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Review (Plus): ‘You May Already Be a Winner’
Bookshelf Blurb: If only hitting ‘send’ on a virtual contest would mean winning, but in a world of ‘Walter Mitty’ type daydreams this is the only hope Olivia Hales has while living in Sunny Pines...
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Review (Plus): Emily and the Spellstone
Bookshelf Blurb: All Emily wants for her birthday is a phone, but not resembling an iPhone with apps that destroy things that go bump in the night! She didn’t realize wishes can come (sorta) true. Ms....
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Review (Plus): ‘One for Sorrow’ by Mary Downing Hahn
Bookshelf Blurb: “In flew Enza” was a playground chant, but influenza was a real epidemic in 1918. The mean girls who chanted this discover that they can’t cheat death as quickly as they can wish it...
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Review (Plus): ‘The Hawkweed Legacy’
Ms. America’s Review: I love when the wait is finally over and you get to touch, smell and devour the next book in a series, which I was able to do with The Hawkweed Legacy, book number two by...
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Review (Plus): The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
Bookshelf Blurb: Do you like Pippi Longstalking? This book is like having FIVE of her all fighting to save their beloved Harlem brownstone, but their heartwarming attempts are interpreted as naughty...
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Review (Plus): ‘American Heart’ by Laura Moriarty
America’s Bookshelf Blurb: TSA has regulations in place because of our nation’s threatened security from 9-11—imagine a world where we place our human threats in internment camps to ensure our safety....
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Review (Plus): ‘I Sleep In a Big Bed’
Ms. America’s Review: I have found there are three mega times of transition in my children’s lives—becoming a ‘kid’ from a toddler, entering middle school (hormones, name-brands, pressure) and the...
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Review (Plus): New Books for Reluctant Readers
One of my struggles as an English teacher is turning my students into lifelong readers. One of the most important tasks is finding the perfect book and placing it in the hands of a reluctant reader;...
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Review (Plus): ‘Bikes for Sale’
America’s Review: I often laugh when I tell people how my best friend and I met–we were arch enemies who later discovered we were destined for friendship all along. Friendships can be difficult,...
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