We Are the Ship, The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson

Please forgive my rambling for a bit.  Let me start off by saying that I know NOTHING about baseball.  My only experience with the sport is when I lived in Chicago I went to a Sox game once and when I was in my early twenties I was playing a game of softball (not baseball [...]

All the Broken Pieces by Ann Burg

Oh my.  This is my type of book.  All the Broken Pieces by Ann Burg and I were made for each other. And had it not been for the Cybils, this middle grade free verse novel might have flown under my radar (despite that I now see the reviews for it – all of which [...]

Penny from Heaven by Jennifer Holm

I read Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm as part of one of my “life reading goals” and that is to read all of the Newbery Award Winners and Honor Books. So far I have enjoyed every one that I’ve read. Penny from Heaven is an Newbery Honor book from 2007.
I enjoyed [...]