Book Review: THE SEARCH FOR THE HOMESTEAD TREASURE: A MYSTERY By Ann Treacy Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2016. $16.95 The title of Ann Treacy’s The Search for the Homestead Treasure sounds as though the early Famous Five have sprung back into action in a book that will engage the reader with a mystery suitably embellished […]
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Book Review: HOLLOW CITY
HOLLOW CITY By Ransom Riggs Narrated by Kirby Heyborne CD: Blackstone Audio, 2014. (11 hrs, 39 mins) $29.95 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, the first installment of Ransom Riggs’ Peculiar Children series, was a surprise best-seller in 2011. Like many of the best Young Adult books, the novel pulled no punches: war, death, betrayal, […]
Book Review: I’LL GIVE YOU THE SUN
I’LL GIVE YOU THE SUN By Jandy Nelson New York: Dial, 2014. $13.64 Family secrets, betrayal, and an all-encompassing love for art serve as the catalysts in Jandy Nelson’s I’ll Give You the Sun, which introduces readers to estranged twins Noah and Jude. Told in alternating chapters—Noah’s narration takes place when the twins are thirteen, […]