Today is the day!! Catching Fire is in a bookstore near you! How exciting! I feel like there should be confetti and much fanfare. I was fortunate enough to read Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins nearly three months ago and it is the book that I, nor anybody else, can stop talking about. This and [...]
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 [...]
Do you know how many people will not be able to resist making a pun of Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins and say that the book is catching fire? Well, include me in that bunch because it’s true. I’m not writing up a full review because with the book still not coming out for another [...]
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is one of those breakout novels that if you haven’t heard of it yet then you are missing out. It’s seriously worthy of all the buzz that it’s getting. I borrowed The Hunger Games from Steph at The Children’s Literature Book Club and three weeks later it was still [...]
When I first read the synopsis of Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman, I remember asking myself, “What?! Can this really be done?” You see, Skeleton Creek is different. It’s not just a book. It’s what I would call an experience. Officially, I guess they call it “cross platform storytelling.” Skeleton Creek is perfect for those [...]
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