Tweet Lola Gillette needs a second chance. After she is caught shoplifting, her parents bring her to spend the summer with her reclusive uncle, who lives in a crumbling castle on the Connecticut River that has been in the family … Continue reading
Category Archives: Reviews of Books for 11-13 Year Olds
Tweet It’s early 1930s Germany and Hitler’s Nazi Party is just beginning to gain power. People turn to him because he seems to have answers during tough economic times. The trouble is, his answers often involve blaming others, particularly Jews, … Continue reading
Tweet The City Spies are adjusting to life in a new home, satisfied that criminal mastermind Le Fantome is in a high security prison. But then MI6 intercepts messages that discuss bombing high level targets across Europe with the goal … Continue reading
Tweet Even though it’s March in London the ground is covered in snow, the skies are gray, and it seems that spring will never arrive. Ten-year-old Blessing has worries to match the bleak weather. Her mother gets depressed in winter … Continue reading
Tweet Most of us are familiar with the stories of the major Christmas classics. We may have seen The Nutcracker performed as a ballet, watched one of the many versions of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, or listened to a … Continue reading
Tweet Tales From The Half Continent is book #4 in the Monster Blood Tattoo series by D. M. Cornish. With the saga of Rossamund Bookchild either complete or moving in a different direction, Cornish has turned his attention to other … Continue reading
Tweet Theater provides not only entertainment, but also, for many kids, a place to be creative and find friends who enjoy the same things they do. Limelight: Curtain Up On Poetry Comics! by Renée M. LaTulippe delves deep into the … Continue reading
Tweet Matt knew he should have turned in the cell phone when he found it on the ground. But he really wanted to see what using one would be like. And since his parents wouldn’t let him have one yet, … Continue reading