After the real-life adventure of the Walkers in We Didn’t Mean to go to Sea , it was hard for me to imagine how Arthur Ransome could con...

Nothing Special  is the sequel to  Stupid Fast . This second book about Felton Reinstein deals with the aftermath of the physical and emot...

The Last Holiday Concert is a heartwarming holiday tale by Andrew Clements. Like his other books, this is a school story, and the focus is...

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is a book I always intended to read as a kid, but then never did. Like some of the characters in the stor...

I have to be in a certain mood to read L’Engle’s books about Meg Murry, which is why it took me a while to get to the next one on my lis...

I am neither male nor sporty, but I have always loved young adult realistic fiction with male narrators and sports themes. How I managed t...

The Hobbit is one of those books I have always intended to read. As a kid, I was deeply disturbed by watching part of the Rankin-Bass mov...