The Hundred Dresses is a short realistic fiction novella by Eleanor Estes that received a Newbery Honor in 1945. It is a story, based in ...

A Swiftly Tilting Planet is the third book in Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet. Based on comments here and on Goodreads, I expected to li...

Born on Christmas Day, Carol is the youngest member of the Bird family and the only girl. At age ten, she is gravely ill and confined to h...

Dragons in the Waters was published in 1976, three years after A Wind in the Door . Though Poly O’Keefe, her brother Charles, and their f...

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...