Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found by Marie Brenner is a memoir that I’m just not even sure how to review. Something tells me that I’m supposed to like this book. Perhaps, I thought that I would relate to Marie more than I did. I freely admit that my little brother [...]
This year I decided one of my “life reading goals” is to read all of the Newbery Medal Winners and Newbery Honor books. Since this is a life goal, I don’t have to rush through it, but I’ve found myself enjoying these books so much, that I can’t stop reading them. Plus, they [...]
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In Cut, Callie is a self-destructive, withdrawn, and unresponsive teenage who finds herself in residential therapy after her school nurse and parents find [...]