Hello! Remember me? I took an impromptu hiatus in April. I had planned to start posting again on April 12 (the due date of my final assignment) but I let job applications and interviews eat up another week of my time. At that point, my blogging schedule was shot. So, I decided to take the entire month off and instead focus on scheduling ahead for May. I’ve been blogging for […]
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The Last Last-Day-of-Summer by Lamar Giles Format/source: ARC/NetgalleyPublished: 2 April 2019 Publisher: VersifyLength: 305 pages Genre: Middle grade speculative fiction ★★★★ Otto and Sheed are the local sleuths in their zany Virginia town, masters of unraveling mischief using their unmatched powers of deduction. And as the summer winds down and the first day of school looms, the boys are craving just a little bit more time for fun, even as […]
Last year for Reading Week, my sister Ash came to visit me. This year, the two of us went to New York City. The impetus for this visit was the Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth exhibit on at the Morgan Library. We booked our plane tickets back in June! In a happy surprise, my best friend got accepted to grad school outside of NYC shortly after we booked the trip. So […]
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The Size of the Truth by Andrew Smith When he was four years old, Sam Abernathy was trapped at the bottom of a well for three days, where he was teased by a smart-aleck armadillo named Bartleby. Since then, his parents plan every move he makes. But Sam doesn’t like their plans. He doesn’t want to go to MIT. And he doesn’t want to skip two grades, being stuck in […]
One of the assignments for my children’s literature course last term was to write 25 annotations (snapshot reviews between 50 and 150 words) on all sorts of kidlit. It was a great opportunity to delve out of my comfort zone of MG spec fic 😉 Today’s post, featuring information books, is the seventh and final post in a series where I share those annotations by type (some of these titles […]