Category Archives: Kid-Lit/Middle Grade

Review: Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Jenn

  Reading level: Ages 9-12 Hardcover: 128 pages Publisher: HarperCollins; 1st edition (September 13, 1991) ISBN-10: 0060217944 Source: Personal copy Scary Stories 3 wraps up the Scary Stories trilogy.  Like the others, it contains a collection of scary folklores/legends collected … Continue reading →

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Review: More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Jenn

Reading level: Ages 9-12 Hardcover: 128 pages Publisher: HarperCollins (August 24, 2010) ISBN-10: 0060835214 Source: Personal copy Yesterday, I reviewed Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, a collection of folklore collected by Alvin Schwartz. More Scary Stories to Tell … Continue reading →

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Review: Guardians of Ga’hoole: The Capture by Kathryn Lasky

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Jenn

Reading level: Ages 9-12 Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks (August 1, 2010) ISBN-10: 0545253063 Source: Big Honcho Media Soren is a young barn owl who lives with his family in the kingdom of Tyto experiencing the typical barn owl … Continue reading →

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Review: Spaceheadz by Jon Scieszka

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Jenn

Reading level: Ages 9-12 Hardcover: 176 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing (June 22, 2010) ISBN-10: 1416979514 Source: Publisher Michael K.  just started 5th grade in a brand new school in a brand new town.  If that’s not bad … Continue reading →

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Review: Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten? by Audrey Vernick

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Jenn

Reading level: Ages 4-8 Hardcover: 32 pages Publisher: Balzer & Bray; 1 edition (June 22, 2010) ISBN-10: 006176275X Source: Personal copy Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten is an charming and adorable book about preparing your child (or buffalo!) for … Continue reading →

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Review: How Rocket Learned to Read by Tad Hills

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Jenn

Reading level: Ages 4-8 Hardcover: 40 pages Publisher: Schwartz & Wade; 1 edition (July 27, 2010) ISBN-10: 0375858997 Source: Library Rocket is an adorable little puppy who loves to do little puppy things, like chase leaves and chew sticks.  At … Continue reading →

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Mini Review: The Brain Full of Holes by Martin Chatterton

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Jenn

Reading level: Ages 9-12 Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Peachtree Publishers (March 1, 2010) ISBN-10: 156145527X Source: Publisher In Chatterton’s second book featuring Theophilus Nero Hercule Sherlock Wimsey Father Brown Marlowe Spade Christie Edgar Allen Brain (aka The Brain) and his … Continue reading →

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Tales of a (Formerly) Reluctant Reader: The Tighty Whitey Spider by Kenn Nesbitt

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Jenn

Reading level: Ages 9-12 Paperback: 128 pages Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky; Pap/Com edition (April 1, 2010) ISBN-10: 1402238339 Source: Publisher Summary: a collection of over dozens of humorous and outrageous poems about animals! The portion of this review listed in italics … Continue reading →

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Tales of a (Formerly) Reluctant Reader: Episode One

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Jenn

Today I would like to tell you about the Black Lagoon Adventures #11: The Snow Day from the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler. I picked this book because we had a blizzard right before Christmas, school was canceled, and winter … Continue reading →

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Review: School of Fear by Gitty Daneshvari

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Jenn

  Hardcover: 352 pages Reading level: Ages 9-12 Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers ISBN-10: 031603326X ISBN-13: 978-0316033268     Madeleine Masterson is deathly afraid of bugs.  She walks around with a veil over her face to protect her from any … Continue reading →

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