Bibliography: Reinhardt, Dana. (2011). The Summer I Learned to Fly. New York: Random House Children’s Books. ISBN: 978-0385739542 Plot Summary: The summer before eighth grade, and Drew is working in her mother’s cheese shop where she hangs out with surf bum Nick (who she also has a crush on.) When she isn’t working, she plays with [...]
Bibliography: Scott, Michael. (2009). The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel: The Sorceress. New York: Delacorte Books for Young Readers. ISBN: 978-0385735292 (hc) 978-0385735308 (pb) Plot Summary: Leaving a destroyed Paris behind them, Nicholas takes the twins Josh and Sophie (and the pages of the codex) to London, dangerous territory of Dr. John Dee, in hopes of finding Gilgamesh the King [...]
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 [...]
