Teen Reads.com is one of my “go-to” sites for checking out reviews of books I haven’t read. So I was excited to see that the website has updated it’s Ultimate Teen Reading List. The list contains 400 titles, including favorites that have been out a while and new books to check out. The list is [...]

My daughter wrote this review after we read The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer for our mother-daughter book club. When I first found out that we were going to read this book, every instinct told me not to. I had heard that it was a very scary book about cloning. Once we had [...]

The kisses in Lips Touch, Three Times are not the absent-minded pecks on the cheek, expressions of friendship kinds of kisses. The kisses in these stories are sometimes shy, but also passionate, desperate, and full of longing and expectation. They celebrate life, and they herald death. They are not for the weak of spirit. Lips [...]

Kirby Larson wasn’t expecting to write historical fiction when the story of Hattie Inez Brooks found her. Her books before Hattie Big Sky were written for younger readers, but as Larson says, “You never know where life is going to take you. Sometimes there’s a story that takes hold of your heart and there you [...]