by michaeld | Mar 1, 2013 | Tweens
If it gets the kids to read. It’s worth it. by David Borgenicht, Molly Smith, Brendan Walsh, Robin Epstein Chronicle Books, $16.99, 144 pages Sixty-three different events, places, or animals are featured in The Worst Case Scenario Survive-O-Pedia:...
by Site Owner | May 21, 2012 | Tweens
By Janet Tashjian Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, $13.99, 256 pages Derek has normal kid problems…book reports, unfathomable girls, a pet that keeps getting into trouble (OK, the pet is a monkey). Then he unexpectedly ends up with a job as a stuntboy in a movie....
by Site Owner | May 20, 2012 | Young Adult
By Kristen Tracy Delacorte Press, $15.99, 305 pages Bessica Lefter has a plan. Going to a new school deserves creating a whole new Bessica. Of course, not everything will be new. Her old best friend Sylvie will be backing up the new Bessica; except a twist of fate...
by Site Owner | May 13, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
By Margaret Truman Forge, $24.99, 368 pages Monument to Murder, Margaret Truman’s latest “Capital Crimes” novel, bounces back and forth between Savannah and Washington D.C. When Robert Brixton, an ex-Savannah cop turned private eye, is hired to find out if...
by Site Owner | Apr 13, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By Heike Gortemaker Alfred A. Knopf, $27.95, 324 pages Perhaps there’s a good reason biographers neglected Adolf Hitler’s mistress and wife, Eva Braun. Both committed suicide and had their personal papers destroyed, leaving just the recollections of others....
