I am a huge fan of audio books!  DIAMOND WILLOW by Helen Frost was NOT one I could get into.  It was only 2 discs, but I just couldn’t follow it.  There are many points of view in this story.  Reminds me of MULAN with all of the ancestors putting in their two cents. Anyway, [...]

THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX by Mary E. Pearson is set in the future; a time when no antibiotics are effective and human DNA is uploaded and saved . . . kind of reminds me of the Terminator Salvation machines. . . The T 6000 was it? Jenna is 17, but has to learn how [...]

In many economically disadvantaged families, there are so many underlying issues that the children face.  WAITING FOR NORMAL by Leslie Connor hits on many issues that go sadly unnoticed, but exist.  Addie’s mother is bi-polar.  “It’s either all or nothing with her.” The reason Addie doesn’t live with her two little sisters is because Addie’s mother [...]

In ANTSY DOES TIME, RoadKill Raccoon is a parade float that starts the story.  This is the time when Antsy (yes same character as in THE SCHWA WAS HERE) finds out that his friend is dying of PMS.  Every time I heard Neal Shusterman, the narrator of this audio book and author say PMS, I couldn’t help [...]

Since I am going with a group of Young Adults to London, this book was of immediate interest.  When I read the title, THE LONDON EYE MYSTERY by Siobhan Dowd, I immediately thought of one difference I have noticed between children’s literature and young adult. . . the end result can be innocent or result [...]

Growing up in a private Lutheran school from K-12th grade, I never thought about Evolution and Creationism as isolated theories of how we all came to be.  Then my first class at UofH was Biology I, and everything that I believed was pretty much shattered.  “EVOLUTION is how the universe began, there is no god that [...]