I read anything and everything. I love the smell of books. My kids giggle at me when I open a new box of books from Amazon and I inhale the new pages and rub the shiny new spine against my face! 🙂 My husband just rolls his eyes at me and is grateful he has me on a budget! 🙂
Alex MacBuff has no parents. He was raised by a group of ghosts that haunt his family’s castle in Scotland. When he is twelve, he finds he can’t keep his family home because he is broke. Enter Mr. …
The True Meaning of Smekday is not your average alien takeover story. It’s told from the point of view of an eleven year old girl writing an essay for a contest. That said, this is more like War of …
What would you do in order to have another day to live? Would you bargain with Death? Do you think he would listen? In Keturah and Lord Death, a bargain is made. Lord Death comes for Keturah in th…
Harrowing. This is the first word that entered my head upon finishing Indelible. It is harrowing. I felt dragged through so much horror, neglect, loss, and, well, ‘unpacked bagg…
Poor Calli. She feels like such an outcast in her family. It seems that everyone is a superstar, but she just can’t cut it! She’s tried just about everything, and nothing seems to fi…
What little boy could find fault with a book about winning a bet by eating worms? How to Eat Fried Worms is full of all kinds of hilarious (and super gross!) antics with boys being boys! Billy think…
From the very first page I was drawn into this tale. It is eloquent and engaging; A book about lovers of books, writers, sisters and secrets. It is wrought with symbolism. The Thirteenth Tale is co…
This ended up being a super fun kids’ book! The second grade kids have started school, but their teacher doesn't know how to read, write, spell, or do arithmetic! Not only that, there's a rumor ther…
“Mirror, Mirror, on the wall…” This is a ‘companion’ novel to Ella Enchanted. Based in the adjoining kingdom of Ayortha, it even mentions Ella at the end! The sister of the main character of this b…
What would you think if all of a sudden, everything (and I do mean everything) that went into your mouth or touched your lips turned to chocolate? Eggs, bacon, water, milk, juice, your leather gloves…
Meet Mary Russell. Brilliant, lonely, and orphaned, she just happens to stumble onto someone while walking and reading a book. That person is none other than the imitable Sherlock Holmes! From that…
“Merely to live, merely to exist—what sense is there in that? A fly also lives!” So states the father of Reuven Malter, a young jewish boy in America. In The Chosen we meet Reuven and Danny Saunder…
