Bibliography: Bacigalupi, Paola. (2010). Ship Breaker. New York: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. ISBN: 9780316056212. Plot Summary: When teenage Nailer and his friend Pima find a luxury clipper ship stranded after a devastating hurricane, they figure this is their “lucky strike.” They can sell the precious metal and other salvage and never have to [...]
A few weeks ago when I participated in the 48 Hour Book Challenge, I meet Amber who blogs at The Literary Wife. She was reading The Children of Green Knowe, and I mentioned how much I had enjoyed it. Amber has set herself a personal reading challenge of reading all top 100 children’s books from [...]
Bibliography: Roberts, Nora. (2009). Vision in White. New York: Berkley Trade. ISBN: 978-0425227510. Plot Summary: Mackensie loves shoes. She loves her job, capturing special moments in people’s lives for the wedding business she runs with her lifetime best friends. She really loves her best friends, who love her even when she’s not at her best. [...]
Bibliography: Thomson, Keith. (2010). Once a Spy. New York: Doubleday. ISBN: 978-0385530781 Plot Summary: When down on his luck gambler Charlie brings his father Drummond home from the social agency that found him wandering the streets and his father’s apartment explodes, he starts to wonder if some of the old man’s mumblings about spies and [...]
Bibliography: Simner, Janni Lee. (2010). Thief Eyes. New York: Random House Books For Young Readers. ISBN: 9780375866708 Plot Summary: Hoping to figure out what happened, sixteen year old Haley forced her father to bring her to the exact spot in Iceland where her mother disappeared a year ago. Instead of her mother, Haley finds an [...]
