title: Dorothy Must Die author: Danielle Paige date: Harper, 2014 main character: Amy Gumm young adult fiction We all cheered for Dorothy to find the Wizard and make her way back home to Kansas. We loved Glinda’s sparkle and the shine of the yellow brick road, but sometimes too much ‘good’ just isn’t all… Read More book review: Dorothy Must Die
Some of the things I’ve been involved with probably stand out in your memory more than others. One of those things worth remembering has to be the Large Fears controversy. I was involved in it, but it wasn’t about me. While we remember it as being about Meg Rosoff, it really wasn’t. It was about the… Read More “Lesson Learned: Catching Up With ‘Large Fears’ Author, Myles E. Johnson”
I’ve been at conferences for the past two weekends. I’d hoped to blog a little about the first one before going to the second one, but that just didn’t happen. A combined post may lead me to better thoughts and insights. The weekend of 1 & 2 April I was at the Faculty Women of… Read More Conferring
title: Booked author: Kwame Alexander date: HMH; April 2016 main character: Nicholas (Nick) Hall Middle Grade Fiction Eighth grade is a grade filled with growing up and this is especially true if your name is Nick Hall. Nick and his mother are quite close but he has a strained relationship with his father. Poor relationships… Read More review: Booked by Kwame Alexander
Meet Marly: Marly Book 1 by Alice Pung; Penguin Books Australia. Ages 8-12. It’s 1983 and Marly is just trying to fit in at Sunshine Primary School. But being a refugee from Vietnam doesn’t make things easy, and when Marly’s cousins come to stay and end up at the same school, her friends make fun… Read More April Releases (middle grade and YA)
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