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New Book: One Crazy Summer

Over the weekend I read One Crazy Summer. What a good book! This is a historical fiction; I usually don’t read those. At first I thought it wasn’t my kind of book, but now I realize it’s anyone’s kind of book.
This book takes place in the ’60s. Delphine and her sisters – Vonetta and Fern [...]

LOVE, AUBREY by Suzanne LaFleur

This is Suzanne LaFleur’s first book. It is about an eleven year old girl, Aubrey. Aubrey’s Dad and younger sister recently died in a car crash, and Aubrey’s mother abandoned her. Aubrey tries living on her own (with Sammy, her pet goldfish, of course) but it doesn’t work out so well. She moves up to [...]

Al Capone Shines my Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko

New book – Al Capone Shines my Shoes. It was amazing! Gennifer Choldenko brings life into all her characters; especially Moose, Piper, and Al Capone. This is the second book in the series, so I recommend reading Al Capone Does my Shirts first. It came out in September, so it’s rather new. However, it takes [...]

SLOB by Ellen Potter

This past week I read Slob, by Ellen Potter, and it was fantastic. Owen (the main character and teller of the story) doesn’t give you all the details; he rolls them to you one by one and completely out of order. It’s a really thought-provoking book; it brings you into Owen and Jeremy’s restored lives [...]