That Inevitable Victorian Thing
Author: E. K. Johnston
Published: October 3, 2017 by Dutton
Guest Review by Kaari von Bernuth
Goodreads Summary: Set in a near-future world where the British Empire was preserved, not by the cost of blood and […]
The Secret Side of Empty
Author: Maria E. Andreu
Published: March 11, 2014 by Running Press
Summary: As a straight-A student with a budding romance and loyal best friend, M.T.’s life seems as apple-pie American as her blondish hair and pale skin. But M.T. hides two facts to […]
Monster Needs Your Vote
Author: Paul Czajak
Illustrator: Wendy Grieb
Expected Publication September 4th, 2015 by Mighty Media Kids
Goodreads Summary: Election season is here and Monster is ready to vote! But why cast your ballot when you can run for […]
2015 Big Book Summer Challenge: Revolution by Deborah Wiles & East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Big Book Summer Challenge is a challenge hosted by Sue at Book by Book. The inspiration behind the challenge is to push the bigger books to the top of the TBR pile during summer time.
The Details:
Anything over 400 pages qualifies as a big book. […]
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Author: Alice Goffman
Published: May 1, 2014 by University Of Chicago Press
Summary: Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created […]
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
A Long Walk to Water
Author: Linda Sue Park
Published November, 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Goodreads Summary: A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, […]
For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation by Vicki O. Wittenstein
Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday
Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday is hosted by Kid Lit Frenzy and was started to help promote the reading of nonfiction texts. Most Wednesdays, we will be participating and will review a nonfiction text (though it may not always be a picture […]
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