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“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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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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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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Now, why would a college freshman from Virginia want to stake out a sporting goods store, map out his burglary and proceed to break-in when he doesn’t need the money?
Tom Wagner is a “freelancer or hobbyist criminal” and as he puts it, he’s doing it simply because
“I can. That’s the only reason I need.”
Bored with [...]
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I won this book from Angeleyes’ giveaway last year and received the book and Harambe the hippo plush toy for Christmas! Thank you for hosting the contest
“Sikulu and Harambe: By The Zambezi River” is an African version of the Good Samaritan Story where two animals, a spider (Sikulu) and a hippo (Harambe) are [...]
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“Da Chen was born in China in 1962. The grandson of a landlord, he found that he and his family were outcasts in Communist China. Da was an excellent student until a teacher told him that because of his family’s ‘crimes’, he could never be more than a poor farmer…
China’s Cultural Revolution took place from [...]
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