How to (Almost) Ruin Your Summer is a cute, quick read. The narrative follows a typical summer camp trajectory and has the traditional tween characters: loyal friend, cute boy, spoiled and snotty ric…
Lawn Boy snagged my attention because it was authored by Gary Paulsen (author of Hatchet) and I was curious. This is really more of a novella than a book and clocks in at under 100 pages. Much diffe…
With the weight of the world on his shoulders, and knowing happiness is contagious, Rick is determined to have one solve the other. Even at eleven-years-old, he has big dreams to help his family…
I’ve lately been reading a rash of graphic novels or what many would term comic books. And while some have rehashed the same old superhero story lines over and over, this one didn’t. &…
The Drawing of the Three, the second novel in The Dark Tower trilogy, is a worthy sequel to The Gunslinger. The book follows the continuing travels of Roland, the last gunslinger. …
Science and theater fans unite in Kate the Chemist: Dragons vs. Unicorns. Authors Dr. Kate Biberdorf with Hillary Homzie, charm us with an educational and entertaining story. Main character …
After loving Well, That Was Awkward, I was anxious to read Rachel Vail's latest novel, Bad Best Friend. Vail definitely met my expectations. Dripping with dry humor and sarcasm, you'll …
Wink, a somewhat autobiographical novel by Rob Harrell, is one that takes the tough subject of childhood cancer and faces it head on, but it also adds so much wit and humor that the reader never feels…
This book started out really slowly, and maybe I am impatient, but it seemed like it took until almost halfway through for me to really get some kind of an idea of what Hello Now was about. …
Imagine any movie/book about a mean girl and her vicious mother; they've got nothing on the evil characters in this book, Beatrix and Mrs. Bailey. Unfortunately, main character, Meg, finds herself in …
Willa and the Whale is a sweet, contemporary, realistic middle grade novel--except Willa finds she can talk to a whale and the whale can talk back. (Not a spoiler since this information is …
Yumi, which rhymes with zoomie (and not gummy), is the daughter of Korean immigrant parents. She is eleven-years-old, in the seventh grade, and the main voice of this adventure.
Yumi si…
