See those three seals on this book cover? That’s some heavy metal. 🙂 Last Stop on Market Street won the 2016 Newbery Medal, a 2016 Caldecott honor, and a 2016 Coretta Scott King honor for illustration. Wow! Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Peña and illustrated by Christian Robinson is a sweet, sweet … [Read more…]
Fall and cooler weather have finally descended upon north Alabama. Can we all shout a collective “hallelujah”? 🙂 That also means that this challenge is almost at an end. I typically pick up speed toward the end of the challenge because so many of the titles are already familiar to me, and this year is … [Read more…]
I opened Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan, a 2003 Newbery honor book, not really expecting to like it. Something about both the cover and the plot premise– juvenile delinquent “survives” living with a homeschooling family–always turned me off. I’m a little bit sensitive about how homeschooling is represented by the world at large, so I’m … [Read more…]
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…]
Lulu and I continued our adventure with Grandma Dowdel that we started a few weeks ago via audiobook, and what a heartwarming and completely entertaining adventure it is! A Year Down Yonder picks up more or less where A Long Way from Chicago leaves off, only this time Joey is off working for the CCC and Mary … [Read more…]
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