Who Was Born This Special Day? by Eve Bunting and illustrated by Leonid Gore is a beautiful, soft nativity story. Each manger animal is each asked in turn if they were born on this special night. Was it you little lamb? Was it you little goat? Was it you little calf? Was it you little [...]
Second-Grade Pig Pals by Kirby Larson is one of her first books, first published in 1994. It was really fun to read this one knowing that she’d soon hit her stride and win a Newbery Honor for Hattie Big Sky, which I which I absolutely loved.
From the cover: To celebrate National Pig Day, Quinn and [...]
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck, a 2001 Newbery Medal winner, is the sequel to A Long Way from Chicago (read my book review), which won Peck the 1999 Newbery Honor (see entire list here).
In A Year Down Yonder Mary Alice is now fifteen and her brother Joey is living out west. A repression [...]
A 2001 Newbery Honor book, Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo was a cute, fun, and thoughtful story. Opal Buloni recently moved to a new town, doesn’t have any friends, is lonely and in the middle of one boring summer. Sent to the grocery store by her father, the local preacher, for [...]
Recently, I read Sold by Patricia McCormick. I enjoyed her book so much (you can read my review here) that I immediately read her two previous books Cut and My Brothers Keeper.
In Cut, Callie is a self-destructive, withdrawn, and unresponsive teenage who finds herself in residential therapy after her school nurse and parents find [...]
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