Category: review

A Monster Lurks Around Eerie-on-Sea [MG Review]

14 January 2020 / review / 4 Comments
A Monster Lurks Around Eerie-on-Sea [MG Review]

Malamander by Thomas Taylor Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, knows that returning lost things to their rightful owners is not easy – especially when the lost thing is not a thing at all, but a girl. No […]

Combined Review of Two Contemporary Stories: Other Words for Home and More to the Story [MG Reviews]

17 December 2019 / review / 6 Comments
Combined Review of Two Contemporary Stories: Other Words for Home and More to the Story [MG Reviews]

I struggle to review contemporary middle grade because I’m not passionate about the genre. I read these two titles because I wanted to be able to book talk them. That’s my main motivator for reading any contemporary middle grade…

“I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read That Yet” Results [NF and MG Reviews]

“I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read That Yet” Results [NF and MG Reviews]

Reviews of the winners of September and October’s vote – The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller (non-fiction) and Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge (middle grade fiction)

An Enchanting English Timeslip Tale [MG Review]

29 November 2019 / review / 4 Comments
An Enchanting English Timeslip Tale [MG Review]

Measles mean Tom has been sent to stay with an aunt and uncle who live in a converted flat of an old house without a garden. When a grandfather clock strikes thirteen in the middle of the night, Tom creeps outside to discover a grand and expansive daytime Victorian garden, in place of parked cars and rubbish bins…

3 Classic Young Adult Titles [YA Review]

26 November 2019 / review / 3 Comments
3 Classic Young Adult Titles [YA Review]

I wrote two of these reviews for a course on young adult literature. The Giver and The Owl Service were classified as classic young adult novels for the purpose of that course. I read The Hero and Crown earlier this year as part of Julie @ Smiling Shelves’ Newbery Challenge. I thought that meant…