Bibliography: McDonald, Abby. (2011). The Anti-Prom. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press. ISBN: 978-0763649562 Plot Summary: Prom is supposed to be the best night of your life, right? Not for popular Bliss who catches her BFF and boyfriend making out. Not for bad girl Jolene who can’t believe that she is dressed in pink ruffles risking her [...]
As mentioned briefly here, I am joining Amber at The Literary Wife in an informal reading challenge of sorts as we read and blog our way through the top 100 children’s books as voted on by readers of Elizabeth Bird’s A Fuse #8 Production. Levine, Gail Carson. (1997). Ella Enchanted. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN: 978-0060275105 (hc) 978-0064407052 (pbk) It [...]
Bibliography: Scarrow, Alex. (2010). Time Riders. New York: Walker Books. ISBN: 978-0-8027-2172-3 Plot Summary: They should all be dead. But when a mysterious man offered them a chance to live, they took it. Maddy escaped a plane crash, Liam the sinking of the Titanic, and Sal a horrible fire. From different times, they come together [...]
Bibliography: Soup, Cuthbert. (2010). Another Whole Nother Story. New York: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books. ISBN: 978-1599904368 Plot Summary: At the end of A Whole Nother Story, Ethan Cheeseman and his three children escaped the various n’er do wells by hopping in their time machine and heading to the past to end the family curse and [...]
Bibliography: Dashner, James. (2010). The Scorch Trials. New York: Delacorte Books for Young Readers. ISBN: 978-0385738750 Plot Summary: Thomas and the Gladers solved the maze and escaped the Grievers, but it turns out there is more in store for them. Sun flares have destroyed the Earth and a deadly virus called the Flare is rampaging through the [...]
