Book Review: Louis Sachar’s Small Steps
Two years after Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin. With a record, everyone expects the worst except disabled neighbor Ginnymm as they take small steps on the right path.
Genre: fiction
Book Review: Naomi Novik’s Tongues of Serpents
Temeraire and Capt. Will Laurence are transported to Australia, despite their heroic aid, only to be dumped into yet more political turmoil between power-hungry politicians.
Book Review: Sophie Kinsella’s Finding Audrey
Audrey’s anxiety disorder is debilitating, and it takes Linus to push her into trying, all within the laughing you’ll do as you read teen sarcasm about her family.
Book Review: Lora Leigh’s Shattered Legacy
Consuming passion, undying love, and gifts of power come at a cost for these four beautiful women and their Warriors, the choice impacting them all for centuries to come.
Book Review: Louis Sachar’s Holes
Torture, lack of justice…and growth for Stanley Yelnats at Camp Green Lake. And all the fault of that no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.
Book Review: James Howe’s Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow
Pete’s favorite author is coming to visit his school AND stay at his house!! But Chester the cat is suspicious about the beady-eyed crow and that pets are always threatened in the books.
Book Review: Craig McLay’s Village Books
Village Books is a local institution…which is good, because most of the staff probably belong in one.
Book Review: G.A. Beller’s Not Black and White: From the Very Windy City to 1600 Pennsylvania
Chicago-style politics is front and center. When a sitting president has his roots in this sullied political heritage, it makes for news and leads to speculation.
Book Review: John Flanagan’s The Ghostfaces
Hal Mikkelson and the Brotherband are on an unexpected adventure as they get blown off course into the Endless Ocean and end up in an unknown land with unknown tribes.
Book Review: Kent Haruf’s Our Souls at Night
Loneliness leads Addie Moore to take an extraordinary step, one which leads to a more fulfilling life until her son interferes.