From the category archives:
“Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret” was in the reading list of the young girl from the international school I was coaching for English.
To prepare for our book discussions, I looked for the book in the library and totally enjoyed it
Margaret Simon is a 12 year old girl (sixth grade) whose [...]
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Joey Pigza is a “wired” young boy who suffers from attention-deficit-hyperactive-disorder (ADHD) but what’s interesting is that he’s actually the most normal person in his CRAZY family!
First, his parents are divorced but his erratic, reckless motorbike-riding father doesn’t seem to want to move on because he stalks his ex-wife and her new boyfriend frequently.
His mother [...]
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When I saw the book cover, I thought it’s a ghost story until I read that it’s about a *painfully* shy girl, Anna Newland, who turned herself into a total recluse at 7 years old by hiding herself away in passageways and secret rooms she built in her family’s Victorian mansion.
A middle child with [...]
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If you’re shopping for a nice, thoughtful present for a pre-teen or teenage girl, check out “Bobbi Brown Teenage Beauty” because it’s a *great* book for teenage girls.
“Bobbi Brown Teenage Beauty: Everything You Need to Look Pretty, Natural, Sexy and Awesome” is a handy reference of about 200 pages with:
glossy pictures of teenage girls [...]
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When I found this book on the library shelf, I admit that I thought it was a “flaky”, “airhead” kind of book that almost every pre-teen or teenaged girl is reading now…
I was attracted by the blurb:
“Amanda Woods is discovering that the person other people think she is and the person she really is are [...]
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One morning, Mr “Fab” Fabiano’s sixth grade class shows up to find out that he’s away but the substitute teacher is sick. Can the kids be on their own the whole day?
As the 11 – 12 year old kids debate about whether to inform the school authorities or not, they finally vote NOT to because [...]
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I borrowed this book from the school library when I was about 12. Reading “Daddy-Long-Legs”, I fell in love with the idea of having penfriends and the art of letter writing.
Jerusha Abbott (later called Judy) is an orphan at the John Grier Home, which is nothing like loving atmosphere of the orphanage in John Irving’s [...]
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I stumbled upon this book at the library and couldn’t wait to start reading it since I’d watched the movie starring Danny DeVito and when I was 18.
“Matilda” is the story of a little genius girl born into the wrong family – father is a crookish (and sexist) salesman who tries to think of [...]
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