A Million Shades of Gray by Cynthia Kadohata My rating: 3 of 5 stars I didn’t know there were tribal agrarian peoples in Vietnam who were not officially involved in the war. I don’t think I’m especially ignorant about these things, so I admit I was surprised to learn about the Rhade people, a tribe [...]
Keeping Score by Linda Sue Park My rating: 3 of 5 stars I love baseball. Love it in that geeky way that even most baseball fans don’t love it. I keep score when I watch games in person or on television. When I travel to the continental United States I bring my scorebook with me [...]
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As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth by Lynne Rae Perkins My rating: 4 of 5 stars Ry is on a train, rolling toward summer camp somewhere near Montana. His parents are on a boat, relaxing in the Caribbean. His grandfather is in Wisconsin, taking care of the house and dogs. They [...]
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Smiles to Go by Jerry Spinelli My rating: 4 of 5 stars When scientists observe the first known death of a proton, only Will Tuppence and his best friend Mi-Su seem to understand the significance of such an event. For Will it means that nothing can be counted on, and that everything is impermanent, including [...]
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Our school’s having its Scholastic Book Fair this week. I broke the budget and got Are you detecting a theme? I means besides Books I Can’t Start Reading Until it’s Summer Vacation. Already feeling kinda giddy for summer reading.
Good things about this weekend: I got LOTS of sleep. I mean LOTS. I didn’t really plan it that way, but somewhere late Saturday morning I realized that nothing I could do for myself the rest of the day would be better for me than just to take it easy. So I slept and slept [...]
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When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead My rating: 5 of 5 stars Miranda is twelve. Her single mom practices every evening for an upcoming appearance on The $20,000 Pyramid. Her best friend Sal doesn’t speak to her anymore, so she is forced to walk home alone past the group of rowdy older boys and [...]
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Well I guess I couldn’t have been more wrong about the Super Bowl. I’m disappointed, but at least it was a good game. Props to the Saints who played well, and props also to Peyton Manning who was total class in defeat. Yeah, you know that’s Archie’s boy. I made myself finish the other book [...]
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I finally got my hands on these, and I’m kinda stoked that When You Reach Me doesn’t yet have the gold medallion on it. If you haven’t heard of the title on the left, all you have to know is that the main character tries to solve a puzzle and she carries a copy of [...]
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My only complaint about N is for Noose was that while it told a very good story, it didn’t advance Kinsey’s own story enough. Or at all, really. If I’d known where O is for Outlaw was going to go, I’d have kept my mouth shut, because there’s even more Kinsey introspection here than there [...]
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