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Book Review: Brightwood
Daisy only knows the house and gardens of Brightwood Hall, her mother suffered from a horrible tragedy and only goes out when it’s completely necessary and never allows Daisy to leave. With a stockpile of food and her mother’s Day Boxes (a box for each day filled with things that…
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Far Too Common a Problem Results in Unexpected Heroes
I think at this point almost everyone who follows social and community issues has heard of the skyrocketing numbers of deaths due to drug overdoses, specifically that of heroin in the past few years. It’s a national crisis and you can learn more about the startling number of people it…
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Book Review: The Exact Location of Home
Kate Messner is a prolific writer of children’s books – picture books, early chapter books and middle grade novels and she fits into each of these areas with ease. Today, I want to focus on her newest middle grade novel, The Exact Location of Home a companion story to The Brilliant Fall…
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Book Review: Just Fly Away
Fifteen-year-old Lucy learns a family secret that not only devastates her, but separates her from her friends, family and even her boyfriend. Her father has an eight-year-son from a brief affair that he’s kept hidden from Lucy and her sister and although her sister seems unfazed, Lucy feel as though…
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Book Review: Love, Ish
Karen Rivers, author of The Girl In the Well Is Me brings to life Mischa “Ish” Love a girl who believes in her heart that she will be one of the first inhabitants of Mars. She lives and breathes outer space – what she’ll wear, what she’ll eat, what she’ll miss…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 5/22/17
This week I was able to to finish two books and start a third, which is pretty awesome! I finished Love, Ish by Karen Rivers and Just Fly Away by Andrew McCarthy and then I also started Finding Mighty by Sheela Chari. It was a good week of reading and I know that…
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15 Picture Books to Celebrate Armed Forces Day
H is for Honor: A Military Family Alphabet by Devin Scillian, illustrated by Victor Juhasz Alpha, Bravo, Charlie: The Military Alphabet by Chris L. Demarest Memorial Day Surprise by Theresa Martin Golding, illustrated by Alexandra Artigas Night Catch by Brenda Ehrmantraut, illustrated by Vicki Wehrman Our Daddy Is Invincible! by Shannon Maxwell, illustrated by Liza…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Great Middle Grade Moms (or at least ones that try really hard)
This was a really difficult list to create – apparently I don’t pay close attention to the adults in middle grade fiction (when they exist, which is a whole other issue). And then when I was creating the list, I wanted to come up with a diverse list of families…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 3/27/17
I finally finished Carmer and Grit: The Wingsnatchers by Sarah Jean Horowitz – it took me quite a while to finish and it wasn’t because I didn’t enjoy reading it, for whatever reason it just took me some time. It’s the perfect book if you have a middle grade reader who likes fairies…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 2/20/17
I didn’t get to quite as many books this week, but I enjoyed the ones I did get to read! Wish is a sweet story about family and friendship found in unexpected places (and a small spoiler alert – although there is a dog on the cover of the book, the…