Aaahhhh summertime….when kids (and some of us adults) get to read books purely for pleasure instead of for school assignments. I remember lying on my bed with a warm breeze blowing in the window devouring book after book all summer long. Besides being fun and relaxing, there’s also a correlation between kids reading in the [...]
David Greenburg is 11 years old and about to start middle school. He’s not too worried until his older cousin Jack tells him about the horrors he may face, including a toilet-bowl swirlie on his birthday. David has other worries on his mind too: his mom left the family to live [...]
There’s a lot to like in Donna Gephart’s first book, as if being 12-3/4 isn’t bad enough, my mother is running for president. Vanessa Rothrock is nearly 13 and already used to the limelight because she’s the Florida governor’s daughter. But when her mother decides to run for president, and it looks like she stands [...]
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