When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead is the perfect realistic fiction book with a fantasy twist.  It’s a mystery too.  As well as a coming of age, friendship book.  In fact, When You Reach Me dabbles a little in many genres.  In a short 197 pages, this book packs a punch!  From what I’ve [...]

Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff

Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff is a 2003 Newbery Honor book and is worth every minute of the short read.  Hollis is twelve years old and stuck in the foster care system.  She is known as being a trouble maker and constantly runs away from the homes in which she is placed.  [...]