The Penderwicks is a sweet family story with an old-fashioned feel and a cast of characters so endearing that I was sad to leave them when the book was finished. I loved Jeanne Birdsall's depiction of…
Markus Zusak's The Book Thief is an award-winning and phenomenal story set during World War II. With Death himself narrating, readers are introduced to Liesel Meminger, a girl lacking i…
Every now and then a book comes along that unexpectedly sweeps you off your feet. That was my experience reading Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Grace Lin's delightful fantasy fable based on her ow…
When Joey and his little sister Mary Alice go to spend the summer with Grandma Dowdel, they aren't sure what to expect—but before long they, and the reader, are whisked on several madcap adventures wi…
The Newbery Award is an annual award given by the American Library Association for the most distinguished contribution to American children's literature in the prior year. The first year it was award…
This year's Newbery Award Winner is a strange, quirky adventure in the sleepy 1960s town of Norvelt, Pensylvannia—a dying "Eleanor Roosevelt" town created decades before by the former First Lady as a …
New York Times Bestselling author Markus Zusak delivers another touching and powerful work in I am the Messenger. Set in suburban Australia, readers are instantly introduced to nineteen year-old …
Written by the same author who wrote The Boy Who Dared, this is a non-fiction account of the youth who were involved in the Hitler Youth organizations. This book has won seven awards, including t…
The setting of Texas and Arizona in the 1880s makes for a gripping and moving read. The book spans nearly twenty years of Sarah Prine’s life and has the reader laughing and rejoicing one moment and s…
The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature was first awarded in the year 2000 to Monster, by Walter Dean Myers. Selected by a committee of 10 members, one book is named…
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler is a 2012 Michael L. Prinz Honor Book. Author Daniel Handler is probably best known under his pen name, Lemony Snicket, the author of A Series of Unfortunate Events.…
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley is the 2012 Micheal L. Printz Award Winner. Two seemingly unrelated stories, both in content and style, are brought together in this tale of brothers, wood…
