The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith
I’ve been dying to talk about this book. Dying. Now that I can, I’m not sure how to. I like this line from the cover blurb from Michael Grant: “You’ll want to put it down and walk away…
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Picture the Dead by Adele Griffin, illustrated by Lisa Brown
Adele Griffin has always been one of my favorite writers. (Have you read Sons of Liberty? Amandine? No? Why not??) One thing I admire about her career is how diverse her various projects…
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And so the reading report begins!
Because I am limited and but a faulty human, I probably won’t remember to write about every single book that I loved. I’m not doing these in any particular order, but am attempting to group them in categories somehow….
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- Many, many congratulations to all the National Book Award finalists and winners. You can watch the ceremony and scroll through a whole bunch of pictures at the National Book Foundation’s web site. There is one of me and fellow judge Hope…
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By this time next week, the National Book Award winners will be chosen and announced. I’ve had so many thoughts throughout the process of being a judge, but we all commit to not talking publicly about the inner workings of that process. So…
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