First, thanks to Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group and Netgalley for allowing me to read an egalley of this book. I was first intrigued by it because it was set in the state of Missouri, where I live. Second it takes place during the Civil War, a time period that I always find fascinating to read […]
I have to thank one of my fellow teachers for passing this ARC on to me a month or so ago. The author is a friend of one of our art teachers, and I’m actually going to get to meet her when she comes to talk to the students at our school in December. When […]
Book Information: Title: MOLLY LEE Genre: Adventure/Historical Fiction Synopsis:Molly is about to set off on the adventure of a lifetime . . . of two lifetimes.It’s 1861 and the Civil War has just started. Molly is an eighteen-year-old girl living on her family’s farm in Virginia when two deserters from the Southern Cause enter her […]
First I have to say thanks to Simon Pulse and Edelweiss for allowing me to read an e-galley of this title. I am still on the lookout, however, for a physical ARC of this title to match the physical ARC I have of the first book in the series, Compulsion. So if you know of […]
Okay, I haven’t had a chick lit review in a few days, not since last week actually! So thought I’d share one today. The other book has romance in it, but is a great saga kind of book. First is The Next Big Thing by Johanna Edwards. As a single woman who has had several […]
First of course I have to thank Netgalley and Grand Central Publishing for allowing me to read an e-galley of this. I’d actually hoped to get an ARC last summer at BEA. I did get to meet the author, but he was just signing the first book, Abraham Lincoln-Vampire Hunter. I’ll admit I didn’t read […]
I’ve been wanting to read these books for so long. The covers, the title, the premise, it all just sounded so good. But as always, I have such a huge stack of TBR books, that I just never got around to it. At the end of the school year, I decided to check a bunch […]
I have so many books from working this past Wednesday, and then last night, I am going to split this blog into two parts to save myself some time. So check back, hopefully later tonight for the rest. First is going to be Eliza’s Freedom Road by Jerdine Nolen. Now this is really a young […]
I can pinpoint the teachers who led me to some of my quirky favorites in movies. First, my grandpa. No, he wasn’t ever a “teacher” per se, but I do feel that he taught me in many different ways, and shaped a lot of who I am. He was an engineer, and I know it […]
I really enjoyed this one. The main character is Amanda MacLeish, and her school does thematic units where all the classes are doing something about the theme, in this case it is the Civil War. There was a time when middle school teams were supposed to do this, and lately, we’ve gotten so far away […]