One of  the first things I loved about this book was something I read on the book jacket. The author, Laura Amy Schlitz, originally wro...

I’ll start by saying I am a big fan of realistic fiction, and a really big fan of books set in small hard luck towns. So the fact that L...

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis was the 2000 Newbery Medal winner, but because it was published in 1999, while I was still in hi...