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I did something a little crazy. I signed up for a six-week online class. The class is The Newbery Medal: Past, Present, and Future. I wasn’t going to sign up,…
I did something a little crazy. I signed up for a six-week online class. The class is The Newbery Medal: Past, Present, and Future. I wasn’t going to sign up,…
I’m going to KidLitCon 2009! Ever since I participated in Mother Reader’s 48-Hour Reading Challenge, I’ve been meaning to do more blogging on this blog, and not only post reviews.…
How to Ditch Your Fairy, by Justine Larbalestier Bloomsbury, 2008. 304 pages. Starred Review. Have you ever known someone who never gets in trouble no matter what they do? Or…
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…