What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, The Nine-Year-Old reviews two popular kids magazines: Ranger Rick, a nature magazine from the National Wildlife Federation and Ask, a science and arts magazine from Cricket Media.

What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, the 9 year-old reviews Niall and the Stone of Destiny, a biography of King Niall, a 5th century High King of Ireland, by Lance MacNeill, and Stowaway in a Sleigh by C. Roger Mader.

What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, The 9 year old reviews Magic Trixie by Jill Thompson and Fuzzy by Tom Angleberger and Paul Dellinger.

What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, the 9 year old reviews Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn.

What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, the 9 year old flits from math to science fiction to wondering in her reading. Join us for her reviews of Math for Kids & Other People Too! by Theoni Pappas, The Time Warp Trio by Jon Scieszka, and The Big Book of Why by the Editors of Time for Kids Magazine.

What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, the 9 year old reviews Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder by Jo Nesbo, El Deafo by Cece Bell, and Quiddith Through the Ages by JK Rowling.

What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, the 9 year old reviews Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George, Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling, and Potterwookiee by Obert Skye.

What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, the 9 year old reviews Upside-Down Magic by Lauren Myracle, Sara Mlynowski, and Emily Jenkins; Wonkenstein: The Creature from my Closet by Obert Skye; and My Brother is a Superhero by David Solomons.

The 5 best books of The Nine-Year-Old’s year (so far)

This weekend, I found The Nine-Year-Old in her reading nook puzzling over a stack of books. Every once in a while she’d put one in her mini steamer trunk. The rest she scattered over the sides of couches, across the floor, and next to her bean bag. In a valiant attempt not to derail whatever magic was going on in her brain with an untimely shriek of “Are you going to pick those up?”, I asked her what she was doing.

“Picking out my five favorite books of the year,” she replied. Now that was a project I could get behind.

This week’s book chat, in which The 9YO and I talk about censorship

I still get a little thrill whenever I see my daughter walk into the house with a Judy Blume book. Back in the before times, when I was just a young kid in Texas, there was a bit of a dust-up about Judy Blume’s book, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, which resulted in my school librarian banning all Judy Blume books. It was my earliest experience of censorship (and its limitations), but it wouldn’t be my last.