Tag: Sherlock Holmes Files 100 year old secret by Tracy Barrett

Book Review 37: The Sherlock Files: The 100-Year-Old Secret by Tracy Barrett

Cute, short book. I love the main characters’ names, Xena and Xander. I always thought if I ever had a boy, if he wasn’t a “Junior” of his father, I’d want to name him Xander, of course I now like the name Cullen too. Both my names are from my favorite vampire series, Xander from […]

Posted October 18, 2009 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments

Book Review 36: The Totally Made-up Civil War Diary of Amanda MacLeish by Claudia Mills

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 […]

Posted October 17, 2009 by Lisa Mandina in / 0 Comments