The London Eye Mystery and Atherton

Settling back into life after holidays and power outages and I have a lot of reading to catch up on!  Finished the exciting YA new series Atherton:  The House of Power (Carman).  When googling to find the full title I was linked to this web page that looks cool http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/features/atherton_full/atherton/atherton.html
Fun fantasy title with some big [...]

Blog Break

Just had my power turned back on after 6 days….wish I could say I found more time to read, but basically it was survival and getting my work completed.  Now I’ll be taking a holiday break, but look forward to sharing more about books in the new year.
Liz

Cooperative Children’s Book Center

One of the favorite things coming to my email Inbox this time of year are messages from the CCBC-Net listserv.  In December the group of book lovers– including authors, illustrators, librarians, publishers, educators and more–discuss their favorite books of the year.  Throughout the year the group discusses children’s literature through specific topics moderated by the [...]

Historical Fiction

I just finished reading Elephant Run by Roland Smith.   Nick escapes the war in England during WWII only to be captured as a prisoner of the Japanese on his father’s teak farm in Burma/Myanmar.  What follows is an interesting look into a time and place that I didn’t know much about.  I had this similar [...]

Spy Fiction

Awhile ago I reported reading IQ:  Book 1 Independence Hall by Roland Smith:  A fun, not too violent spy tale involving the secret service, Israeli Mossad, music, magic and more.  Strong middle grades book I thought.  Now, I just finished reading Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter.  This is a second [...]