Building Lifelong Readers

Worms for Lunch ? by Leonid Gore was published in 2011. This cute book has cut outs on each page and begins with a mouse asking who eats wo...

  The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver was published in 1998 and is the story of colonizers in Kilanga on the African continent.  Nat...

 Story Thieves by James Riley was published in 2015 and is the first in a five book series. I listened to the audio version and it was well...

Max and the Midknights by Lincoln Peirce was published in 2019 and is a fun adventure told with comics and prose. I listened to the audio v...

Our NICU book project is beginning its eighth year! My plan of doing a one time donation to honor my twins who did not survive pregnancy is ...

Braced by Alyson Gerber was published in 2017 and is the story of Rachel, a girl with scoliosis who needs to wear a back brace 23 hours a d...

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy was published in 2019 and is a quiet, kind, and gentle book. My only complaint...

  Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison was first published in 1947, yet it is still applicable to today. Ellison tells the story of an unnamed bl...

This Is My America by Kim Johnson was published in 2020, and from the first page to the last, this story is compelling. The story begins wi...

The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor was published in 2018. I listened to this book because I loved Connor's book Waiting...

 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot was published in 2010, and I finally listened to the well narrated audio version. I...

Tracing Stars by Erin E Moulton was published in 2012 and is the story of Indie Lee Chickory. She doesn't fit in at school or in the to...

Hidden by Helen Frost was published in 2011. This story is written in verse, and I found the story compelling enough to read in one sitting....

Recently Matt (my youngest son) has introduced me to light novels. Light novels are generally written before the author/artist writes the Ma...

Amina's Voice by Hena Khan was published in 2017 and is one of the books I purchased a few months ago when I was looking for books by PO...