Claribel Ortega

The One Where I Review All the Young at Heart Book Club Picks, Finally.

Ghost Squad by Claribel Ortega

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

May 27, 2021 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

I read these books all together for our Young at Heart book club so it only feels right to review them all together. Our goal for book club was to find book selections that reminded us of childhood in order to (hopefully) inspire a bit of lighthearted nostalgia. For the most part, these books succeeded on that metric for me. Ghost Squad – 4 stars Up first is Claribel Ortega’s Ghost Squad. I often have trouble sinking into Middle Grades books – it is where […]

Book Club Discussion Post: Ghost Squad

May 21, 2021 by faintingviolet 7 Comments

Welcome to our Young at Heart book club! This go round we’ve selected three books that reminded us of childhood in order to hopefully have a bit of lighthearted nostalgia. Each of our three books – Judy Blume’s Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Claribel Ortega’s Ghost Squad – have their own Discussion Posts and don’t forget, we’ll be having our first ever Zoom* Book Club on Saturday May 22 at 7 pm EDT. (*Sign up […]

Reminder! The Young at Heart #CannonBookClub is Coming Soon!

May 11, 2021 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

Hello my lovely fellow Cannonballers! We are 10 days away from our first #CannonBookClub of 2021 – Young at Heart. Our books this time are Judy Blume’s Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Claribel Ortega’s Ghost Squad. Choose one or more and join us to chat about these (hopefully) nostalgic stories. We’ll have three discussion posts – one for each book – here on the site starting May 21 as well as Discussion posts on Social Media. Then on […]

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