Book Review
How to Ruin Your Life
In just one afternoon, nine-year-old Penelope Jane Parker, better known as PJ, may have ruined her life. While practicing for the big fourth-grade track meet, PJ, who has always been the best runner in the grade, decides to encourage her...
Book Review
A Good Long Way
After coming in past curfew yet again, Beto’s usual argument with his father takes a violent turn. He has been threatening to run away for weeks, and now Beto takes off into the night, deserting his parents and his younger brother...
Book Review
A Place for Delta
Although animal adventures are a perennial favorite in juvenile literature, the most notable books are those that stretch beyond the story and truly reach, engage, and teach readers about the world and about themselves. "A Place for...
Book Review
Nonna's Book of Mysteries
“‘Truly, through the process of alchemy, many miracles shall be wrought.’” Emilia Serafina, the heroine of Nonna’s Book of Mysteries, clings to these words from her great-great-great grandmother’s strange book, A Manual to...
Book Review
Bamboo People
Chosen as a Junior Library Guild selection and included on IndieBound’s Summer 2010 Kid’s Indie Next List, "Bamboo People" is remarkable in its honest, poignant exploration of the everyday people involved in the conflict in Burma....
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