So my husband and I were grocery shopping at a store that we had never shopped at before. We were there for an hour going around the perimeter of the store looking at all the cool foods our other grocery store (which I LOVE) doesn’t carry. It almost felt like a date albeit the two [...]
Please welcome Linda Aksomitis to talk about her new middle grade western, Longhorns and Outlaws. If you didn’t catch my book review, check it out and then come back here to learn more. Linda’s got the most interesting life and it was great to get to know her!
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I’m on tour today with Linda Aksomitis’s newest book, Longhorns and Outlaws, a great historical fiction western middle grade novel.
Recent immigrants from the Netherlands, Lucas is just getting used to living in a new country, when his parents and little sister die in the 1900 Galveston Hurricane and he’s left orphaned. His older brother Gil, [...]
Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki and illustrated by Dom Lee is a wonderful picture book for younger readers to introduce them to a part of American history, particularly the relocation of Japanese Americans from their homes to internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II.
“Shorty” was thus nicknamed because he [...]
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Kadir Nelson is a 2007 Caldecott Honor book and won the Coretta Scott King Award for illustration. This picture book tells the story of Harriet Tubman, who born into slavery, escapes to freedom in the North. Once there she becomes [...]
