I am pretty sure that The Swamp Fox, Francis Marion was on my to-be-read shelves longer than any other book I currently own.  I believe I b...

Whoa.  How is it I've never read an Ann Rinaldi book before?  I guess our small-town library must just not have had any of her books, ev...

I picked this book for my 3rd-5th grade literature class at our homeschool co-op to read because I am focusing on the importance of settings...

I loved this book as a teen.  I loved this book again now. Streams to the River, River to the Sea  is a fictionalized account of Sacagawea...

It's funny -- I remember this being one of my favorite books as a youngster... but I only remembered the first third or so of it.  As fa...

Funny thing: I thought I had read this book before.  I assigned it to one of my homeschool co-op classes to read for this month, remembering...

Remember when I read Girl in Disguise  by Greer McAllister a few years ago and lamented that there are no biographies about Kate Warne, the ...

Not only is this a rousingly good mystery in its own right, but this book has made me aware of a classic mystery author I can't wait to ...

I remember reading this book when I was in my early teens and thinking it was absolutely fascinating.  I read it about the same time as Capt...

This was such a fun, fast read!  I am happy to report that I liked it MUCH better than book three in this series, Miss Kopp's Midnight...

I got a copy of this from a yard sale when I was a kid, and I read it and read it and read it and read it.  Harriet Tubman was a big hero ...

Eva Schon  has such good taste in books.  And she's so good at figuring out what I will like.  While I didn't love this as much as...

This book is every bit as fun as I remembered it being!  I chuckled aloud more than once.  And my two oldest kids thoroughly enjoyed it to...

I loved Girl Waits with Gun .  I adored Lady Cop Makes Trouble .  But I only enjoyed Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions .  And I think the...

This book has been on my to-read list since 2002.  At least.  I'm not even kidding.  I know, because I got a little book for my colleg...

I've had such a great string of reading luck lately -- book after book that have been awesome! Girl in Disguise  is a fictional book...

You might remember how much I ooohed and ahhhed over Girl Waits With Gun  this summer.  I snatched up a copy of the sequel while I was on ...

So... I didn't like this book as much as I was expecting to.   I liked it so much more!!!   I had read something about it somewhere a ...

I've had this for a couple years now, but never got around to reading it until now.  (I should post a picture of my TBR bookcase so yo...

I didn't think it was possible for me to feel sorrier for F. Scott Fitzgerald, but I was wrong.  This jewel of a novel depicts his las...