Love Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Stargirl #2. Alfred A. Knopf. (August 2007) Library Dear Leo,                                                                                      I love beginnings. What better way to celebrate than to begin writing a letter to my once (and future?) boyfriend. Stargirl has moved and left everything …

Hot Summer Reads Readathon 2013

I'm signing up for another read-a-thon. I wasn't exactly attacking my stack of to read books the last time. This time I'm going for it. I'm really obsessed with these readathons. The Hot Summer Readathon is hosted by Patrick @ The Bookshelves and Jen @ YA Romantics. This should be …

Mechanical Fish, Building Dreams, & a Healing Bread

I haven't done a post on picture books for a long time so this is as good a time as any. Basically I will be featuring three picture books and the artwork in them. The first book is written by Candace Fleming and illustrated by Boris Kulikov.

Clink! Clankety-bang! Thump-whirr!  That's the so…