Another from NPR's Backseat Book Club list. I was reading through What's that Book on reddit and someone posted about a book where a kid lives in the forest in a burned out tree. Another poster identified the book as My Side of the Mountain. That description made me want to finally read the book. ...
I really needed a win after starting (and giving up on) 3 separate books so when I picked up My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George I felt pretty confident considering it was a Newberry Honor winner. The introduction made me laugh because it was all about the author's experience running aw...
A friend at university had a comic book with one of the world's greatest titles: "Beautiful stories for ugly children." Here we have another one, a Newberry Winner no less.Two forebodings that dogged me throughout were 1) It read like research that wasn't fully understood. 2) The author has a very E...
written by Jean Craighead George, illustrated by Daniel Powers Most of the illustrations in this book deserve more than one star, but I'm not willing to go up because I hated the story so much. It's informative, but why on earth are the two characters haole? I'm not here for a haole kid to go ar...
This was selected for our mother-daughter book club for the month of January. I would never choose a book like this on my own, but often that is what book club is all about! And this particular book is very much adored by the girl who chose it and according to her she has read it at least 10 times...
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