by michaeld | Jan 15, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
Don’t Let Your Kid Leave Preschool without an Introduction to Virginia Woolf! By Kyo Maclear & Isabelle Arsenault Kids Can Press, $16.95, 32 pages Virginia Wolf is a darling new children’s book by Kyo Maclear and Isabelle Arsenault. It is very...
by michaeld | Jan 5, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Young Adult
By Joan Steinau Lester Zondervan, $15.99, 222 pages “Why do I have all these humongous issues when all other girls have to worry only about how good their hair looks?” complains 15-year-old Nina Armstrong, protagonist of Joan Steinau Lester’s...
by michaeld | Nov 5, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Young Adult
The Exciting Sequel to Maze Runner By James Dashner Delecorte, 368 pages, $17.99 The Scorch Trials is James Dashner’s second novel in the Maze Runner Trilogy. Teenagers who enjoyed The Maze Runner, or who have an interest in post-apocalyptic,...
by Site Owner | Nov 2, 2012 | Young Adult
By Mary Downing Hahn Clarion Books, 16.99, 330 pages Mister Death’s Blue-Eyed Girls by Mary Downing Hahn is a chilling tale of a brutal murder set in an otherwise peaceful small town of the 1950s. Hahn is experienced in winding tales of fictional phantoms, but...
by Site Owner | Oct 29, 2012 | Young Adult
This is What Happens When Your Video Game Comes to Life By Sean Austin AAA Reality Games, $11.99, 296 pages Imagine that you master a video game; in virtual reality, you defeat a villain that is pure predator. Now imagine that this villain has come to...