by Dawn | Jul 27, 2009 | Humor
Meet Maybelle, the cockroach, who lives with the Peabodys, their cat, Ramona, and her best friend, Henry, a flea. Now Maybelle has an adventurous spirit, and, on this day, she has decided to live the good life and taste the soup at Mrs. Peabody’s dinner party....
by Dawn | Jul 27, 2009 | Fiction
Winner of the 2009 Newbery Medal Oh, this is a good one. Now, to warn you, it starts out pretty graphically, and you may wonder if this is a good book for kids or not. Well, I wouldn’t hand it to anyone under ten, but it’s a blockbuster for the rest of us....
by Dawn | Jul 27, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
I picked this book up to read after hearing Alan Sitomer speak at a conference. I didn’t realize I was coming in to the last book of a trilogy. If you have readers who are captured by life on the streets and gang warfare, here is the answer. The book opens with...
by Dawn | Mar 24, 2009 | Mystery
When Michael and Molly’s mother marries the father of 5-year-old Heather, the two families move into a house out in the country, next to a graveyard. Heather is no prize, but, little by little, Molly begins to see that Heather is being pulled into another world...
by Dawn | Mar 24, 2009 | Historical Fiction
What are the roots of your family? This is a look back to the Civil War and the lives of the family members at that time. A steamboat pulls up and off come two mysterious women. There’s Calinda, who cooks and makes medicine, and her companion, Delphine, age 15,...
