Maya Running by Anjali Banerjee My review rating: 4 of 5 starsIndian-born Maya Mukherjee attends middle school in a small town in Manitoba. Besides struggling with the usual issues of adolescence (including pimples and braces), Maya straddles the line between the two cultures, with neither foot firmly planted in either one. Maya yearns to belong. [...]
April 9th, 2009
BONES ROCK! by Peter Larson
Bones Rock!: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Paleontologist by Peter Larson My review rating: 5 of 5 starsMost books for kids on the subject of paleontology serve up pretty much the same predictable soup full of dinosaur bones, fossils, and geological (yawn) history. Even the proposed activities can all start to sound [...]
April 2nd, 2009
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee My review rating: 5 of 5 stars In TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Harper Lee captures the essence of childhood amidst the tensions of a small southern town torn by prejudice and intolerance. I don’t know how old I was when I first read TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD — [...]
