All booklovers have literary heroines: Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder. This gift package pays tribute to some of these. Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters, a Young Adult title, shares the lives of these three women and their daughters in…
Category Archives: 5 Star Reads
A Long Walk to Water
As the parent of a fifth grader, I’m well aware of the wide variety of books geared toward readers his age, from the silly to the more serious, and I can’t deny that I sometimes wish he would opt for more of the meaningful fare. With Linda Sue Park’s new middle grade novel A Long…
Cybils Nominees on the Newbery Watch List
There are several titles that have been nominated in the Cybils Middle Grade category that I’ve also heard a lot of Newbery buzz for (whatever that means). Regardless, I would not be surprised to see any of these titles on the Newbery award list for 2011, although as you’ll see from my reviews below, I’m…
Little Girls Can Be Mean
For those of us who are females, it doesn’t take movies like Mean Girls to tell us that girls can be very cruel to one another. We know it because we have experienced it. No, girls aren’t out on the playground punching or kicking a weaker child (in most cases). Instead, they use words and…
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
You know how you read certain books and then want to tell others to go out and read that book right now? That’s how I have felt the last week or so since I finished reading The Strange Case of Origami Yoda. When Dwight makes a Yoda out of paper and puts it on his…
Prisoners in the Palace
Prisoners in the Palace: How Princess Victoria became Queen with the Help of Her Maid, a Reporter, and a Scoundrel is a new Young Adult novel by Michaela MacColl. The title–and subtitle–says it all. This is a historical fiction novel based on the author’s examination of the very sheltered life of the teenage Victoria, before…
I Didn’t Do It!
I Didn’t Do It! is a beautiful, beautiful book. The paintings by Katy Schneider are pure art. I’ve purposefully used the book cover with amazon’s “look inside” so that you will do just that. You can see a few more of the pictures and read one of the poems. The dog’s expressions are perfect. A…
The Kneebone Boy
This book promised to be delightfully quirky, and it is! I had not ever read anything by Ellen Potter, but she was definitely on my radar after reading a few reviews of some of her earlier works. The Kneebone Boy is the story of the Hardscrabble children. Otto, Lucia, and Max range in age from…
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