★★★★ I saw another review do this, but I totally agree: 5 stars for the woman, 3 stars for the book The pedestal upon which women have been placed has all too often, upon closer inspection, been revealed as a cage. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a modern woman before her time. She was a lawyer, a… Continue reading Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik, Ping Zhu (illustrator)
If You Were Me and Lived in… Elizabethan England – Carole P. Roman, Paula Tabor (Illustrator)
★★★★ Elizabethan England was an incredibly interesting and strange time. Everything from the clothes to the food to even the structure of the houses was different - B>very different. There were two small bedrooms in the rear of the house where you shared a bed with your sisters. I can't imagine doing that! The food, in particular, stood out… Continue reading If You Were Me and Lived in… Elizabethan England – Carole P. Roman, Paula Tabor (Illustrator)
Master Class – Christina Dalcher
I have too strong a survival instinct. Always have. Elena Fairchild is a teacher at an exclusive "Silver" school - where the best of the best students go. The new educational system (Silver schools for the smartest, Green for the middle and Yellow for the bottom-tier students) has been in place for a while now. Elena somewhat… Continue reading Master Class – Christina Dalcher
Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography – Neil Patrick Harris
★★★★ Ahh...Quaint childhood, a few lucky breaks and then success, success, success. The classic celebrity memoir...or is it? You come in weighing a very average, very sexy seven pounds, seven ounces. As it happens, that is also the exact weight of an Emmy Award. Coincidence? Yes … but true fact? No. What if memoirs didn't… Continue reading Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography – Neil Patrick Harris
Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs – Jennifer Finney Boylan
★ My days have been numbered in dogs, Jennifer Finney Boylan, a New York Times opinion columnist, often wrote about her dog, Indigo, in her column. But if you ask me, the magic of dogs is not that their love for us is unconditional. What's unconditional is the love that we have for them. In… Continue reading Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs – Jennifer Finney Boylan
The Woman in the Window – A.J. Finn
★★ ½ My head was once a filing cabinet. Now it’s a flurry of papers, floating on a draft. Agoraphobic Anna Fox resides in New York City. She's found ways around anything and everything that she needs - whether it be grocery delivery, hiring a handyman or cases of her favorite wine every few months. She will… Continue reading The Woman in the Window – A.J. Finn
Big Thinkers and Big Ideas – Sharon Kaye
Philosophy is both fun and good for your brain. By thinking about deep questions, anyone, including you, can be a philosopher. Philosophy often gets a bad rap among kids as something that's long, boring and useless. But it's not. True, discussion takes longer than just memorizing whatever your teacher says, but the time is well spent. This… Continue reading Big Thinkers and Big Ideas – Sharon Kaye
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy – Jeanne Birdsall
★★★★ ½ People sometimes make unexpected choices when they're lonely. The Penderwick sisters are summering with their father on a "cottage" (aka part of the Arundel estate). There's Rosalind (12), Skye (11), Jane (10) and Batty (4), and (of course) their dad and their dog (Hound Penderwick). They girls soon discover that this summer will be one that they… Continue reading The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy – Jeanne Birdsall
If You Were Me and Lived on…Mars – Carole P. Roman, Mateya Arkova (Illustrations)
★★★★ Ancient Greece, Ancient China...and Mars? Such a deviation from the usual theme - and yet it was ah-mazing! Have you ever looked into the sky and wondered...what would it be like to live up there? Carole does too - and she wrote a little book for you! If you were me and lived on… Continue reading If You Were Me and Lived on…Mars – Carole P. Roman, Mateya Arkova (Illustrations)
The Beginner’s Guide to Runes – Josh Simonds
★★★ ½ By studying the lore and mythology of the ancient Norse people, we not only learn of the origin of the runes, but we also discover the gods and creatures that brought them to us... Ancient runes have been a popular source of divination and connection to Norse mythology for movies and books. This little guide… Continue reading The Beginner’s Guide to Runes – Josh Simonds
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