Dan Sumner, 13, and Nate Templeton, 12, have been best friends since elementary school and their two favorite things in the world are playing baseball for the Mira Giants and comic books, but not just any comic books. They are devoted readers of Captain Nexus. In fact, each month, on the day the newest issue […]
Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk
Published by Dutton Books Summary: Ellie’s family has moved to a farm on a mountain in Maine after losing almost all their money in the Great Depression. Ellie and her father love the self-sufficiency of the farm, while her mother and older sister Esther hate it. When their father is hit by a falling tree […]
Review: The Lost Soul Atlas
Twig sneaks out one night to follow his father to the Black Market despite being forbidden to ever do so. There Twig is attacked and the two are separated. Unable to locate his Da, Twig finds himself alone on the streets, fighting to stay alive. He meets the homeless Flea with whom a friendship is […]
Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte
Published by Scholastic Press Summary: 11-year-old Mary Lambert lives in Chilmark, a community on Martha’s Vineyard, where, in 1805, many of the residents are deaf. Mary and her father are deaf; her mother is hearing, as was her brother George, who died recently in an accident that Mary feels she caused. Their community is somewhat […]