Brown Girl Dreaming won the 2015 Newbery Honor award as well as the National Book Award. It’s a biographical story about the author, Jacqueline Woodson’s childhood. This book had a big impact on me. I was so touched during some parts, that I got a little teary while listening to it. It helped me to […]
Review | The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
2013-05-24 · by ·
Charlotte’s father insists that she finish the school year before returning home to America from England. Plans are made for Charlotte to travel with a couple of different families that have children her age, on a boat that is owned by her father’s company. When Charlotte arrives at the Seahawk, prepared for her journey across […]
Review | Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
2013-02-28 · by ·
Clara Wintermute is fascinated by the stringed puppet show she sees performed on a street corner. She pleads with her father to hire the small show to be the entertainment for her birthday party. Despite his concerns about the dirty, lower-class, expert puppeteer, Gaspare Grisini, he consents. Clara is excited to meet the two orphaned […]
Review | Savvy by Ingrid Law
2013-01-10 · by ·
I picked this book up because it won the Newbery Honor Award. I didn’t have a clue what it was about when I started reading page one, but it didn’t take more than a few pages for me to be laughing out loud at some of the antics of Mississippi Beaumont, AKA ‘Mibs,’ who lives […]
Review | The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
2010-01-08 · by ·
Wow. I just finished reading The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. It definitely makes my top ten list of all time. It took me a few pages to get into, but once there, it just kept getting better and better. I laughed out loud, I cried, I laughed again and cried again. I don’t […]
