Wow wow wow! This is what I'm here for. The first book from NPR's Ultimate Backseat Bookshelf that I enjoyed. When I started I worried it was going to be too much. But then I got into the characters and the story and it's one of those books you can't stop reading (which leads to you almost crying ...
After years of avoiding Rumpelstiltskin retellings while I worked on my own, it's been fun to read different interpretations of one of my top three favorite fairy tales. This book takes for its premise that the queen never guessed Rumpelstiltskin's name, so he ended up making off with her child. As ...
Twelve-year-old Jack tells the story of when Joseph comes to live with him and his parents on a farm as a foster child. They offer him a safe home, love, support and loyalty - all things he didn't have before in an abusive household or in prison. But Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby d...
What a wonderful novel, from the beginning pages I knew that Gary Schmidt had created another fantastic story, a story with great energy and significance. Some of his characters are edgy and I loved how some of his sentences are short and direct, they simply want to say what they mean and move on. I...
Holling Hoodhood is really in for it. He's just started seventh grade with Mrs. Baker, a teacher he knows it out to get him. Why else would she make him read Shakespeare . . . outside of class? The year is 1967, and everyone has bigger things to worry about. There's Vietnam for one thing, and then t...
I'm a huge Gary Schmidt fanboy--I've read literally every novel he's published. Lizzie Bright and The Wednesday Wars each earned a spot on my all-time-favorite books list; Schmidt is one of only two or three authors to have two books on that select list. For my money, he's the best writer working in...
There are layers in this story. One layer is that it is historical fiction. The island off the coast of Maine where the black inhabitants were chased away to make room for a hotel does exist and the story did happen. The author added more layers with a story about a minister's son and his friendship...
This is one of those books I wouldn't have read on my own but that ended up to be a worthwhile read nonetheless. It starts out a little slow and ends feeling a bit overpacked and jumbled, but has a long, satisfying stretch of "middle" inbetween.The voice is what makes this book shine. Gary Schmidt m...
Good story, good message, should get readers thinking. Downsides -- some of the extra storylines that did illustrate some aspect of racism, immigration, etc...relied a little too much on coincidence or led to a feeling of "really?". Overall, I did really like it. There are references to violence ...
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