Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry won the Newbery Award in 1977, the fact that it’s still a very topical book about racism makes me want to scream in frustration. The Newbery Honor books that year were Abel’s Island by William Steig, which I didn’t think I’d ever read until I read the description and guys, I LOVED THIS ONE I’m totally re-reading it at some point; and A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond, which I think I read and liked but don’t […]
Revolutionary War Goonies
I have always enjoyed YA and Middle Grade novels, a good book is a good book regardless of its target audience. However, I keenly felt all through reading 7th Grade Revolution that I was most definitely not the target audience and that a younger person would have enjoyed the book a lot more then I did. That’s not to say that it’s a bad book, it’s not, it’s just not one that crosses the demographic from young reader to adult reader well. It’s a perfectly […]
Sailing Down the Chesapeake
I’ve had a low key goal of eventually reading all of the Newbery award winners for a long, long time. It’s not something I’ve actively pursued, but it’s definitely been something that’s in the back of my head as something I’d like to do, you know eventually. Well an old friend started a facebook book club because she wanted to read all the books on one of those lists of 100 books everyone should read and then have the Newbery award winners as an alternate […]
Needs a Dash More Spider’s Eye
The Familiar is the start to a paranormal romance series, but I didn’t find it enjoyable enough to continue on with the series. It’s not offensive, it’s just meh. It contains just a tad too much sexual assault for my liking, and it’s not funny at all for a book that bills itself as a ‘Paranormal Romantic Comedy”. Tom is a man who got himself turned into a cat by an evil witch back. Thirty or forty years later Tom is still stuck as a […]