“Mirror, Mirror, on the wall…” This is a ‘companion’ novel to Ella Enchanted. Based in the adjoining kingdom of Ayortha, it even mentions Ella at the end! The sister of the main character of this b…
What would you think if all of a sudden, everything (and I do mean everything) that went into your mouth or touched your lips turned to chocolate? Eggs, bacon, water, milk, juice, your leather gloves…
We usually think of success as being the product of simple hard work—but is it? In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell challenges this idea, showing that success depends on a lot more than hard work alone. In …
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman is probably the book that instigated my addiction to children’s literature. This book has the complexity, themes, and depth to reach an audience beyond childr…
Alice-Miranda at School is an adorable tale of a peppy little girl who is seven and one-quarter years old. But don’t be fooled by her innocent smile and brown chocolate curls! This little philanthro…
Growing up, my mom had an old, battered paperback copy of The Family Nobody Wanted. When I was about five, while learning the finer points of reading in the bathtub, I dropped it in the water! I read …
Meet Mary Russell. Brilliant, lonely, and orphaned, she just happens to stumble onto someone while walking and reading a book. That person is none other than the imitable Sherlock Holmes! From that…
Hats off and congratulations to Orson Scott Card in Pathfinder for being brave enough, crazy enough, and brilliant enough to tackle time travel and not have the story implode! Pathfinder begins as r…
As a person who has spent a significant portion of her life in doctor's offices and hospitals, a book that promised to give a look at the world of medicine from the other side of the exam table immedi…
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is a lyrical fable, simply told, of an Andalusian shepherd boy searching for his destiny and his treasure. Stylistically, one can almost hear an ancient storyteller unfol…
“Merely to live, merely to exist—what sense is there in that? A fly also lives!” So states the father of Reuven Malter, a young jewish boy in America. In The Chosen we meet Reuven and Danny Saunder…
I have loved the Chronicles of Narnia all my life. As a child, I loved to read them because the story was magical! I imagined in my mind the journey of Lucy, Edmund, Peter and Susan as they discover…
