Middle Grade Lit

Audiobook Review: Ella Enchanted

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine is a reread for me, though the audiobook narrated by Eden Riegel is a brand new experience. It has been years--years!--since I've read EE....

Mini Reviews: A Mish Mash

Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn Dolamore: I really liked this book. The premise is...different: a showgirl is plucked from obscurity to sing with a wealthy...

Book Review: One Crazy Summer

I wished I hadn't opened up that newspaper. I wished I could go right on thinking we were having breakfast, painting signs, and learning our rights. I wished I didn't know...

Book Reviews: Percy Jackson #3-5

My promise to my daughter has been fulfilled. She read all seven of the Harry Potter books (well, we listened to them together), so I have read all five of the Percy...

Audiobook Reviews: December

The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis, narrated by LeVar Burton:  This book is hilarious. We seriously spent most of the book laughing at all of the...

Audiobook Review: Eleven

"You are not the boss of everything just because you wear a bra!" My daughter loves the Winnie books. LOVES. So when she saw the audiobook version of Eleven by Lauren Myracle...

Mini Reviews: Fiction

As I said in my previous post, I am really far behind, so mini reviews! Some of these date back to October, just to give a clue at how far behind I am. ...

Audiobook Review: Charmed Life

"You must have made a mistake," Cat said distractedly. "I didn't drown because I was holding on to Gwendolen, and she's a witch." Oh, Diana Wynne Jones, how are you so...

Book Review: Rich and Famous Like My Mom

Another street lady, I decided, and suddenly it seemed to me that I was peeking into another whole world. There we were, Mom and me with Agnes and Sebastian and Adolph, and...