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Sunday, February 23, 2014

Book Review: The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson (1978)

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Galadriel “Gilly” Hopkins is eleven years old, and has been bounced from foster home to foster home. When she comes to Mrs. Trotter’s hous...
Sunday, February 16, 2014

Book Review: Strider by Beverly Cleary (1991)

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Strider is the sequel to Beverly Cleary’s 1984 Newbery Medal winning novel Dear Mr. Henshaw . Now that Leigh Botts is about to enter high...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

Book Review: Toughboy and Sister by Kirkpatrick Hill (1990)

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Toughboy and Sister is a 1990 middle grade novel by Kirkpatrick Hill, author of one of my favorite books of the past year, Bo at Ballard ...
Sunday, February 2, 2014

Book Review: Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst by Lois Lowry (1984)

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Anastasia is now thirteen years old, and between her annoying family and the unpredictability of the gerbils she brought home for her scie...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Book Review: Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo (2013)

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Flora is a cynic who reads comic books, despite her mother’s insistence that she read literature. Ulysses is a squirrel who is accidentall...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

Book Review: The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (1967)

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When April Hall moves in with her grandmother while her mother remains in Hollywood, the first kids she meets are Melanie Ross and her bro...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Reading Through History: Emily's Runaway Imagination by Beverly Cleary (1961)

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Emily’s Runaway Imagination is a work of historical fiction set in the 1920s, written by Beverly Cleary in the 1960s. The story is set ...