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A Step from Heaven, by An Na

Title: A Step from Heaven Author: An Na Pages: 160 Originally Published: 2001 Format I Read: Paperback Publisher: Speak Rating: [rating:3] ____________________________ Check another one off of my...

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The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson

Title: The First Part Last Author: Angela Johnson Pages: 132 Originally Published: 2003 Format I Read: Paperback Publisher: Simon Pulse Rating: [rating:3] ____________________________ I’m checking...

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One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia

This highly honored book, including a Newbery Medal honor, by Rita Williams-Garcia kind of blew me away. Delphine, eleven, is and has almost always been in charge of looking after her two younger...

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Shadow Tag, by Louise Erdrich

Did you know that it is officially Louise Erdrich month? Emily declared it so, and I jumped on the wagon. I had both Shadow Tag and The Plague of Doves on my shelves and, after a brief perusal of both,...

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M.C. Higgins, the Great, by Virginia Hamilton

I received this book for free from the publisher. All content and opinions are my own. I didn’t know much about this Newbery Medal (and National Book Award) winner by Virginia Hamilton except that I’d...

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Mini-Reviews: Tournament of Books Catch-Up Round

I’ve been cruising through the list of 16 books in this year’s Tournament of Books. The Tournament is well underway, and I want to get these reviews out there now! Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria...

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How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, by Mohsin Hamid

So, I probably never would have heard about let alone picked up this book with the Tournament of Books. And that is exactly why I love the tournament so much, because this is a fantastic book. It’s...

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Long Division, by Kiese Laymon

Oh boy. This was a strange one. It starts out with City, a young black teenager, inadvertently becoming a YouTube sensation. He is then shipped off to his grandma’s house out in rural Mississippi to...

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#ToBX Roundup

It’s March! It’s March! And that means the Tournament of Books is here! You may or may not know just how much I love this tournament, but suffice it to say that I do. I really do. Anyway, since the...

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2013 Audiobook Roundup

Of the 19 audiobooks I listened to in 2013, I reviewed exactly one of them. I think it’s time we remedied that, no? Purple Cow, by Seth Godin (Audio) – 1/2/2013 A slightly outdated business book by one...

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