This week, The Ten-Year-Old dives into summer with a book of scary (but not too scary) stories to tell around a campfire. Hal Johnson’s Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods echoes an America gone by, when the woods were large and full of shadows for unknown beasts to lurk in.
This week, The Ten-Year-Old discovers The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe by Douglas Adams and begins a new series from an old favorite, Lauren Myracle.
This week, The Ten-Year-Old discovers a wonderful new-to-her middle grade mystery series by James Ponti.
School’s out, so it must be time for The Ten-Year-Old to pick her favorite books of fourth grade. The Ten-Year-Old strongly recommends you have copies of both Spaceheadz by Jon Scieszka and Marley by John Grogan on hand this summer in case of reading.
This week, The Ten-Year-Old reviews Mabel Grey and the Wizard Who Swallowed the Sun by Clayton Smith.
This week, The Ten-Year-Old reviews This Journal Belongs to Ratchet by Nancy J. Cavanaugh and Wolf’s Boy by Susan Williams Beckhorn.
This week, the Ten-Year-Old reviews Alice in Wonderland and the Book of the Sith.
This week, The Nine-Year-Old reviews The Dandelion Caper by Gene DeWeese and Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves Deputy U.S. Marshal by Vaunda Michaeux Nelson.
While we were in Washington, DC last week, we visited the International Spy Museum on F Street. Since we’ve been back, The Nine-Year-Old has been consuming one spy related book after another. Her favorite from the week is Enigma Alberti’s Mary Bowser and the Civil War Spy Ring.
This week, The Nine-Year-old reviews Lunchbox and the Aliens by Bryan W. Fields and President Taft is Stuck in the Bath by Mac Barnett.
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