Currently Reading: The Leanin’ Dog

by K.A. Nuzum
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date: September 2008
Age Range: 8 to 12
250pp

DCF Nominee

Synopsis: (From K.A. Nuzum’s website)
In the snow-covered Colorado mountains, it’s coming on Christmas. But eleven-year-old Dessa Dean has just about given up on ever being happy again. Her hardworking father can’t possibly fill the huge hole in her heart that her mother’s tragic [...]

Currently Reading: Diamond Willow

by Helen Frost
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date: April 2008
111 pp
Series: Frances Foster Bks.

DCF Nominee
From Helen Frost’s (the author) website:
Set in interior Alaska, Diamond Willow tells the story of 12-year-old Willow, a dogmusher, and her lead dog, Roxy. The story is told in diamond-shaped poems in Willow’s voice, with prose sections in the voices of [...]