by Site Owner | Apr 5, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
By Annelore Parot Chronicle Children’s, $17.99, 32 pages On the surface Kokeshi Kimono Book is a simple book about several young Japanese school girls, each posing a different question for the reader about their clothes, home, or family that the reader can...
by Site Owner | Apr 2, 2012 | Tweens
By Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver Scholastic, $5.99, 170 pages When 11-year-old Billy moves into a new house with his newly blended family in Ghost Buddy, he thinks the worst thing about it is a pink and purple bedroom. That was before he met Hoover Porterhouse III,...
by Site Owner | Mar 23, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
By Margaret Truman, Forge, 368 pages – Secrets Worth Killing For – “Mitzi won’t be happy knowing that there’s someone in town who thinks she might have been involved in a twenty-year-old homicide.” “And if our first lady might...
by Site Owner | Mar 8, 2012 | Tweens
by Nikalas Catlow and Tim Wesson Nosy Crow, $6.99, 94 pages In Mega Mash-Up Robots vs. Gorillas in the Desert, gorillas and robots co-exist peacefully trading bananas and oil until there’s an argument. While settling their differences with a desert race, they run into...
by Site Owner | Feb 20, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
by Giles Milton Thomas Dunne Books, $25.99, 335 pages World War II is one of the few wars that most people view as black and white. “They” were the bad guys. “We” were the good guys. Author Giles Milton brings out the shades of gray so often overlooked in Nazi Germany...
