By: Chris Lynch Rate: good Richard Riley Moncrief is obsessed with baseball. He doesn’t understand how anyone can not like baseball, and he thinks all boys are destined to at least know how to play baseball, if not be a pro at it. But Richard is going to be a pro. Fred Lynn and Jim…
By: Katherine Rundell Rate: good For fans of survival stories, The Explorer by Katherine Rundell is perfect. Fred, Con, Lila and her five-year-old brother Max are on their way back to England from Manaus when their plane crashes over the Amazon and the pilot dies. The four kids must face predators such as caiman and…
By: Lauren Wolk Rate: good In this touching story by Lauren Wolk, author of Wolf Hollow, a twelve-year-old-girl named Crow was washed up on one of the Elizabeth Islands on a skiff as an infant. Osh, the inhabitant of the island, adopted her. Osh had escaped from his old life in the city, which he…
By: Lauren Wolk Rate: good Annabelle McBride is a twelve-year-old girl during World War II who lives on a farm with her parents, grandparents, Aunt Lily, and her younger brothers James and Henry. She at first is nervous around Toby, a World War I veteran, because he carries three guns around his back and uses…
By: Christian McKay Heidicker Rate: very good This book for young children is wonderful, and it describes friendship. Seven little foxes sit around an old storyteller and listen to her terrifying stories. And here they are: Mia is a young fox whose siblings are infected by the “yellow”, which is a disease that kills the…
By: Jasmine Warga Rate: in between good and very good During the Syrian Revolution, a girl named Jude is forced to move with her pregnant mother from her home in Syria to Cincinnati, America. She misses her revolutionary brother and unrevolutionary father, and her cousin in America, Sarah, does not seem to like her. Jude…