When A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness came out in hardcover last February it was an immediate hit. Debuting at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list, it’s been getting rave reviews since. Now, publisher Penguin has released the title in paperback, and you can win a copy by commenting here by midnight [...]

Addy chafes against the strict expectations a girl of her position has in society. She attends school with girls who are much wealthier, but she is expected to acquiesce always to what they want. Her attitude often lands her in trouble. When Addy’s mother decides its in Addy’s best interest to quit school and start [...]

As part of my WOW! blog tour, I’ve written a post called Ten Book Club Favorites for Ramblings of a Texas Housewife. All of the books on the list have been favorites of one of my groups over the years, and they’re divided into age groups, starting with books recommended for 9 to 10 years [...]

Jack Perdu is a loner, a ninth-grader who is an expert on Greek classics and lives on the Yale University campus with his archeology-professor father. One winter afternoon, while he has his nose in a book, he is nearly killed when a car hits him in a crosswalk. Mysterious things start to happen to Jack [...]

When my oldest daughter, Madeleine, was in fifth grade, we read Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli in our mother-daughter book club. The girls all liked it, but they couldn’t really identify well with the issues brought up in the book: What does it mean to be popular in school, can you find friends who accept you [...]