In Other Words, Marvelous: The Girl is Murder
What’s the story, morning glory? The Girl is Murder* by Kathryn Miller Haines is set in New York City, autumn 1942. Following her adored mother’s suicide and the return of […]
Category Archives: Historical Fiction
Review: Nooks and Crannies by Jennifer Lawson, Natalie Andrewson (illustrations)
Hardcover, 336 pages Published June 2nd 2015 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Source: Library ‘When hope has left your side, carry on with the assumption that it […]
Review: The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist by Margarita Engle
Hardcover, 182 pages Published March 19th 2013 by HMH Books for Young Readers Source: Publisher “I envy the trees that grow at crossroads. They are never forced to decide which […]
Nafiza Recommends: Chime by Franny Billingsley
I’d better start with a confession, Nafiza: the first time I read Chime, I didn’t like it. I mean, I got why you did: the atmosphere of the setting; the little […]
Snapshots: The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow by Katherine Woodfine
*mic squeaks* Tapatapatapa *hushed voice:* Are you sure this thing is on? *clears throat* We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you… *drumroll* … a Snapshot! Paperback, 320 pages […]
Steph Recommends: Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick
Hardcover, 224 pages Published July 16th 2009 by Orion Source: Library Of the four of us, Steph and I have the most disparate reading tastes. She prefers no-frills realistic stories […]
Review: Ghost Train by Paul Yee and Harvey Chan
Left behind in China by her father, who has gone to North America to find work, Choon-yi has made her living by selling her paintings in the market. When her […]
Snapshot: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Let’s step back in time back to last month’s theme of verse novels and take a look at Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust. The setting is a small farm in […]
Life goes on: characters and (non)resolution in Witness by Karen Hess
I was going to write about Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust, the book that introduced me to verse novels (I hadn’t known you could tell a story in poems! The […]
Review: Caravaggio: Signed in Blood by Mark David Smith
Caravaggio: Signed in Blood is the story of Beppo, a fifteen-year-old boy whose widowed stepfather sold him into indentured servitude four years ago. Beppo is less than happy with his […]
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