by Steve Watkins (Author) WOW! This kid’s action and history book by Steve Watkins is fascinating, exciting, AND well-researched. I lived through the Vietnam War years, but even I learned things in this middle-grade book I’d only heard hinted at before. The three friends, Anderson, Greg, and Julie, have a musical band and practice in Anderson’s uncle’s basement.…
by Victoria Tait (Author) What fun! Dotty and Keya are back in Victoria Tait‘s new cozy mystery, AN AUCTION OF SECRETS, and they both have new jobs! It looks like Dotty is moving into management at the antique house, and Keya now peers minutely at crime scene evidence instead of chasing the bad guys. (Okay, she fudges…
by Jared C. Wilson (Author) An audiobook for 7-12 grade kids. This book begins in the normal world of Washington State. Four high-school graduates (Bradley, Archer, Jason, and Tim) finish a weekend campout (the last one before they split and head for colleges) and start home, back to Echo Island. The ferryman seems a bit strange,…
by by Jean Merrill (Author) An Award-winning middle-grade book. Jean Merrill’s THE TOOTHPASTE MILLIONAIRE is a fun, fascinating, and informative kids’ book. Wow, I learned how to make toothpaste, figure profit/loss margins, do advertising, what are stockholders and a Board of Directors, and how to get loans. All with a fun story about a sixth-grader named Rufus…
by James Ponti (Author), Lisa Flanagan (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) An audiobook. LONDON CALLING, the sixth City Spies adventure by James Ponti, is another amazing story about the young Special MI-6 spies whom the Second-in-Command of British espionage, calls “those magnificent children.” Each of these kids, aged from 9 to 14, was once orphaned and then found in…
THE BOY ON THE BEACH by Mary Towne (Author) It’s August 1943, and while many of the Long Island neighborhood young men are fighting in WWII, the folks at home are battling a polio epidemic among their kids. It’s scary because no one knows how the horrible disease is contracted. A notion going around is that you…
by Chris Ewan (Author), Simon Vance (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) An Audiobook THE GOOD THIEF’S GUIDE TO BERLIN, by Chris Ewan is the third “Good Thief’s Guide” mystery I’ve read, and although they all have a similar plot line, this one is especially twisty. Charlie Howard is a gentleman burglar, an expert at his job, polite and thoughtful towards…
The rules are simple. Each Saturday get the word prompt, follow the guidelines to write a 6-word story and submit it. (Read the ones that others submit and laugh, cry, or scratch your head.) The prompt for the latest Saturday (April 6) is = PRAY. I wonder what YOU would write.
by Alexander Maclaren (Author), David Cochran Heath (Narrator), Blackstone Publishing (Publisher) An Audiobook Alexander Maclaren‘s book about the Bible character, David, using his Psalms to tell the story, is eye-opening and amazing. I confess, as I listened to the book, I wished I had a print copy to follow along with each of the Psalms. (Maybe I’ll pick up a…
by Elizabeth Speller (Author), Matthew Brenher (Narrator), Dreamscape Media, LLC (Publisher) An Audiobook Elizbeth Speller’s historical fiction book, THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN EMMETT is a caring but tragic story exposing a mystery of heartache and loss. Soldiers of the “Great War” reluctantly tell their stories to a man who simply wants to discover what happened to one soldier … for…
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