My latest reading assignment for #YearOfHarryPotter was Chapters 5-8 in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: "Weasley's Wizard Wh...

Eleven-year-old James Johnson lives in Appalachia, where he is part of a musical family, but not a performer himself. While his parents an...

This past weekend, I got the two older girls to help me, and we re-shelved all the books that had been left hanging around after my mom brou...

In this vintage middle grade novel originally published in 1957, Jimmy Carter (no relation to the man who would later become president) is...

I have read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire exactly once in my life before this, so I've really been looking forward to this re-...

Hitty, the title character of this 1930 Newbery Medal winning novel, is a doll made of mountain-ash wood who lives in the present day (192...

This week, I read Chapter 20 ("The Dementor's Kiss"), Chapter 21 ("Hermione's Secret"), and Chapter 22 (...