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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 [...]

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.  [...]

Yesterday, I was thrilled to interview Ingrid Law who just received a 2009 Newbery Honor for her debut novel Savvy.  Savvy is such a fun, whimsical book with a lot of heart and I really enjoyed it.  I’m thrilled to pass on another copy of Savvy to one of my blog readers (I’m just super [...]

Back in January, I reviewed Savvy by Ingrid Law.  I’ve found that in the four months since I read Savvy, I have grown to be more fond of it, which is a good thing.  I mentioned in my book review that it was getting Newbery buzz and I was then thrilled when Savvy won a [...]

Kirby Larson is the Newbery Honor author of Hattie Big Sky and co-author with Mary Nethery of Two Bobbies:  A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship and Survival.  I interviewed Kirby this past September about both books and of course received a recipe from Kirby.  While there are a couple of recipes found at the [...]