The Heart is Not a Size by Beth Kephart is a lovely book. Georgia has been best friends with Riley for forever. They had been the queens of finger paints and mud pancakes. Now teens and ten years into their friendship, at a time when they are both redefining themselves, both travel together from their [...]
In Leaving Gee’s Bend by Irene Latham, ten-year-old Ludelphia Bennett only knows one way of life and that is sharecropping and the people in her small town. In fact, she’s never left the town at all or explored the surrounding communities.
Life is relatively simple and happy but not without its sorrow as her mother loses [...]
Why do I love reading memoirs? Because of books like War Child, A Child Soldier’s Story by Emmanuel Jal. What an incredible book that had me thoroughly engrossed. I think using the word engrossed is supposed to be a no-no when reviewing books but how else can I describe a book that had me unable [...]
Saying Grace: A Prayer of Thanksgiving by Virginia Krull and illustrated by Timothy Ladwig is a lovely new book on the importance of prayer and gratitude for our blessing. Although saying grace or blessing our food wasn’t a new idea among early American settlers and the custom was practiced as early as biblical times, this [...]
Okay folks. Surely you’ve seen this book around haven’t you? Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld. I’d seen the cover before but had never taken the time to pick it up and so I was a tad excited when it was a book read by our fabulous librarians at our story time [...]
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