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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleOne 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...
View ArticleShadow 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,...
View ArticleM.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...
View ArticleMini-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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleLong 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...
View Article#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...
View Article2013 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 Purple Cow, by Seth Godin (Audio) – 1/2/2013 A slightly outdated business book by one...
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