A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread is a three generation family saga centered on the Whitshanks – Red, his wife Abby, their four grown children. The one we get to know best is Denny, the ...
View ArticleTeen Summer Reading 2016
Teen Summer Reading Program 2016 (Middle and High School-aged Students) What makes the Teen Summer Reading Program different than the Kids Summer Reading Program? Well, one thing we ...
View ArticleAbridged Da Vinci Code for YA Coming This Fall
The DaVinci Code has sold about 83 million copies since it was released about a dozen years ago. Now, an abridged version has been adapted for the Young Adult audience and will be released this ...
View ArticleA New Winnie-the-Pooh Story
A newly released Pooh story celebrates the 90 th birthdays of two (not withstanding Dorothy Parker’s famously harsh critique) all time favorite Brits: Winnie-the-Pooh and Queen Elizabeth II. The ...
View ArticleTeen Summer Reading 2016 Blog Contest!
Welcome to Teen Summer Reading 2016! This is the blogging portion of the program. Here are the rules for entry: Read what you want, and tell me about it. For each book you’ve read, ...
View Article"Write to Win a Chance for Publication" Guidelines
“Write to Win a Chance for Publication” Contest for Teens First off, I want to thank you for your interest in this contest, but I don’t want you to think of it as just a writing contest. ...
View ArticlePaul McCartney: the Life by Philip Norman
I just finished reading this great BIG comprehensive biography of the (still unfinished) life of ex-Beatle and international superstar Paul McCartney. This isn’t my first go-round with a Macca ...
View ArticleMy Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
This was an interesting journey following the childhood-through-teen years of the exceptionally bright Lena and Lila who live in a poor, tough village in Naples in the 1950s-60s. Theirs’ was a ...
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