that middle school girls are going to get to grow up with Jessica Darling. Somehow, this gives me optimism for the future. Like many of you, I did not read the Jessica Darling books until high school — well, for me, the were published in high school and I […]