Cate of the Lost Colony by Lisa Klein
I just finished reading this YA historical romance about a fictional lady in the court of Queen Elizabeth I who ends up being banished to Sir Walter Raleigh’s doomed colony on Roanoke Island, and today we read about the Roanoke Colony in our history book (Hakim’s History of the U.S, which I am finding to [...]
Happy Birthday: Celebrating Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino, whose historical fiction book I, Juan de Pareja, won the Newbery Medal in 1966, was born on this date in 1904 in Bakersfield, California. She died at the age of 97 on December 2, 2001. Ms. Borton de Trevino was not Hispanic, but she married a Mexican man and moved with [...]
Suite Scarlett and Scarlett Fever by Maureen Johnson
In Suite Scarlett, Scarlett’s family not only name their children for actors and movie characters, but they also own a dilapidated hotel in NYC. However, the hotel’s about to go bust, and Scarlett’s brother, Spencer, can’t get a handle on his acting career. Fluffy, sometimes witty, slightly unbelievable. The good stuff: snappy dialog, believable and [...]
Sunday Salon: Books Read in July, 2010
Nonfiction: River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard. Semicolon review and thoughts about TR here. Adult fiction: The Big Steal by Emyl Jenkins. Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card. Recommended by Seth Heasley at Collateral Bloggage. Semicolon review here. Young adult and children’s fiction: Princess of Glass by [...]
Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins
I was once a pacifist. When I was in high school I seriously considered becoming a Quaker or Mennonite because I read that those Christian denominations have a history and tradition of pacifism. One small glitch was that there weren’t too many Quakers or Mennonites in San Angelo (West Texas) to encourage me in my [...]
What I Read in South Dakota
My motto is, “Never go anywhere without a book.” Our trip to South Dakota was no exception to this rule. Although we saw beautiful scenery, experienced the inspiration of Mount Rushmore, and enjoyed a day at the lake with family and friends–and I ate more good food than any one person should—, I still managed [...]
Bad Books?
From an article in Touchstone by David Mills: The young adult books I read startled me by how dreary they were, even when they were most chipper. The world they describe is ultimately a trivial and a tawdry and a boring one. There is much evil in them, but the evil does not frighten or [...]
Ice by Sarah Beth Durst
This novelization of the old folk tale “East of the Sun, West of the Moon” is riveting, exciting, and broadly heroic. I’ve been reading Ms. Durst’s blog for a while, and I’ve enjoyed her comedic fractured fairy tales (see here and here, for example). But Ice is not a comedy, even though Cassie, the heroine, [...]
Beautiful by Cindy Martinusen-Coloma
I added Beautiful to my TBR list because it was one of three finalists in the Young Adult fiction category for the 2010 Christy Awards. I just finished the book, and clicked over to the awards site to make sure I had that information right. Lo, and behold, the winners of the Christy Awards for [...]
Escaping the Tiger by Laura Manivong
Ms. Manivong says that this fictional account of a Laotian family trapped in a refugee camp in Thailand after escaping from the Communist Pathet Lao regime in their native country is based on the true story of her husband and his family. “My husband, Troy Anousone Manivong, spent eight months in Na Pho refugee camp [...]
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