Ms. Yingling Reads

Hmmm. This title, from 1978, didn't do much for me because it was depressing. It ended with a note of hope, but when Tippy's grandmo...

Well, here I thought I was going to be able to pull this Christopher Morley title and create more space on the shelves. Written in 1917, las...

This is one of those titles (Jean Merrill, 1964) that I probably read in the third or fourth grade, but had no real memory of, so I had to r...

I love the Cathy Hopkins Mates, Dates and series. Funny, light, set in London: what more could I want? After receiving a circulation card ...

Well, being curious after reading Necklace of Kisses , I got Witch Baby, Baby Be-Bop, Missing Angel Juan, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys and...

Rather depressing pile this weekend. Bleah. Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon (1927). I'm sorry, Newbery or no, it's going to be almo...

Liked Princess and the Pauper (2003) , loved Lucky T (2005), and really, really enjoyed Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys (2006)....

Morey's Gentle Ben (1965) was a very serviceable and engaging story which will be great for my animal adventure and Jim Kjelgaard fans....

Two slow moving titles (circulation-wise, that is)-- Claire Rudolph Murphy's Gold Star Sister (1994) and Steven Mooser's The Hitchh...

Really liked Sue Corbett's Free Baseball (2006). The boys will love the idea of running away from home and working for a baseball team,...

Ah, Weetzie Bat. How little we know ye. Francesca Lia Block's Necklace of Ki ss es (2006) was screaming to be read. Weetzie has a midlif...

Finished McCaffrey's Dragondrum s, and feel that I can now finish off the series (what I have of it) without taking the entire summer. I...

Gloria Miklowitz's Good-bye Tomorrow (1987) is interesting, but I wonder if the students today won't quite get it. It is about a bo...

Didn't get as much reading done over break as I would have liked, but did get most of the way through the Dragonsong , Dragonsinger and...

I think I've picked up Eve Bunting's The Presence (2003) before and didn't like it, but this time I enjoyed it very much. It is...

Having received the nicest letter from this author, I looked up some of her nonmystery books at the public library. I loved Hawkins (1977),...

This author had a real hit with Candy (2005), although I was less thrilled with Kissing the R ain (2004) and Martin Pyg (2002). Over the w...

Kirsten Smith, while not using traditional verse, did a nice job with this new title. There are two poems ( Fourteen and Population 9,761 )...

This new title, by Shannon Hale, was good but problematic. I don't know who the audience will be about this semi-fantasy story of a moun...

I know, I know; it happens to the best of us. Maybe it was the McCullers that pushed me over the edge, but the only thing I read over the we...