It's not hard to see why Sheila Turnage's Three Times Lucky won a Newbery Honor for 2013! The story is quirky and unique, and Mo's voice throughout it is fun and engaging. While the mystery that makes…
THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN by Katherine Applegate is the 2013 Newbery Medal winner.
Many times a book built on animals as the main characters will be aimed at very young children and that will be the ex…
Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin is a 2013 Newbery Honor Book for a good reason. Sheinkin masterfully weaves together the differ…
"It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it's no good at all if you don't have a plan for tomorrow."
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Certain books are referenced as the perfect example of their genre. Ender's Game is one of those books. Set in a future world that doesn't feel that far away, Ende…
Gail Carson Levine provides a charming retelling of another fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty. The princess is given gifts by the fairies, as in the original story, but in this version, one of the fairies g…
In this first book of a (completed) four book series called The Homelander Series, Andrew Klavan hooks the reader with immediate page-turning suspense. It became so intense in a few spots that I kept …
This sweet story is based on a piece of the author's own family history. MacLachlan has taken that piece of history and added to it details and characters that make this short tale spring to lif…
Being a lover of islands and the ocean myself, I was obviously intrigued by Turtle in Paradise, a quirky, full-of-character book that takes place in Key West, Florida. I quickly fell in love with Turt…
I'll admit—on first seeing the description, I wasn't sure what kind of story to expect from this unique little book. Its plethora of glowing reviews, however, convinced me to give it a try, and boy, a…
This book was incredibly poignant and tender, as well as being educational. I learned a lot about Afghanistan and all the political upheaval there that led to the Taliban taking over, but the writing …
Criss Cross tells the story of a group of young teenagers, each of them trying to discover their own voice. The story unfolds slowly, comprised of little things—a guitar lesson, a bus ride, a firefly-…
