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Young Adult Fiction

Beauty by Robin McKinley

January 19, 2018 by Amy 1 Comment

I told you I am into fairy tales this year.  🙂  Hope’s review of Beauty:  A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley convinced me to pick this one up and soon.  Although it has been on my radar for years and years, I had never read this positively captivating … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Young Adult Fiction Tagged: Best Books, best books of 2018, Juvenile Fiction

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

September 20, 2016 by Amy Leave a Comment

I listened to the audiobook of the 2005 Newbery honor book Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt and narrated by Sam Freed last week.  I am already such a fan of Gary D. Schmidt that it wasn’t hard to sell me on this title.  I had tried to read it once … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Juvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction Tagged: Juvenile Fiction, Newbery Award, Newbery Through the Decades, Printz Award, Young Adult Fiction

Shabanu by Suzanne Fisher Staples

August 26, 2016 by Amy 1 Comment

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples won a Newbery honor in 1990.  I first read it for a children’s literature class when I was in library school a decade and a half ago.  My memories of it were that it is a good story, full of insight about a people group and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Juvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction Tagged: Juvenile Fiction, Newbery Award, Newbery Through the Decades, Young Adult Fiction

A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

August 4, 2016 by Amy 3 Comments

I am a Richard Peck fan.  In fact, if I made a short list of my favorite contemporary children’s/YA authors, he’d be at the top.  I find his blend of humor and poignancy irresistible. Add to this the fact that he writes about common midwesterners (which are astonishingly like southerners, at least in my mind), … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Juvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction Tagged: Audiobooks, Juvenile Fiction, Newbery Award, Newbery Through the Decades

Graven Images by Paul Fleischman

July 15, 2016 by Amy Leave a Comment

Curious to read more from Paul Fleischman’s varied oeuvre, I picked up a collection of three of his short stories that won a Newbery honor in 1983.  Entitled Graven Images, the stories share a common element of some sort of statue or figure that represents something to the characters in the stories. The first story … [Read more…]

Posted in: Books, Juvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction Tagged: Newbery Award, Newbery Through the Decades, short stories
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer


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