In March 2011 I found 16 MG & YA releases, in 2012 I found 4 and this year, 6. Nonetheless, this looks like a pretty impressive list of books! All are very establish authors. (clicking the image will take you to a description of the book.) The Keysha Diaries, Volume One: Keysha’s Drama\If… Read More March Releases, 2013
Title: Out of My Mind author: Sharon Draper date: Atheneum; March 2010 main character: Melody Brooks Melody is an 11 year old 5th grader who spends much of her day in a pink wheelchair but, as Melody says, the pink doesn’t make it cute, it’s still a wheelchair. Melody’s got a mom and a dad,… Read More review: Out of My Mind
book review: Fire from the Rock author: Sharon Draper publisher: Speak; 2008 main character: Sylvia Patterson “Great fiction comes from powerful realities.” Thus states Sharon Draper as she describes her own past that was woven into Fire from the rock. Draper was a child in 1957, the year this story takes place. One of her… Read More book review: Fire from the Rock
