Top Ten Tuesday is sponsored by The Broke and The Bookish. The ten authors that I can’t believe I’ve only read 1 book by are: Andrew Smith – I just learned about this author with all the fuss being made over Grasshopper Jungle this year. Now I must read all his books! And get them for […]
Before I begin, I have to say thank you to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Edelweiss for allowing me to read an e-galley of this book. I had been looking forward to this book since I heard there was going to be another book in what I had called the Life As We Knew It series. […]
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine where we spotlight upcoming releases that we’re eagerly awaiting. I haven’t participated since last October! Wow! But then the last few months have been pretty busy. The book I’ve chosen this week is a sequel to a book that I can’t believe took me […]
This book is one on the current Truman nominees list that my students are reading and voting on this school year. It was one that looked really good to me, and I’d been excited to read for awhile. I was able to get a copy for pretty cheap at the school book fair back in […]
I am a little disappointed in myself for not getting all 25 books read this time. I mean one year I read 50, because I ended up getting asked to read for both Truman nominees and Mark Twain nominees. But this year, with doing my September is for Sequels Challenge, that put me a bit […]
This is the last of the 25 books for the possible Truman nominee list that I was able to actually read before the deadline this past Monday. And actually, I didn’t even finish it in time to rate it. But I was halfway through, and needed to see where it went, so I finished it. […]
A short, quick read. But, while the story was pretty good, it was pretty forgettable. Whenever I would go back to read it, I couldn’t remember at first what it was even about. And I also have to say that the cover doesn’t fit it in my opinion. The girl peeking over the top of […]
I’m not a huge fan of this book. It was kind of an interesting story. It’s about a girl, Liza, who is walking home from school one day, when all of a sudden her mother is shot. She passed some guys in a tunnel on her way home, but she didn’t really look at them, […]
While I’ve seen the movie Beastly which was based on the book by this same author, Alex Flinn, this is the first actual book I’ve read by her. I do really enjoy fairy tale re-tellings, and this actually several tales in one. And, as is a bit of the problem I had with Two and […]
This was a cute story. I don’t know that it is the best choice for the Truman list for next year. I think it might actually be a better choice for the Mark Twain award which is the younger award. Yes, the kids in the book are junior high age, which is the age of […]