Title: On Tide Mill Lane Author: Melissa Wiley Series: Little House: The Charlotte Years, Book 2 Publisher: HarperTrophy Paperback: 258 pages Source: Chicago Public Library Summary: (taken from Goodreads): Buy from the Book Depository Boston’s Little House Girl: Meet Charlotte Tucker, the little girl who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls Wilder’s grandmother. Winter… Continue reading Book Review: On Tide Mill Lane by Melissa Wiley
Title: Year of the Jungle Author: Suzanne Collins Illustrator: James Proimos Publisher: Scholastic Press Hardcover: 40 pages Source: Chicago Public Library Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from The Book Depository Suzy spends her year in first grade waiting for her father, who is serving in Vietnam, and when the postcards stop coming she worries that he will never make it… Continue reading Picture Book Review: Year of the Jungle by Suzanne Collins
Title: She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World Author: Chelsea Clinton Illustrator: Alexandra Boiger Publisher: Philomel Books Hardcover: 32 pages Source: Chicago Public Library Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from The Book Depository Throughout American history, there have always been women who have spoken out for what’s right, even when they have to… Continue reading Book Review: She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton
Title: Potato Author: Rebecca Earle Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Paperback: 144 pages Source: NetGalley Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from the Book Depository bject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Baked potatoes, Bombay potatoes, pommes frites . . . everyone eats potatoes, but what do they mean? To… Continue reading Book Review: Potato by Rebecca Earle
Title: A Thousand Pieces of Gold Author: Adeline Yen Mah Publisher: HarperCollins Paperback: 272 pages Source: Own Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from The Book Depository In this poignant memoir the New York Times bestselling author of Falling Leaves, Adeline Yen Mah, provides a fascinating window into the history and cultural soul of China. Combining personal reflections, rich… Continue reading Book Review: A Thousand Pieces of Gold by Adeline Yen Mah
Title: Jack and Jill Author: Louisa May Alcott Publisher: Little, Brown Paperback: 292 pages Source: Own Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from The Book Depository When best friends, Jack and Jill, tumble off their sled, their injuries cause them to be bedridden for many months. Their parents fill their days with the joys of Christmas preparations, a theatrical production… Continue reading Book Review: Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott
Title: Little House by Boston Bay Author: Melissa Wiley Series: The Charlotte Years, Book 1 Publisher: HarperCollins Paperback: 195 pages Source: Chicago Public Library Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from The Book Depository It’s 1814 and Charlotte lives just outside the city of Boston. She always has something to look forward to—tending Mama’s garden, visiting Papa’s blacksmith shop, and embarking on… Continue reading Book Review: Little House by Boston Bay by Melissa Wiley
Title: On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri in 1894 Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder (notes by Rose Wilder Lane) Publisher: Harper & Row Paperback: 101 pages Source: Chicago Public Library Summary: (taken from Goodreads) In 1894, Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband, Almanzo, and their daughter, Rose, packed their belongings into their covered… Continue reading Book Review: On the Way Home by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Title: Invictus Author: Ryan Graudin Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hardcover: 464 pages Source: ALA Annual 2017 Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Time flies when you’re plundering history. Farway Gaius McCarthy was born outside of time. The son of a time-traveling Recorder from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in Rome in 95 AD, Far’s birth defies the… Continue reading Book Review: Invictus by Ryan Graudin
Title: The Road to Cana Author: Anne Rice Series: Christ the Lord, Book 2 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group Paperback: 242 pages Source: Chicago Public Library Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Anne Rice’s second book in her hugely ambitious and courageous life of Christ begins during his last winter before his baptism in the Jordan and concludes with the miracle at Cana. It… Continue reading Book Review: The Road to Cana by Anne Rice
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