Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen is a very slim 92 pages. But in those 92 pages, you will be cringing, covering your mouth in horror and squeezing your eyes shut so you won’t be able to read the words. At least that’s what I did. What a raw look into pre-Civil War slavery. Sarny is twelve [...]
When Donna Gephart discovered my blog and sponsored me in my Reading & Blogging for Darfur Awareness Campaign, I knew that I wanted to read her debut novel As If Being 12 3/4 Isn’t Bad Enough, My Mother is Running for President (perfect title!) Donna sent me the nicest emails and also doubled her donation [...]
In A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg, it’s 1963 in Kuckachoo Mississippi and Addie Ann Pickett is twelve years old and about to start middle school at West Thunder Creek Junior High School (more commonly known as County Colored). She worries about whether or not playing Double Dutch is to babyish or if her [...]
I’m on tour today with Susan McBride and her new book for teens called The Debs, the first of a new series about debutantes in Houston. I have a confession to make. When I received The Debs and read the back cover, I thought, “Oh no. I have a feeling that this book isn’t cut [...]
It’s the future, but it’s a future very different from our own. There is no color, no weather, no hills, no war, no pain, no family, no diversity, no memories, no choices. This is The Giver by Lois Lowry.
In this perfect society, everything is very orderly. At age one, each child [...]
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