The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith
What the Hell’s an Alex Crow? The Alex Crow: unbridled imagination, inspired (and inspiring) storytelling. Andrew Smith’s tale isn’t for...
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NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo is on the Horizon. But last week I was only thinking about NaNoWriMo. I was busy, on the road,...
Serendipity
On December 20, 1991, I was unemployed. Not destitute, mind you (this isn’t a story about facing Christmas with a...
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Wow! There are a few books I’ve read that deserve their own category, their own frame of reference or comparison....
Nobody Saw Anything
Twenty-four years ago this month, my first book for young readers, Someone Was Watching, was published by Albert Whitman. Not...
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Sometimes you read an award-winning book and you think, Hmm. Sometimes you think, Good choice. And then you read one...
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
I listened to the audio book and then had to actually “read” it a couple of years ago. And I...
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
Strong writing, captivating story, and the characters are uniformly three dimensional. The protagonist, Annabelle, is 99% goodness, but that didn’t...
Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin
Win the race. Kill Hitler. Or die trying. There you go. That’s the story. Sorry about the spoilers (not really–those...
