Nan’s Notes: The Maze Runner

by James Dashner
October 6th, 2009 by Random House
374 pages

The Maze Runner tells the story of a group of boys and one girl, who are trying to solve the mystery of the maze. These kids live together in the Glade, a large walled in area surrounded by a giant maze. At night the maze is crawling [...]

Sunday Salon: Holiday Gifts (December 13, 2009)

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I love, love, love giving books as gifts. Maybe it’s because I love getting books as gifts. Maybe it’s because I want the person who’s receiving the book to enjoy the book as much as I did. Maybe it’s because I [...]

Sunday Salon: November Wrap Up

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I just can’t believe it’s December! I’ve been having a blast doing my Christmas shopping and getting ready for the holidays. Today I am going to the bookstore to buy a bunch of gifts for people. There is nothing better than [...]

Nan’s Notes: American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang

Gene Luen Yang
Age Range: Young Adult
Pub. Date: December 2008
233 pp
colored by cartoonist Lark Pien

Awards:

finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards
2007 Michael L. Printz Award.

I read this book back in October during the Read-a-thon. I really wish I had written the review before now! I returned the book many weeks ago, so this is from my [...]

Nan’s Notes: Dork Diaries – Tales from a Not-So Fabulous Life

by Rachel Renee Rusell
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Pub. Date: June 2009
Age Range: 12 and up
282 pages

I won this book through a giveaway on Goodreads.com.
The first thing I noticed when I got the book Dork Diaries:  Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life, is that it is packaged very similarly to Diary of a Wimpy Kid by [...]

Nan’s Notes: Catching Fire

by Suzanne Collins
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Pub. Date: September 2009
ISBN-13: 9780439023498
391 pp
Series: Hunger Games Series, #2

This review contains a spoiler part way through. The spoiler is labeled and you will need to highlight the text in order to read it.
I read The Hunger Games this summer after seeing it on so many blogs. I loved it [...]

Nan’s Notes: Found

by  Margaret Peterson Haddix

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Pub. Date: April 2009
Age Range: 8 to 12
314pp
Series: Missing Series, #1

DCF nominee
Found opens with a mysterious plane arriving at the airport. An airport employee goes to the gate to let everyone off, but no one comes out of the plane. The employee goes into the plane and [...]