by Site Owner | Feb 6, 2012 | Historical Fiction, Young Adult
by Vicky Alvear Shecter Scholastic, $18.99, 356 pages When Cleopatra and Mark Anthony, the rulers of Eygpt, were overthrown by Octavius and died, they left several children behind. Cleopatra’s Moon, told by her daughter, eleven year old Cleopatra Selene, tells the...
by Site Owner | Jan 25, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Romance, Science Fiction
by Stacey Jay Delacorte Press, $17.99, 308 pages Romeo and Juliet is the ultimate love story… a love so great the lovers would rather die than live without each other. Unless Shakespeare got it wrong. What if Romeo sacrificed Juliet to gain eternity? After that...
by Site Owner | Jan 20, 2012 | Tweens
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: Junior Edition. Each feature is covered in two pages that...
by Site Owner | Dec 16, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Self-Help
by Karen Benke Shambhala Publications, $14.95, 256 pages Rip the Page! Adventures in Creative Writing is part educational, part assignment, and part examples by famous, and not-so-famous, writers. The book is divided into almost 100 mini-chapters to get the reader’s...
by Site Owner | Oct 6, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Romance
by Elizabeth Camden Bethany House, $14.99, 336 pages As teenagers Clara Endicott and Daniel Tremain seem an impossible pair: the wealthy reverend’s beautiful daughter and the penniless steel mill worker’s angry son. After being separated by an ocean and twelve years...
