CarrieK | February 3, 2010
Title: Spellbinder
Author: Helen Stringer
Genre: Middle grade fantasy
Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: ARC through Shelf Awareness
First line: It was Wednesday.
Belladonna Johnson, the main character in Spellbinder, can see ghosts. And it’s not creepy, only inconvenient, because she often can’t tell the difference between a dead person and an alive one – and [...]
CarrieK | January 22, 2010
Title: Looking for Alaska
Author: John Green
Genre: YA contemporary fiction
Publisher: Dutton Books
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: Print copy from the public library
First line: The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party.
John [...]
CarrieK | December 8, 2009
Title: On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
Author: Andrew Peterson
Genre: Children’s fantasy
Publisher: Waterbrook Press
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Source: I won this book from Jen at Divinest Sense.
First line: The old stories tell that when the first person woke up on the first morning in the world where this tale takes place, he [...]
CarrieK | November 10, 2009
Title: The Sky Inside
Author: Clare B. Dunkle
Genre: Middle grade dystopian fiction
Publisher: Ginee Seo Books
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Source: Audiobook from the public library
First line: The big television cameras of the “You’ve Been Caught Napping Game Show” prowled in the darkness at the edge of the set.
Martin Glass is the 12-year-old protagonist of The Sky [...]
CarrieK | November 6, 2009
Last week, I finished reading The Purloined Boy, the first book in The Weirdling Cycle, aloud to my four kids. They loved it as much as I did the first time I read it – they were riveted as I read the last chapter, and there were groans all around when they realized that they [...]
CarrieK | October 26, 2009
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CarrieK | October 23, 2009
Last week, Jonathan wanted to get in on the whole “do a post on Mom’s blog so I don’t have to do my grammar assignment” deal, and who was I to argue? Here’s his list of favorites:
Goblins! An UnderEarth Adventure by Royce Buckingham
Jonathan’s thoughts: It’s about these two boys going underground to the land [...]
CarrieK | October 16, 2009
I talked Noah into doing a list of his five favorite books for me. Actually, I bribed him by substituting this list for the three-paragraph expository essay he was assigned for grammar this week. Here are Noah’s favorites.
The Fire Within by Chris D’Lacey
Noah’s thoughts: This book is about a college student who rents [...]