A few years ago I picked up a copy of Annette Lyon's Band of Sisters. I was instantly impressed by Lyon's strong characterization of five women who become close friends while their…
The Secret Life of Copernicus H. Stringfellow by Lorin Barber is hilarious from page one. Copernicus (Nick) is witty, sarcastic, and a genius powered by Twinkies. Imagine his devastation due to the re…
In the voices of a handful of very different fifth-grade students, Rob Buyea weavs a portrait of the kind of quietly influential teacher every kid needs in their life. I was instantly engaged by the s…
Nobody in Mrs. Pidgeon's second-grade class at Watertower Elementary has ever met a student quite like Gooney Bird Greene—and most readers probably haven't, either! With her wacky fashion, l…
Vanity Fair, Thackeray’s classic Victorian novel, follows the lives of two young graduates from Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies in Chiswick, London. Amelia Sedley is the darling of…
The tagline "When mice do more than point and click" is what initially caught my eye and caused me to pick up Mousenet by Prudence Breitrose. This gentle novel successfully incorporates themes about …
New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen constructs an intriguing and mysterious fable in The Girl Who Chased the Moon. Allen mixes the history and tradition of the South with severa…
The Snow Child is the perfect winter read. Set in the breathtaking Alaskan wilderness, first-time novelist Eowyn Ivey will enchant readers with her artistic and vivid prose. It was downright effortles…
The Invisible Man is yet another H.G. Wells classic that manages to defy the effects of time. An enthralling story with a bit of mystery to it, the reader will find themselves caught up in the tale o…
I had supposed that TAILS OF SPRING BREAK, the second book in the Katie Jordan series by Anne Warren Smith, would evolve around a young girl and her exciting adventures on spring break. However, it wa…
Louie L'Amour is one the great classic western authors. The Riders of High Rock is one of his novels done in the Romantic style, and the main character is the famous Hopalong Cassidy, the character t…
Ashley is an independent woman who doesn't want to be chained down by marriage before she has a chance to have fun. She wants to climb a mountain, see a Broadway show, visit Europe, take a cruise, and…
