Newbery Winner “Moon Over Manifest,” by Clare Vanderpool, moves a bit like the train winding throughout: starts out slow, builds momentum, and sings along its tracks. […]
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Newbery Winner “Moon Over Manifest,” by Clare Vanderpool, moves a bit like the train winding throughout: starts out slow, builds momentum, and sings along its tracks. […] Today I give you the standout of my recent reads: Journey of the Pale Bear by Susan Fletcher click to access on Amazon Summary: Twelve-year-old Arthur forms a bond with a polar bear given […] “Love to Everyone” author Hilary McKay embraces difficult subjects: negligence, bullying, being different, loving where one “ought not,” war and dying. […] Secret Writing Lives of Professors I grew up in a town with two colleges, where academia ruled. So I get a special kick out of an author like Anne Nesbet (and Katherine Rundell)—professors with not-so-secret lives as a successful storybook writers. Acclaimed author of middle-grade novels, Anne Nesbet is an associate professor at […] Paris Whale For Real? Whether this story could have actually taken place or not, I’ve no idea. Never the less, A Whale in Paris by Daniel Presley and Claire Polders is a highly engaging story set in World War II France.
Summary: During the German […] An advantage of reading children’s books in middle age: All the books published during the time you were “too old for kids’ books” are now new-to-you! Such is the case, for me, with today’s book recommendation:
A Single Shard, by Linda Sue Park Published in 2001, this Newbery Medal winner came […] |
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