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Speak is the first Laurie Halse Anderson book that I’ve read and it certainly won’t be the last.  I loved the way in which Speak was written.  I’m not exactly sure how to describe it.  It’s very minimalistic.  Short and to the point.  It was refreshing to discover a very stylized book, at least a […]

If you missed my book reviews of Story of a Girl and Sweethearts hop on over and read them here and here first.  Then come back here for a wonderful author interview with Sara Zarr.
Maw Books:  Welcome Sara!  It’s been a treat to discover both of your books this year.  Let’s see if I can […]

After reading Sweethearts by Sara Zarr (read my book review here), I rushed out to get Story of a Girl, Sara’s debut young adult novel.  In Story of a Girl, Deanna is unable to recover from a lack of judgment she made when she was thirteen:  being caught by her father having sex with her […]

Sweethearts by Sara Zarr is a great young adult fiction book.  Jennifer and Cameron, who as social outcasts with no other friends in the third grade are inseparable.  They do everything together.  And then after something happens in Cameron’s home on Jenna’s birthday, Cameron and his family disappears.  Jennifer has lost the only person who […]

I recently read and reviewed If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson (read that review here).  A few days later I was browsing through my library (the library in my living room, not the city library) and discovered I had another unread Jacqueline Woodson book titled Behind You (I love making discovering like that in […]