Posted by: blogando on: July 16, 2009
Amateau, Gigi. A Certain Strain of Peculiar. 2009. 261p. Candlewick, $16.99. (978-0-7636-3009-6). Gr. 6-8: A Fed up with her classmates’ bullying and her increasing panic attacks, 13-year-old Mary Harold Woods runs away to live with her grandmother where she finds her place while building her muscles, caring for a Black Angus cow, helping wrangle the […]
Posted by: blogando on: July 14, 2009
D’Arcangelo, Lyndsey. The Trouble with Emily Dickinson. Alpha World Press, Oct. 2008. 978-0-9821044-0-8. Grades 8 to 12. I almost didn’t include a photo of the cover for this book because it’s so, um, ugly. It’s a shame, because the book itself is charming. The publishers compare the story to Romeo and Juliet, but I think […]