This should be a sad tale but instead is up-lifting. Much of that is due to the protagonist’s wry voice: Twelve-year-old Bee (short for Beatrice) is an orphan and works for a traveling carnival, living in the back of a truck with nineteen-year-old Pauline.
Month: September 2013
Book Spotlight: Goddess Girls, Book 11: Persephone the DaringThe Children’s Book Review
Book Spotlight: Greenbeard the Pirate PigThe Children’s Book Review
Book trailer for Deceived, a young adult thriller by author Julie Anne Lindsey.
Cathy Potter is a school librarian at Falmouth Elementary School in Falmouth, Maine. She serves on the Chickadee Award committee, the 2014 Sibert Medal committee, and she co-authors The Nonfiction Detectives blog.
TCBR is so happy to shine the spotlight on Cathy Potter!
Even though I’ve been out of school for ages and ages, there is something about September that says new beginnings.
Here are five Fall titles I’m eager to read …
Book Spotlight: Zero ToleranceThe Children’s Book Review
Book Spotlight of Dragon Daily News: Stories of Imagination for Children of All AgesThe Children’s Book Review
Claudia Mills is the author of many chapter and middle-grade books, including 7 x 9=Trouble!; How Oliver Olson Changed the World; Kelsey Green, Reading Queen; and, most recently, Zero Tolerance.
Mills shares a wonderful list of her family’s favorite books that feature girl protagonists—she encourages you to share them with both boys and girls, alike.
A glacier that starts in a refrigerator is just one of the weird things that can happen in these twenty-one stories by Highlights for Children author Gene Twaronite.