Dovey Coe by Frances O’Roark Dowell

My name is Dovey Coe, and I reckon it don’t matter if you like me or not.  I’m here to lay the record straight, to let you know them folks saying I done a terrible thing are liars.  I aim to prove it, too.  I hated Parnell Caraway as much as the [...]

Interview with Suzanne Kamata, Author of Losing Kei

I just reviewed Suzanne Kamata’s novel Losing Kei, a story of an American woman who loses her child to Japanese custody laws when she divorces her Japanese husband.  Suzanne Kamata, like her character, is an American living in Japan for the past twenty-one years with her family and gives a unique perspective to the book.  [...]

T4 by Ann Clare LeZotte

T4 by Ann Clare LeZotte is a free verse novel for about the age nine to twelve reading level that takes us inside the Holocaust but from a different perspective that we don’t see very often.  That of life for a deaf child.
Although life is silent for Paula Becker she’s happy in her home with [...]

Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

I finished Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson about a week ago, and now as I sit down to write this review, I can’t remember what it was about. I remember that I enjoyed reading it, but now, I must take a moment to quickly go through it again . . . Oh, yes, it’s about [...]