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“I, Claudia Kincaid, want to be different when I go back. Like being a heroine is being different.”

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Koningsburg

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On a recent in person trip to the library (a luxury in these pandemic times) I scoured the kiddo section looking for things that might appeal to my 11 year old. He wasn’t present, so I was casting a wide net about what would pique his interest. (I average one winning selection for about every 5 mehs, so it’s a bit of a numbers game). My eyes landed on this book, and I was instantly transported back to my youth. I couldn’t have told you […]

In Which Our Intrepid Reader Takes a Trip Down Memory Lane

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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“It was a dark and stormy night.”  The opening of this book imprinted itself on my ten-year-old brain in ways I didn’t fully realize until I returned to it over four decades later. I first read A Wrinkle in Time in 1975 when my grandmother, a children’s librarian, gave me a copy for my birthday.  It wasn’t just any copy; it was a signed copy that my grandmother had purchased in 1963 when she attended the Newberry-Caldecott award dinner in Chicago—almost two years before my […]

“Turning into a mean-eyed lunch-kicker won’t help anything!”

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

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In addition to reading for fun and to fight cancer, I’m also doing a book challenge with some work friends. The books we have to read are:  a book published this year  a book published year you were born  a book you’ve been meaning to read  a book recommended by you librarian/bookseller/others doing the challenge  a book you should have read in school  a book chosen for you by a spouse/partner/sibling/child/BFF/others doing the challenge  a book published before you were born  a book that was banned […]

A Series of Cool Stories That Somehow Fit Together

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

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The title of this review explains a lot about the book. A boy’s parents were killed by a man named Jack. The boy wanders to a graveyard, then he gets taken in by the spirits. They don’t know what to do with him and then a Lady in Grey comes and tells them to take him in. He doesn’t know his own name cause he’s only a little boy so they call him Nobody. His guardian is not necessarily human, but as soon as you […]



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