The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is one of those breakout novels that if you haven’t heard of it yet then you are missing out. It’s seriously worthy of all the buzz that it’s getting. I borrowed The Hunger Games from Steph at The Children’s Literature Book Club and three weeks later it was still [...]
I read Jellaby, written and illustrated by Kean Soo, for my Children’s Literature Book Club in which we were reading titles for this past year’s Cybils; Jellaby was shortlisted in the elementary/middle grade fiction graphic novel category.
My three year old picked up this book a lot while I had it sitting around. He liked the [...]
Chiggers by Hope Larson is a graphic novel geared for the young adult crowd and in all actuality, I don’t have much to say about it, so this will be a pretty short review.
Chiggers is about a group of girls who go to summer camp. It’s the same camp that Abby goes to every summer [...]
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 [...]
I read The Lightning Thief, Book One of Percy Jackson & The Olympians by Rick Riordan as part of my reading for my Children’s Literature Book Club this past month. This young adult book is normally not the type of book that I would pick up on my own, but I found it to be [...]
