The 10 p.m. Question by Kate De Goldi features 12-year-old Frankie Parsons. Each night he lies awake in bed, worrying. By 10 p.m., he’s usually searched out his mom to ply her for answers or to simply receive some comfort. But other then having an overactive worrying imagination, he’s a perfectly normal kid. He and…
Category Archives: 12 and up
The Girl Who Was on Fire, Hunger Games movie edition (with Giveaway)
Four out of the ten books on the Amazon Best Sellers list are Hunger Games books. The original book has been in the top 100 for 500 days. I assume it dropped off at some point, but the 2nd and 3rd in the series have been on for around 800 and 700 respectively, which is…
Water Balloon
As is fitting for a coming-of-age story, Marley‘s life is turning upside down. Her parents are separated, her best friends are totally involved in drama camp and making new friends, and she has to stay in her dad’s new small not-home apartment for the summer while her mom goes to help take care of her…
Dystopian Romance: Matched & Restoring Harmony (with Giveaway)
My daughter, Ilsa, who’s 14, loves dystopian fiction, and is not averse to a little romance mixed in. As someone who grew up in the 70s and 80s worrying about communist invasions and gulags (I had a very vivid imagination), this mystifies me—at her age, I hated the thought of creepy Societies watching my every…
Sharing ‘A Wrinkle in Time’; 50th Anniversary Edition
It was a dark and stormy night. I was 12, recently moved 1200 miles from home, lonely, having a hard time making friends at my new junior high school. I was sick a lot that year and my mother, knowing what a hard time I was having, was patient with me, letting me stay home…
Issues-driven Historical Fiction for Kids
I learn history best through fiction. I love experiencing the effects of history on people’s lives through fictional characters’ lives. Any time I read something or watch something that deals with Civil Rights (or the lack thereof during our nation’s history), I’m changed. I am grateful for how far we’ve come, but I also am…
Crossed, Review and Giveaway
Crossed is the 2nd book in the Matched series, a YA dystopian series. You can read my review of Matched to find out about the dystopian world that Ally Condie has created. Crossed is a little bleaker since it’s set in the Outer Provinces where Ky and Cassia have been sent. I don’t usually feel…
Dark of the Moon
Dark of the Moon manages to be historic fiction as well as a retelling of a well-known myth, and as such, it’s extremely well-done. Ariadne, the Goddess-Who-Will-Be, is in many ways a normal 15 year old girl, insecure in some ways, chafing against the life she’s always known while at the same time embracing impending…
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