A Newbery award winner and a frequently required reading book for fourth graders, Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell really should be required reading for everyone. The story is told in the …
I waited a long time to pick up and read this book. (Actually, I picked up my Kindle and read this book on there, so maybe that has something to do with it.) But once I started reading it, I could har…
Reviewer disclaimer: I rarely, if ever, read books more than once. Even if it is an absolutely fantastic book that I fall in love with, I will almost never pick it up again. Why? Because I feel …
A lively introduction to the solar system, beginning with the ideas of primitive star gazers and continuing up through Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and on to the modern world.
The …
Eighteen-year-old Daniel bar Jamin made a vow to avenge the death of his father and mother by the Romans. For years he’s lived in the mountains with the rebel leader Rosh, but now that his grandmother…
When nineteen-year-old Philip Marsham’s father is lost at sea, Phil turns to the only skill he has—sailing. He signs up as a seaman on the frigate the Rose of Sharon, but when pirates take over t…
If you think of Florence Nightingale as I did—as someone who helped found modern nursing, you’re right, but there’s so much more to her than that!
Born to a life of leisure, parties and social visi…
James Gurney has published three “journals” of the Victorian explorer Arthur Denison's travels in the land of Dinotopia. In Denison’s third adventure, he and his friend Bix, a talking dinosaur, set ou…
Ten-year-old Jerry Pye, Rachel, his nine-year-old sister, and Uncle Bennie, their three-year-old uncle all pitch in to earn the dollar Jerry needs to buy the smartest puppy in the litter.
But someo…
Cross Rapunzel with Annie Oakley, add a young man named Jack who’s got a goose in tow, and serve it up in a light-hearted graphic novel format, and you have the main ingredients for Rapunzel’s Revenge…
Author Lynne Reid Banks, who wrote Indian in the Cupboard, here turns her attention to ancient Rome and the gruesome entertainments at the Colosseum. She focuses on three main charac…
This Newbery Award-winning book tells a light and lively role reversal story. When Prince Brat runs away and takes his whipping boy, Jemmy, with him, they end up switching places with each other. …
