Sonderbooks 106: Book Reviews by Sondra Eklund

Sonderbooks 106

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Welcome to Sonderbooks, an e-zine of book reviews by Sondra Eklund.
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I've had another difficult month, still not quite back to normal after surgery. On the good side, I got lots of books read. On the bad side, I got way behind on writing the reviews. I finally decided to post the reviews I've already written and save the rest for my next issue, hoping to post it in a couple of weeks.

Happy Reading!

April 24, 2006

Nonfiction

*****NOT "Just Friends," by Shirley P. Glass, PhD

****You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again, by Suzanne Hansen
***The Unmistakable Touch of Grace, by Cheryl Richardson

***You're Wearing THAT? by Deborah Tannen

***Money, a Memoir, by Liz Perle

Fiction

***The Plot To Save Socrates, by Paul Levinson

***Irish Crystal, by Andrew M. Greeley

Young Adult Fiction

*****Ptolemy's Gate, by Jonathan Stroud

***So Yesterday, by Scott Westerfeld

***Marly's Ghost, by David Levithan

***First Impressions, by Marilyn Sachs

Children's Nonfiction

***Math Potatoes, by Greg Tang, illustrated by Harry Briggs

Children's Fiction

***It Happened at School, by Susie Morgenstern, illustrated by Serge Bloch

Old Favorite

(Nonfiction): ****The Irrational Season, by Madeleine L'Engle

Picture Book Pick

****The Wolf's Story, by Toby Forward, illustrated by Izhar Cohen

Quotation of the Month

“The strange turning of what seemed to be a horrendous No to a glorious Yes is always the message of Easter.”

—Madeleine L'Engle, in The Irrational Season

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