MG Book Review: Counting by 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Counting by 7's is a touching story about Willow Chance, a 12-year-old girl with an exceptional mind. She is a girl genius and looks at the world differently. She notices details that others might not notice and is particularly interested in nature and medicine. This however, does not make her a lot of friends at school. Her safe world is at home in her garden or at the library. One of the tricks she uses [...]

By |2014-10-27T14:29:38-04:00October 27th, 2014|Book Review|0 Comments

MG Review – The Time of the Fireflies by Kimberley Griffiths Little

Reading THE TIME OF THE FIREFLIES by Kimberly Griffiths Little is like eating comfort food. Think brownies just out of the oven. It’s a wonderful mix of favorite middle grade fiction themes: a curse, time travel and coming of age all wrapped up in mystery flavored by its setting: Louisiana. I was hooked from the beginning, when twelve-year old Larissa answers an old telephone ringing in her family’s antique shop. It isn’t plugged in! The [...]

By |2014-10-05T01:36:37-04:00September 29th, 2014|Book Review|0 Comments

MG Review – Loot by Jude Watson

Twelve-year-old March lives a different life. He’s the son of Alfie McQuin, a notorious jewel thief. One night in Amsterdam, a heist goes horribly wrong and March watches his father fall from a rooftop. Before he dies, Alfie manages to say a few words to March: “Find jewels.” Or did he say, “Find Jules”? March discovers that he has a twin sister named Jules. The two of them are offered a job to steal back [...]

By |2014-10-15T18:34:24-04:00September 25th, 2014|Book Review|0 Comments

MG Review – The Nightingale’s Nest by Nikki Loftin

The Nightingale’s Nest by Nikki Loftin has been called a powerful retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Nightingale, but calling it that doesn’t do it justice. First off, it isn’t exactly a fairy tale and second, it isn’t a retelling of the Andersen classic. The two stories have very little in common other than a nightingale and what happens when the nightingale sings—people are cured and forgiven. So the Nightingale’s Nest would be better described [...]

By |2014-10-15T18:36:35-04:00September 19th, 2014|Book Review|0 Comments

MG Review – The Graham Cracker Plot by @shelleytougas

I’m going to be honest. I was afraid to read this book. Shelley Tougas and I share an agent, the wonderful Susan Hawk, and I wasn’t sure how I’d feel if I hated it. The good news is that not only did I not hate it, I LOVED it. Seriously, she had me on the opening page: DEAR JUDGE HENRY, I will tell you three things right now. Number one: I’m almost twelve years old. [...]

By |2014-10-15T18:39:03-04:00September 15th, 2014|Book Review|1 Comment

MG Book Review – Rump: The True Story of Rumplestiltskin by @LieslShurtliff

Spoiler Alert… Rumplestiltskin wasn’t a bad guy after all.  Or at least in the twisted fairytale RUMP by Liesl Shurtliff. Shurtliff paints a picture where the “villain” ends up being a likable protagonist who is only guilty of having an unfortunate name. Rump sets off to uncover his full name, who names their kid Rump, and the destiny that comes with it. This is important because he lives in a world where people believe that a [...]

By |2014-10-04T12:15:43-04:00August 25th, 2014|Book Review|2 Comments

MG Book Review – The Night Gardner by @JonathanAuxier

Reviewed by L. Tyre I recently finished the new Jonathan Auxier novel, THE NIGHT GARDENER, and it was wonderfully creepy. But before I get into the novel, can we just take a moment to gaze on the incredible cover? The second I saw that, I was determined to buy the book. Sorry, no e-edition for me. I settled in and right away, I knew I was going to love this story. Listen to this: “The [...]

By |2014-10-04T19:58:04-04:00August 15th, 2014|Book Review|1 Comment
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