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Cate of the Lost Colony by Lisa Klein

Posted by Sherry on 9/2/2010 in 2010, General, History, Young Adult Fiction

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 [...]

 
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What I Learned from Psalm 18

Posted by Sherry on 8/25/2010 in BIble Reading Project, Children's Fiction, General, Music and Hymns, Poets and poetry

At least three book titles of books that I have read and enjoyed come from this psalm: Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle, The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth Speare, and Hind’s Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard. Many Waters is a retelling of the story of Noah from the Bible. Ms. L’Engle takes quite a [...]

 
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Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper

Posted by Sherry on 8/5/2010 in 2010, Children's Fiction, General

Melody is eleven years old, and she’s just about the most intelligent kid in her elementary school. However, no one knows how smart Melody really is because she can’t speak. And she can’t walk. And she can’t write or hold a book or feed herself. Melody has CP, cerebral palsy. The entire story is told [...]

 
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Exposure by Mal Peet

Posted by Sherry on 6/8/2010 in 2009, Adult Fiction, Young Adult Fiction

Wow! Carnegie Medal winner Mal Peet has written a different book about fame, much more sophisticated than Claim to Fame (see below). Inspired by Shakespeare’s Othello, this novel is focused, not so much on jealousy, but on the perils and tragedies of celebrity. Otello is a soccer star, a black man who’s just signed a [...]

 
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Claim to Fame by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Posted by Sherry on 6/7/2010 in 2009, General, Young Adult Fiction

“This is my secret. I would call it a hidden talent, but talents are supposed to be happy possessions, something to rejoice over and nurture and maybe even gloat about. My secret skill has brought me nothing but pain. At any given moment I can hear anything anybody says about me., anywhere in the world.” [...]

 
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For the Win by Cory Doctorow

Posted by Sherry on 6/7/2010 in 2010, 2010 Projects, 48-Hour Book Challenge, General, Young Adult Fiction

Book #3 for Mother Reader’s 48 Hour Book Challenge Reading TIme: 5 hours Pages: 475 Workers of the World Unite! Let the Games Begin! It’s The Sting (Robert Redford, Paul Newman) on steroids and inside/outside a computer game! Mr. Doctorow knows a lot about economics and about computers and computer games. I don’t know much [...]

 
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The Long Way Home by Andrew Klavan

Posted by Sherry on 6/5/2010 in 2010, 2010 Projects, 48-Hour Book Challenge, General, Young Adult Fiction

Book #2 for Mother Reader’s 48 Hour Book Challenge Reading TIme: 2.25 hours Pages: 345 Andrew Klavan takes a subtle dig at his own book in a paragraph near the middle of The Long Way Home, the second book in the Homelanders series of YA thrillers. “I missed Rick and Miler and Josh. I missed [...]

 
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Countdown by Deborah Wiles

Posted by Sherry on 6/5/2010 in 2010, 2010 Projects, 48-Hour Book Challenge, Children's Fiction, General, History

Book #1 for Mother Reader’s 48 Hour Book Challenge Reading TIme: 2.5 hours Pages: 378 So Countdown is a “documentary novel” taking place in the fall of 1962 near Andrews Air Force Base. Franny Chapman is in fifth grade, and she has a lot going on in her life. Her best friend Margie is suddenly [...]

 
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Mother Reader’s 48-Hour Book Challenge

Posted by Sherry on 6/5/2010 in 2010, 2010 Projects, 48-Hour Book Challenge, Children's Fiction, General

I waffled back and forth and over and under about whether or not to join in on Mother Reader’s 48-Hour Book Challenge. I can’t really participate for 48 hours during the time of the challenge, but I decided to start at 12:30 today, June 5th and finish on Monday morning for my own 43 1/2 [...]

 
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Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Posted by Sherry on 6/4/2010 in 2008, Children's Fiction

OK, this one is easily the best children’s fiction title I’ve read this year. It has all the following strengths: 1. It’s funny. Cf. the first chapter, entitled “I Am Not Exactly in the Lake District.” What makes that funny is that Liam, the thirteen year old protagonist and narrator of this adventure story, is [...]

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