In the end, you will fail to save that which matters most. My daughter is a Percy Jackson fangirl. (How big of a fangirl? She was practically inconsolable when the series...
"No, Meg. Don't hope it was a dream. I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be." I...
Mama took the lead and went on about how I'm first in charm school and how "she'll be the wickedest witch wherever the four winds blow." Doesn't Mama know it's bad luck to...
The note said: SOMEONE IN THIS CLASS IS A WITCH. The librarian recommended the audiobook version of Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones (narrated by Gerard Doyle) to my daughter...
I was supposed to play the piano. [...] I play the organ. A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban can be summed up in the words of the Rolling Stones: "You can't always get...
"I am a third child! I want to be treated like everyone else!" When I did my independent study at Iowa State University, the professor book talked Margaret Peterson Haddix's...
A review I wrote of Robinn Gourley’s Bring Me Some Apples and I’ll Make You a Pie and Anita Silvey’s I’ll Pass for Your Comrade: Women Soldiers in the Civil War appears in...
I am reading two very serious books (serious in different ways--one is an autobiography, another is just kind of hard to read), so to give myself a break on Christmas Eve, I...
“Well, it’s simple to love someone,” she said. “But it’s hard to know when you need to say it out loud.” That quote doesn't really encapsulate the main plot of When You Reach...