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“He was wrong, somehow, and he wanted to be all right, but it was almost as if there was some secret nobody would tell him, so he was always going to be stuck outside.”

Sons from Afar (Tillerman Cycle #6) by Cynthia Voigt

February 28, 2023 by ardaigle Leave a Comment

In book six of The Tillerman Cycle, we spend time with James, the Tillerman family’s deepest thinker, and in many respects, its most troubled family member. Sweet Maybeth, though clearly developmentally disabled, has her siblings to look out for her and though academically challenged, is a popular and beloved classmate. Both younger brother Sammy and older sister Dicey are unwilling to bend to social mores and remain fiercely independent despite the pressures of high school. Despite their gruff exteriors and nonchalance, friends seek them out. […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: 1980's, brothers, Cynthia Voigt, family, Newberry Medal winner

ardaigle's CBR15 Review No:6 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: 1980's, brothers, Cynthia Voigt, family, Newberry Medal winner ·
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“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”

The Giver by Lois Lowry

August 11, 2022 by ardaigle Leave a Comment

Cannonball Read Bingo Square: Minds I have owned a copy of The Giver for quite a while and it has sat collecting dust on our bookshelf reserved for the classics. My kiddo, on a whim, picked it up and when my 13-year-old picks up something that is a classic, I generally take that as an opportunity to revisit it. (See also, failed attempt to get him to read “A Wrinkle in Time.”) When I picked it up to reread, I soon began to wonder if […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, classic, dystopia, Lois Lowry, Newberry Medal winner, The Giver, Young Adult

ardaigle's CBR14 Review No:29 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, classic, dystopia, Lois Lowry, Newberry Medal winner, The Giver, Young Adult ·
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The book Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry is on a blue cloth with fossilized shark teeth next to it

A boy leaves home to prove himself and wisely brings his dog

Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry

August 4, 2021 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

CBR 13 Bingo: The Wilds I originally intended to do a “Lumberjanes” graphic novel for this square but can’t find it!  Instead I read Call It Courage, which was on my summer reading lists as a child but I never got around to reading.  My thirteen year old saw me and said that she had read it for school a few years ago, and that it has a great character arc.  Mafutu does go through transformation and growth but I’m not certain I would qualify […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: Armstrong Sperry, CBR13, cbr13bingo, Children's, Dome'Loki, Fiction, Newberry Medal winner

Dome'Loki's CBR13 Review No:26 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: Armstrong Sperry, CBR13, cbr13bingo, Children's, Dome'Loki, Fiction, Newberry Medal winner ·
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Lightning Round

Tonguebreaker by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Batman Earth One, Vol. 3 by Geoff Johns

Solomon's Vineyard by Jonathan Latimer

Antartica: Journeys to the South Pole by Walter Dean Myers

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

July 12, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

A few reviews of shorter books that I read quickly over the weekend and didn’t have extra time to flesh out… Tonguebreaker ***** Coming to terms with a society that doesn’t want you based on your body…and creating your own space instead…has to be a challenging thing. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha bares her soul to the world in this collection of poems and one-act plays. Her use of language to lecture gripped me and her exploration of what it means to live in this world, to […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Antartica, Batman, Batman Earth One, BIPOC, Disability, exploration, Geoff Johns, Graphic Novel, hardboiled, Jonathan Latimer, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, mystery, New York City, Newberry Medal winner, poetry, Rebecca Stead, Solomon's Vineyard, Tonguebreaker, walter dean myers, Young Adult

Jake's CBR13 Review No:110 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Antartica, Batman, Batman Earth One, BIPOC, Disability, exploration, Geoff Johns, Graphic Novel, hardboiled, Jonathan Latimer, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, mystery, New York City, Newberry Medal winner, poetry, Rebecca Stead, Solomon's Vineyard, Tonguebreaker, walter dean myers, Young Adult ·
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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

February 14, 2021 by ardaigle 3 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: classics revisited, E.L. Konigsburg, E.L. Koningsburg, from the mixed-up files of mrs. basil e. frankenweiler, Newberry Medal winner

ardaigle's CBR13 Review No:8 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: classics revisited, E.L. Konigsburg, E.L. Koningsburg, from the mixed-up files of mrs. basil e. frankenweiler, Newberry Medal winner ·
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In Which Our Intrepid Reader Takes a Trip Down Memory Lane

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

March 17, 2018 by Jenny S 2 Comments

“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 […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy Tagged With: A Wrinkle in Time, Childhood Favorites, Madeleine L'Engle, Newberry Medal winner

Jenny S's CBR10 Review No:11 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy · Tags: A Wrinkle in Time, Childhood Favorites, Madeleine L'Engle, Newberry Medal winner ·
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