Team Burger Shed makes my daughter roll her eyes, me groan, my boys fall over themselves laughing, and even drew my otherwise reticent husband into the fun. I have concluded that this is a quintessential boy-humor book that is fun for the whole family.
Category: Book Reviews
So Far From The Sea by Eve Bunting
So Far From the Sea is a gorgeous and brilliant picture book about the difficult topic of the WWII Japanese Internment camps.
Lepunia: Kingdom of the Gallopers
Fans of The Green Ember and Mistmantle will be delighted with the new middle grade fantasy series – Lepunia: Kingdom of the Gallopers!
New Book: The Found Boys
The Found Boys is not really a story about race, but a story about people, and it involves race. I think it’s a hopeful, humorous tale you’ll enjoy.”
Introducing The Book Review Roundup
Introducing The Book Review Roundup! We decided to launch a twice-monthly newsletter with teasers and links to all of the newest reviews…
The Last Bookshop in London
I was wrong.
The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin is not cheesy.
It is, in fact, quite lovely. This time, I was quite taken with it.
The Lord of the World
This year, I decided that it was time to put my big girl pants on and read Msgr. Hugh Benson’s nightmare-novel, Lord of the World. It is excellent!
The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
A smart, resourceful, multilingual American is recruited to be a librarian spy in Lisbon during WWII monitoring the French resistance.
Jack Zulu and the Girl with the Golden Wings
Jack Zulu And The Girl With The Golden Wings continues to be a blend of fantasy and good old-fashioned storytelling with lots of action and great drama.
Mooses with Bazookas
Mooses with Bazookas is silly, sweet in places, absolutely goofy in other places, and always interesting. It is brilliant for family read-aloud.
Jane of Lantern Hill
Somehow, in my quest to read everything Montgomery, it took me about forty years to get to Jane of Lantern Hill. It was published in 1937, between Anne of Windy Poplars and Anne of Ingleside. In the beginning, Jane is not “of Lantern Hill.” She lives with her mother and grandmother at 60 Gay Street…
Kensuke’s Kingdom
Kensuke’s Kingdom is a story about adventure, love, faith, friendship, resourcefulness, art, and beauty, and it is absolutely worth finding out how it ends.
Crosstalk
Crosstalk is part sci-fi and part psychological adventure with a little romance thrown in. This book was a lot of fun to read and had an intriguing premise.
Bellwether
I decided to listen to Connie Willis’s Bellwether while my seventeen-year-old and I were doing a renovation in my library…
Doomsday Book
Doomsday is gross. And unsettling. And brilliant. I think that my seventeen-year-old boy (who loves Willis) will appreciate it.