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Top Ten Tuesday: Great Leaders
I decided to go with strong female characters who I think would make great leaders, granted most of these characters are young, so we might need to wait a few years before they’d be of age to become great leaders, but I think they have the characteristics that make great…
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It's Monday! What Are Your Reading? 11/6/17
As expected long days at work, plus an awesome KidLitCon left me with very little extra time for reading this week. I finished The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Glaser – and all I can say is I would love to live in the Vanderbeekers brownstone in Harlem with lots…
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Book Review: A Boy Called Bat
Synopsis: Bixby Alexander Tam prefers to be called Bat, for one it’s his initials and two he wants to be veterinarian when he grows up, just like his mom. Bat’s not a huge fan of surprises or changes in his schedule, but when his mom brings home an unexpected baby…
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12 Somewhat Scary Stories for Middle Grade Readers
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a scaredy-cat – I don’t like haunted houses, scary movies, or even scary books! But I know tons of readers who love books that creep them out, so if that’s something you love – check out these creepy titles for middle grade…
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It's Monday! What Are Your Reading? 10/30/17
It’s been a week – trying to work on our library budget, library programming and a busy weekend left very little time for reading. I was able to finish The Traitor’s Game by Jennifer A. Nielsen and A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold. I also started working on The Vanderbeekers…
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Book Review: All's Faire in Middle School
Synopsis: Imogene’s never been to a traditional school, she’s grown up with both her parents working at the Renaissance Faire and she’s more than ready to begin training as a squire and join the ranks of her family and friends each weekend as a real character at the Faire, but she’s also…
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Book Review: Race to the Bottom of the Sea
Synopsis: Fidelia loves nothing more than spending time with her marine biologist parents, Dr. and Dr. Quail on the water tagging sharks, gathering new specimens and inventing new machines. But, when her parents die in a tragic accident in Fidelia’s own submarine invention, she is racked with guilt and grief. Soon,…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Unique Book Titles
I went with play-on-word titles or titles that have words that don’t belong together (or maybe don’t make sense together) and other titles that are just unexpected. I haven’t read most of these books, so they’ll get put on my TBR list too!
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/23/17
This week I read some really great middle grade titles – Race to the Bottom of the Sea by Lindsay Eagar, All’s Faire In Middle School by Victoria Jamieson, Ban This Book by Alan Gratz, and Posted by John David Anderson. These titles were all very well written and ones that I can’t wait…
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Book Review: The Littlest Bigfoot
Synopsis: Alice lives life almost invisibly – her family ships her off to school, she doesn’t have a single friend and she knows that she isn’t pretty with her big, bulky frame and her wild hair she calls a mane. So when she saves Millie Maximus’s life at her eighth boarding…