Yes, I’m the crazy one who woke up at 5:30 in the morning to listen to the awards announcements! Can we say excited?!!! Glad I’m not the only one who woke up crazy. Twitter was full of excitement.
The American Library Association (ALA) made it’s announcement of the top books, video and audiobooks for children and [...]
I’ve haven’t been this excited for award season before! Since the inception of this blog, I’ve been reading a lot more books that were published this past year. Although, I haven’t read nearly all the books getting Newbery buzz, I was curious to see how some of my favorites would do. So without further ado [...]
At the age of 14, in The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart, Frankie is more or less forgettable. She is attending a prestigious and competitive boarding school, the same school where her older sister and father attended. But no matter how hard she tries, nobody seems to take notice of her. Now [...]
Speak is the first Laurie Halse Anderson book that I’ve read and it certainly won’t be the last. I loved the way in which Speak was written. I’m not exactly sure how to describe it. It’s very minimalistic. Short and to the point. It was refreshing to discover a very stylized book, at least a [...]
Having just discovered Marcus Zusak this year having The Book Thief (review here) I was eager to read more of him. And it seemed like everybody that was reading The Book Thief was reading his I Am the Messenger. So I thought why not? What can I tell you about I Am the [...]
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