I read Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse, the 1998 Newbery Award winner, in my ongoing project to read all of the Newbery books.
Set in the 1930’s during the great depression in the dust bowl of Oklahoma, Out of the Dust is told as a diary in free verse form, a style of writing [...]
Jacqueline Woodson continues to do no wrong and Miracle’s Boys further confirms that I need to continue to read through her entire back list.
Miracle’s Boys is a beautiful exploration of what happens when parents die, leaving their children behind to cope in their absence. Ty’ree, the oldest, gives up college to care for his two [...]
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff is a 2003 Newbery Honor book and is worth every minute of the short read. Hollis is twelve years old and stuck in the foster care system. She is known as being a trouble maker and constantly runs away from the homes in which she is placed. [...]
The Mechanics of Falling and Other Stories by Catherine Brady is a collection of eleven short stories set mainly in the San Francisco area and are an intimate portrayal of the characters relationships with each other and how those relationships are tested when faced with dilemma’s, change, discontent, responsibility, despair, self-doubt, and faith.
From the book [...]
Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson is the sequel to Locomotion but when I read it I had no idea. It can be read entirely on its own, I didn’t feel like I was missing anything. But I’ll say this, Peace, Locomotion was so touching that I now have Locomotion on hold at the library and [...]
