First Daughter Extreme American Makeover by Mitali Perkins Dutton Children’s Books, 2007. 278 pages. www.penguin.com/youngreaders http://www.mitaliperkins.com/ http://www.sparrowblog.com/ Sameera Righton’s father is running for President of the United States. She’s leaving…
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale Reviewed January 8, 2008. Bloomsbury, New York, 2007. 306 pages. Starred Review. Sonderbooks Stand-out 2008: #1, Teen Fiction I picked up…
The New Yorker Book of Kids* Cartoons *and the people who live with them edited by Robert Mankoff introduction by Roz Chast Reviewed September 17, 2007. Bloomberg Press, Princeton, 2001.…
Specials by Scott Westerfeld Reviewed September 15, 2007. Simon Pulse, New York, 2006. 372 pages. Specials is the dramatic conclusion to Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies trilogy. As before, I don’t want…