What do you get when you mix together a week at Edisto Island with your best friend, connecting to guys for the first time in your life, meeting a young autistic boy who falls in love with your service dog, and the thrill of protecting a loggerhead turtle's nest? You get the ingredients for Sheri Levy's… Continue reading Seven Days to Goodbye–And a Giveaway!
Tag: coming of age book
What I Saw and How I Lied
Congratulations to Donna Earnhardt who won last week's giveaway and will receive Gretchen Griffith's picture book, "When Christmas Feels Like Home." Don't be discouraged if you didn't win. Next week Deanna Klingel will share her winning query letter along with a chance to win "Cracks In the Ice." Today, I want to share my thoughts… Continue reading What I Saw and How I Lied
The Ballad of Jessie Pearl & A Giveaway!
The only thing that I didn't like about Shannon Hitchcock's debut novel, The Ballad of Jessie Pearl, (Namelos, 2012) is that it ended. The fact that I wanted to know what happened to Jessie, proves that this well-written historical fiction is a must-read for young adult girls, as well as their mothers and grandmothers. The time is… Continue reading The Ballad of Jessie Pearl & A Giveaway!
Riot: Multi-Racial Read #6
This powerful novel written in screenplay format, takes place during four hot days in July, 1863. Walter Dean Myers layers conflict after conflict into this little known story about the riot between African Americans and Irish immigrants in New York City. On the national level, the Civil War rages and Abraham Lincoln has just instituted… Continue reading Riot: Multi-Racial Read #6