Welcome to the third edition of the Maw Books Reader Spotlights! Today, I’d like you to meet (or re-meet) Jeanette who blogs at A Comfy Chair and a Good Book! It has been my privilege to have Jeanette visit me and vice versa for almost a year now. Jeanette is just amazing and I hope [...]
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult is the story of Katie, a young Amish girl, who awakes in the middle of the night, goes out to the barn, quietly gives birth to a baby boy and then falls asleep. When she awakes the baby is gone and her prayers are answered. She simply goes back to [...]
Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen is a very slim 92 pages. But in those 92 pages, you will be cringing, covering your mouth in horror and squeezing your eyes shut so you won’t be able to read the words. At least that’s what I did. What a raw look into pre-Civil War slavery. Sarny is twelve [...]
Ruby Bridges is an icon of the civil rights movement. And it is in Through My Eyes that we are given a first hand account of what it was like to be a small 6 year old black girl in New Orleans, Louisiana who sets the stage for school integration.
In 1954, the year that Ruby [...]
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Hudson Talbott is a 2006 Newbery Honor book and let me tell you, I think this book is amazing. Absolutely beautiful both in lyric and illustration. I lingered on each page with admiration but wanted to quickly turn the page to see what came next. Show Way is [...]
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