A charming book, told from a 10-year-old’s perception, about the street she and her family have lived on since she was born. The street reminds me of older times when neighbors took the time to get to know one another, sit on their front porches, and watch out for each other. I really enjoyed this …
Win this book! The first person from a Granite School District school to leave a comment on this review will receive a copy of this title for their school library. I was interested in reading this book because it was about mermaids, a subject that is mysterious and exciting. I was not disappointed; it was …
The mysterious Mr. Socrates found Modo in the back of a gypsy cart. When he saw Modo’s deformity he turned to leave, but the year old child called out to him. When Mr. Socrates turned to look at the child, Modo had transformed himself. Not only did his facial features change but his back straightened …
11 year old Bea lives with her mom’s best friend in the small town of Elbow. Her father died when she was nine and her mom is in a mental hospital. It rains nonstop in Elbow from May until September. Most families leave during the rainy season but Bea only dreams of going to Florida, …
Three siblings: Otto, Lucia, and Max; the story is told by one of them, but the teller has been sworn not to reveal him or herself by the other siblings. They live with their dad in a small town in England where they were long ago labeled the weird kids of the town, but only …
Winner of the 2011 Coretta Scott King Award * Winner of the 2011 Scott O’Dell Historical Fiction Award * A 2011 Newbery Honor Book * 2010 National Book Award Finalist
What a fun, interesting, exciting, and loving book to read. Walls within Walls is a modern tale of 3 children moving from Brooklyn to Manhattan’s upper east side. They don’t want to move and the apartment they are moving into is just plain old! The original owners made it so that the old stuff (walls) …
Winner of the 2011 Belpré Award Long before the meteoric rise of Pablo Neruda, Nobel Prize-winning poet and one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century, there was a sensitive and shy young boy in a small town in Southern Chile named Neftali Reyes. In The Dreamer, Pam Muñoz Ryan gives us …
Every night, after she’s read a couple of chapters of Nancy Drew, Franny closes her eyes and drafts a letter to Chairman Khrushchev, asking him to come to an understanding of things and not blow up America. But she can never get the wording quite right. In fact, she can’t seem to get anything quite …
