Making Good

This is a story about a Antonina, a Polish woman and zookeeper’s wife, during World War II. Her story is told by Diane Ackerman, who uses Antonina’s journal to create a real and true story about Antonina’s family and their experiences during the German invasion of Poland in the early 1940s. This book was probably […]

This book is so cool! It’s a kid’s non fiction book that shows you what a million dots looks like , with some interesting facts about the nature and the world on each page. Here are some of my favorite facts from the book: The sun has a diameter of 864, 948 miles – wide […]

I watched this movie over the Christmas holidays last year and loved it. I love fantasy romance adventures like this one – the story was clever so I wanted to read the book. I liked the movie better – a rarity. The story is about a fallen star rescued/captured by young Tristran Thorn whose objective […]

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli is an inspiring story about being yourself. Stargirl Caraway is so different from her peers – she wears old fashioned and bright clothing, adorns her school desk with a flower and table cloth, and sings Happy Birthday to people at lunch while playing her ukelele. Stargirl experiences a moment of popularity […]

I was really excited about this book before reading it and a little disappointed after. It was a good story but the writing was hard at times to follow. This could be because I mostly read this book when over tired, so it’s possible that if I read it again I would really like it. […]

This book by Jim Trelease was full of excellent information about kids and media, reading in particular, but also the effects of television and other forms of print media. I learned so many great things from this book that will help me raise my children to be avid and successful readers. The main message of […]

I enjoyed this one just as much as A Conspiracy of Paper. As likeable and charismatic as ever, Benjamin Weaver returns as the thief-taking gentleman. I love how the author sets up the story – a much older Benjamin is retelling a single adventure from his younger days. The story goes forward and backward in […]

I grew up in a small town in Oregon (population 1500 so bigger than her town of 300), so I could really relate to A Girl Named Zippy, by Haven Kimmel. I loved every page of this book, which I was not expecting. I am not big on nonfiction, and I don’t think I’ve ever […]

Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell, is my book club’s selection for April. I’ve just finished and I really enjoyed the story. I love books set in this place and time period (19th century England). The social differences between now and then are so fascinating to me – for example, the way that the upper […]