These adventures are great books featuring boy detectives. These young crime solvers will entertain and intrigue the hard to please readers between nine and twelve. Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements is a mystery with Ted Hammond as the crime solver. Ted is the only sixth grade student in a Nebraska town’s […]
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You never really know what will attract you to a book. The saying goes, “Never judge a book by it’s cover,” and for the most part that is true. But, no, it wasn’t the cover that attracted me to this book, in fact, I had not seen the cover until I received the book in […]
Modern fantasy literature allows for a break with reality. In fantasy, anything is possible, from flying cars, to traveling to other worlds through a simple piece of furniture. For fantasy to succeed, the author needs to suspend the reader’s disbelief of the plot and characters. We accept Frodo and Strider as real because Tolkien makes […]