Tag: Reviews

My camping out at the library paid off in me being one of the first to read Specials, the last of the Uglies trilogy…

Sometimes it just doesn’t take much to rock the boat. Quiet Anna and her fearless buddy, Zoe, have been best friends since they were…

The Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knight is a book of short fairytales from the European tradition that include a fair number of more…

Probably the funniest thing about Vivian Vande Velde’s quick-paced novel, Dragon’s Bait is the idea that dragons aren’t really all that into, um, young…

Young Warriors, the thoughtful and creative anthology edited by Josepha Sherman (I look forward to reading one of her books) and Tamora Pierce, pulls…

First published in 1974 (then made into an horrific movie in 1977), this oldie by the prolific Joan Aiken is back in print. Its…

I remember when I was eight asking our German next-door neighbor, Petra, if her family were Nazis. I cringe when I think how painful…

THIS book is frothy and fun, and I was amused to find it had a sequel in the make. Introducing Vivian Leigh Reid, Daughter…

First of all, I don’t know who decided that Candas Jane Dorsey’s A Paradigm of Earth was a YA novel. Not that it wasn’t…