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June 23, 2014

Monday Review: THIS ONE SUMMER by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki

The awesome team of Canadian cousins behind the wonderful graphic novel Skim (reviewed here) is back with a thoughtful, sometimes-wistful, sometimes-wrenching, always poignant look…

June 17, 2014

Now Reading: BREAKFAST SERVED ANYTIME by Sarah Combs

I haven’t done a “Now Reading” post in a while. I was planning to do more of these—blog posts that happen mid-read, just reactions…

June 3, 2014

TURNING PAGES: THIRTY SUNSETS, by Christine Hurley Deriso

This is necessarily going to be a short book blurb. It’s hard to review a book like this one, where so much of what…

May 13, 2014

TURNING PAGES: A TIME TO DANCE, by Padma Venkatraman

This book pretty well had me at the cover. Like Venkatraman’s earlier novel, CLIMBING THE STAIRS (and WOW, the Spanish language cover of that…

April 8, 2014

TURNING PAGES: BIG FAT DISASTER, by Beth Fehlbaum

“The truth is not always pretty. It can be disturbing, enraging, and enlightening. I found my way out of Hell by choosing Truth, and,…

April 7, 2014

Cybils Finalist Review: ROSE UNDER FIRE by Elizabeth Wein

Full disclosure: the author of Cybils finalist Rose Under Fire, Elizabeth Wein, is a blogging/writing friend of ours. Yes, that did make me excited…

April 4, 2014

TURNING PAGES: BLUE GOLD, by Elizabeth Stewart

This is an important book. I’m hesitant to use the word “worthy,” because that sounds earnest and a little uncomfortable, but — that is…

March 31, 2014

Cybils Finalist Review: OUT OF THE EASY by Ruta Sepetys

One of this year’s Cybils finalist titles in YA Fiction was Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys, who wrote the much-acclaimed Between Shades…

March 27, 2014

Cybils Finalist Review: ELEANOR & PARK by Rainbow Rowell

I’m a bit late in coming to this one. I was late in reading it, too, by the time it crossed my desk for…

March 18, 2014

TURNING PAGES: THESE GENTLE WOUNDS, by Helene Dunbar

I’m not generally a fan of weeping, though I do it at Cheerios commercials, when reading Dear Sugar, when watching little kids do just…

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