“Summerlost” author Ally Condie has a way of developing characters you immediately care about. It only takes a few pages to get you hooked.
Browsing: middle grade review
“The Cat Who Came in Off the Roof” was written in 1970, and the author passed away in 1995. Translator David Colmer has modernized the tale without losing the sharp, clean prose that makes it comfortable and inviting.
“A Curious Tale of the In-Between” is engrossing. The story is interesting on its own, but it’s the main character that makes this story sing.
Jennifer Brown’s “How Lunchbox Jones Saved Me From Robots, Traitors, and Missy the Cruel” is unlike anything I’ve read in a long time, and that’s a good thing.
“THE DISAPPEARANCE OF EMILY H.,” by Barrie Summy, Delacorte Books for Young Readers, May 12, 2015, Hardcover, $16.99 (ages 10…
“THE FRIENDSHIP RIDDLE,” by Megan Frazer Blakemore, Bloomsbury USA Childrens, May 5, 2015, Hardcover, $16.99 (ages 8-12) In February 2013,…
“THE SECRET HUM OF A DAISY,” by Tracy Holczer, Putnam, May 1, 2014, Hardcover, $16.99 (ages 10 and up) People…
“THE SHADOW THRONE: Book 3 of The Ascendance Trilogy,” by Jennifer A. Nielsen, Scholastic Press, Feb. 25, 2014, $17.99 (ages…
“THE WATER CASTLE,” by Megan Frazer Blakemore, Walker Children’s, Jan. 8, 2013, Hardcover, $16.99 (ages 10 and up) Is magic…
“THE EXPEDITIONERS AND THE TREASURE OF THE DROWNED MAN’S CANYON,” McSweeney’s McMullen’s, December 2012, Hardcover, $22 (ages 10 and up)…