Ms. Yingling Reads

Although I didn't care much for Home of the Braves , I loved Dark Angel so much that I'm going to read it to my study hall. It'...

Bruce Coville's The Monsters of Morley Manor (2001) was great fun. How can I not love a book with a line like "I can have a midlife...

Curses, The "F" Bomb -- Thank you, Jeanne Willis, for using the "f" bomb by page three of Walking Naked Without a Hat (...

The Westerville Public Library is the greatest library in the world, because several years ago they instituted the Library Link, which deliv...

Hyperion Books for Children sent me a box of uncorrected proofs, and those have been fun. Ally Carter's I'd Tell You I Love You, But...

Forget being J.K.Rowling. I want to be Gordon Korman. He's been writing over 20 years, and gets better and better all the time. I adored...

I have one student who is on the cross country team, and would prefer to read about nothing but running. This is a hard bill to fill, especi...

As much as I had dreaded Anne McCaffrey, anything short of Dune (Worst. Book. Ever.) would have been a relief. But it was rather good, and I...

It took me three days to read this book, which is a long time for me. This is the third book in a trilogy, and probably the best of the bunc...

Read four books last night, all of which were horrible. The dust was thick on the top of the book, and the condition tattered. Out they go. ...

James Vance Marshall's Walkabout (1971) is about two children lost in the Australian wilderness and befriended by an Aboriginal boy. I...

One book I did read and liked-- Malterre's The Last Wolf in Ireland (1990). A good story of a boy trying to save three wolf cubs. I'...

Odd, assorted alphabetical reading last night-- Stephen Manes Make Four Million Dollars by Next Thursday (1991) which was fairly low leverl ...

Didn't get much reading done this weekend, but did look at Ithaka . I liked it better than Troy, which I read one year on spring break, ...

I still use circulation cards, and when they are full, I send them to the authors with nice letters. A lot of authors have written back, and...

There are a few students who enjoy the Stevenson book, but most of them want something a little more modern. After the 7th grade reads The F...

Well, I don't know that I like Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak series, but it has been extremely popular, and it's not half bad. ...

This is about a book I'm not going to buy. My Friend The Enemy (2005) by J.B. Cheaney was good, and I enjoyed it, but it's been done...

Admittedly, it's an odd paring. Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie (2004) , by Jordan Sonnenblick has a great cover, a cool and odd title, l...

It's just not a good sign if I start reading a book and then check to see when it was last checked out, in hopes that it was more than 6...