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Games of Deception is a quality young adult nonfiction piece about basketball and the Berlin Games. Directed toward an audience of teens and young adults, the book covers the creation of the game, the formation of the Olympic team, the conflict over whether or not to boycott the games, and the Nazi propaganda machine during... Continue Reading →
Bertagna takes the reader from his birthplace in Ireland to his voyage across the Atlantic and his hikes up countless mountains all over the world. This is John Muir's story told with vibrant energy and many times in his own words from journals. His legacy is on full display as we see Muir's early love... Continue Reading →
First off. I love this book. Russell Weinwright is the Swamp Kid... his parents adopted him after he was found as a baby wrapped in vines just outside of Baton Rouge. Now he's a middle-schooler with algae for hair, tree trunk sized arm, and vines that blast out of his body when he goes into... Continue Reading →
Billed as The Outsiders meets the Illiad, I can definitely see elements of both in A Thousand Fires. But this story and the writing just doesn't resonate with me like either of those pieces. Set in modern day San Francisco, the story is about one girl's desire to enact revenge on the gangs that have... Continue Reading →
Set in a dystopian underwater world about 100 years in the future, The Light at the Bottom of the World pits a talented young woman against the entirety of the British government. The seas rose and the people adapted. They waterproofed their dwellings and learned to travel in tunnels and submersibles. Yet, all these precautions... Continue Reading →
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