Elizabeth Ann has always lived with her Great-aunt Harriet and Harriet’s daughter, Frances. Aunt Harriet and Aunt Frances coddle Elizabeth...

Knee-Deep in Ice Cream is similar to Grasshoppers in the Soup , Naylor’s collection of short YA vignettes, but this book has just one m...

Now that they have permission to play the Egypt Game, it doesn’t seem as interesting to sixth graders April and Melanie. After some consid...

When her mother goes to a conference for a few days, Anastasia is convinced it will be a piece of cake to take over the housekeeping and l...

In mid-October, I was lucky enough to be in the audience at one of my local libraries as Phyllis Reynolds Naylor kicked off her tour for t...

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...

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...