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 [...]

The Old Willis Place: a Ghost Story

by Mary Downing Hahn

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date: July 2007
Age Range: 9 to 12
208pp

This is a book I received in a multicultural children’s lit class last year but we never got around to reading it. I think it’s time it was read!
Synopsis (from www.bn.com)
Diana and her little brother Georgie have been living in the woods [...]