by Katherine Arden
When I read the blurb for Small Spaces, I thought it would be fun to read along with my two mid-grade kiddos. One's a girly-girl, and the other is all rough and tough boy, so they have vastly different interests. They do, however, both love creepy stories and very little scares either of them. Needl...
Audience: Middle Grade Format: Audiobook/Library October in East Evansburg, and the last warm sun of the year slanted red through the sugar maples. - first sentence I’ve seen Small Spaces on shelves, but I was never interested in reading it (I’m not even sure why). Turns out it is a scary st...
This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books.I enjoyed this middle-grade book quite a lot. After finishing The Winter of the Witch, I was in a bit of book hangover so I decided to see what else Katherine Arden has written because I needed more of her writing just as soon as possibl...
This was really good! With a broken-down bus, scarecrows, ghosts and a mysterious book, I thought this book had an excellent storyline connecting the present with the past. Since the synopsis is long and detailed, I won’t go into the whole story. I found myself flipping pages as Ollie begins readi...
Every once and awhile I need to read a middle grade novel that doesn't bother the fussy, persnickety man I've become. It often seems when I'm reading books meant for kids that I'm being too particular, that not all books can be 'Harriet the Spy' or 'Stepping on the Cracks', deceptively simple storie...
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