Estimated Reading Time 1 MinutesRating: Genre: Fantasy, YA First sentence: When the Spook arrived, the light was already beginning to fail. Favorite Quote From the Book: If you can’t make…
Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
Estimated Reading Time 2 MinutesRating: Genre: Fantasy, YA First sentence: Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood. Favorite Quote From the Book: Publisher: Disney-Hyperion (March 21, 2006), Paperback: 400…
The Velveteen Rabbit By Margery Williams
Estimated Reading Time 1 Minutes This is a wonderful story about love and the impact toys have on children and their imagination. It was one of my favorite bedtime stories…
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Estimated Reading Time 1 MinutesThis is one of my all time favorite books. I first discovered it when I was in 6th grade, and have reread it many times since…
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
Estimated Reading Time 1 Minutes If you’ve ever wished to be part of an ‘old fashioned story’ then this is the book for you. Lois Lowry has done it again,…
A Wrinkle In Time By Madeleine L’Engle
Estimated Reading Time 1 MinutesMeg Murry’s Father has been gone for two years and no one knows exactly why. All they know is that he was working on a top…
Little Britches by Ralph Moody
Estimated Reading Time 1 Minutes This is a wonderful true story about how a young boy learns some of life’s best lessons while working a small ranch with his father.…
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Estimated Reading Time 1 Minutes I thought this book was pretty great. It is a wonderful story, but a little slow in places. I agree with the review that the…
The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy
Estimated Reading Time 1 MinutesThis is one of the best fantasy series that I have read in a long time. The beginning for me was a little slow when you…
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.