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The Unwritten Rule by Elizabeth Scott’s opening chapter is a mere four lines:
I liked him first, but it doesn’t matter.
I still like him.
That doesn’t matter either.
Or at least, it’s not supposed to.
Those four lines set up the entire book perfectly.  Ah . . . to be the third wheel.  It’s bad enough to be [...]

Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry is the 1940 Newbery Medal winner.  Set in the Polynesian Islands before the traders and missionaries first came to the South Seas, it is the story of Mafatu who is known as The Boy Who Was Afraid.  What was it that he was so afraid of?  The ocean.  In [...]

Fade by Lisa McMann is the sequel to the popular bestseller Wake which I reviewed this past December.  Recently, Lisa McMann was also gracious enough to give readers of the Maw Books Blog an author interview and talk about both Wake and Fade.
In Fade, Janie is learning how to control her ability to fall into [...]

Need a fun, lighthearted feel good book to curl up with? Something, Maybe by Elizabeth Scott is that book.  Something, Maybe is nothing like the only other book I’ve read by Scott: Living Dead Girl.  Which I think is a mark of a truly talented writer.  Whereas Living Dead Girl is dark, gritty, and downright [...]

Letters from a Slave Girl, The Story of Harriet Jacobs by Mary E. Lyons is based upon Harriet Jacob’s own 1861 autobiography entitled Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery, it was the only life that she knew.  When her mistress, Margaret Horniblow, who taught Harriet to read [...]