by Michael Strickland Nana’s Gift is a heartwarming, touching, and beautifully written picture book by Agy Wilson, Darlee Sims is left at Nana’s for the weekend and at first is not happy with it. But having fun with Nana, Pasha and Honey, Darlee learns about her family, and best of all herself. With wonderful illustrations…
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Dork Diaries 5: Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All
Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All I am the Book Bear and I approve of this message. My oldest daughter, an intermediate grade reader, and a lot of her friends love and relate to the protagonist of this book. Eighth-grader Nikki Maxwell is already more than a little cynical. “I’m definitely not the kind of…
An Abundance of Katherines: “Challengingly complex and entirely entertaining”
“Imagine an operating room at the start of a daring but well-rehearsed procedure and you will have something of the atmosphere of ”An Abundance of Katherines”: every detail considered, the action unrolling with grace and inevitability.” -New York Times Book Review “Green follows his Printz winning Looking for Alaska (2005) with another sharp, intelligent story….