Review: WARM BODIES BY ISAAC MARION IS THE MOST FUN I’VE HAD READING A BOOK IN AGES! That is all. ‘R’ is a zombie that cannot remember anything of his life before his death. He cannot even remember his name. He knows nothing of his former life as a human. He lives in an abandoned […]
Room by Emma Donoghue To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it’s where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be […]
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore Sometimes you have to return to the place where you began, to arrive at the place where you belong. It’s the early 1970s. The town of Ringgold, Georgia, has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline. […]
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool My Thoughts: 12-year-old Abilene Tucker has spent her entire life traveling with her father, Gideon, as he worked on the railroad. But suddenly he has sent her to Manifest, Kansas to live with Pastor Shady Howard, and she does not understand why. Abilene is a little heartbroken and misses […]