Not Even Two Nickels

R My Name is Rachel, by Patricia Reilly Giff It’s 1936 and twelve-year-old Rachel knows what it’s like to be hungry. The family goes from living in the city to learning how to raise and grow their own food. Their chicks aren’t old enough to give eggs yet. The goat, Xenia, isn’t quite ready to give milk, [...]

Miss Amanda’s Best of 2010

Miss Amanda’s top picture book and middle grade reads of 2010.

New Fiction

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The Dreamer

In Chile, young Neftalí is different from those around him. Collecting his “treasures” and hearing the call of a mysterious voice, he follows his own path. Pam Muñoz Ryan’s The Dreamer brings to life a fictional account of Pablo Neruda’s youth. With Ryan’s words and illustrations by Peter Sís, readers are invited on a magical journey [...]

New Fiction

To Come and Go Like Magic

Staff Pick by Miss Jane – “To Come and Go Like Magic”

A Friendship For Today

 In Patricia McKissack’s   A Friendship For Today, it is  1954 and desegregation has come to a small town in Missouri. Rosemary Patterson is going to make history by being the only African-American sixth grader at an all-white school. It’s a challenging year for Rosemary with her parents having problems, her best friend diagnosed with polio [...]

Escaping the worst family in the world

What would you do if you lived with the worst family in the world? If you were William S. Baggett in Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s William S. and the Great Escape, you would plan and execute the great escape! Set during the Great Depression, William S. has always been planning his getaway from the large family [...]

Darwin Madness continues!

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly came out last year during the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth.  Although this book isn’t about Mr. Darwin, his work as a naturalist plays front and center in this new historical fiction. Eleven year-old Calpurnia Virginia Tate spends lots of time with her Grandfather collecting specimens and [...]