Short stories seem to be locked in my head in association with high school English classes, and I can’t say that I’ve read many in the years since. It would have been an awful shame if that perception had kept me away from this summer’s release of Vanishing and Other Stories by Deborah Willis. Talk…
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Two Gardens from Kids Can Press
At 5 Minutes for Books, we are proud to feature books across many genres for children and adults. This week is all about highlighting children’s books, but we’ve also reviewed quite a few nonfiction books in the Health category that you might want to check out. Read the anchor post to find all of the…
Betsy Red Hoodie by Gail Carson Levine
At 5 Minutes for Books, we are proud to feature books across many genres for children and adults. This week is all about highlighting children’s books, but if you’re also interested in fiction for your middle-grade reader, we have some great reviews in that category as well. Read the anchor post to find all of…
The Stuff that Never Happened
What a wonderful, humorous, thoughtful and entertaining read. It was perfectly timed too, since I had recently read/listened to the most acclaimed literary fiction novel of the decade, and had just finished a pretty dark and thought-provoking debut novel. The Stuff That Never Happened by Maddie Dawson drew me in from the beginning. I loved…
Guys Read: Funny Business
When I heard that this book was coming out, I was excited. My 11-year-old daughter is a bookworm, but still loves humor. My 6-year-old son can read well, but reading doesn’t always grab his attention, so I know that it’s going to be up to me to provide him with books that interest and entice…
Brave Girl Eating
When I was a teen, I was into reading fiction about girls with anorexia, which at that time (mid-80′s) was pretty new. I even thought that I might want to become a psychologist or psychiatrist due to the empathy that was borne in me from reading about the inexplicable struggle that these young girls go…
Mockingjay
Mockingjay. This is the one word that’s been on many, many lips since the third book was announced in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Forget sparkly vampires, this one is all about a dystopian world in which society as we know it has been gone for quite some time, and in its place…
Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation
Miserable. If you live at an institution called a “Home for the Hopeless, Abandoned, Forgotten and Lost,” odds are that your life is pretty miserable. (And when the nameplate for that institution also reads “Crushing the Spirit of Childhood Since 1898,” you as a reader know that the author of the book you are reading…
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