Ms. Yingling Reads

My PermaBound rep gave me a copy of Simmon's Vandal . I liked Pool Boy (13 Mar 2006) a lot, and Vanda l was not a disappointment. Boy w...

Pale Phoenix (1994) was a good time travel/mystery/suspense book. It hasn't gone out a whole lot, but I think I can recommend it. It is...

It snowed on Sunday, and I felt like hibernating. Instead, I hauled a stack of Lenora Mattingly Weber's Beany Malone books out and start...

So the question is: How did a book (1987) that has been used for years to help children come to terms with unexpected death suddenly become ...

If you have to pick up a historical fiction book, you can't go too far wrong with this author. I read Sarah's Ground last night, wh...

Loved 13 Little Blue Envelopes . Bought my own copy. Have three here at the library; they are never on the shelf. However, I haven't lik...

First, I don't really believe this on a personal level. I collect teen fiction from the 1950s, but it's hard to get students to chec...

Adored Dizzy . Had to buy a second copy, the first one is out so much. Read Indigo Blue (10/20/2006) from the public library, and liked it ...

I use Teenerads.com rather extensively for reading reviews, and one early morning I entered a contest (had to pick five books you would give...

A student (who also loaned me Leven Thumps , which I could NOT get through) loaned me Fablehaven by Brandon Mull . I was a little apprehen...

The 7th grade girls Looooooove problem novels. They especially want drugs! Abuse! Makes for much cheery reading. However, most books of this...

Read The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce and it was not as bad as I thought. The girls who are liking Meyers' Twilight and can handle...

Finally, a copy of The Sea of Monsters was returned and there were no students who had it on reserve. I had it in my briefcase to take home...

The Cookcamp was an easy read-- a lot of people eating pie. A whole lot. Not a lot of a plot, but it has a whopping 6 AR points, so I'm...

Wow. Cornish needs to get out more. There are over 100 pages of accompanying maps, glossaries and diagrams with this book. It seemed good in...

Well, not me personally, but for books involving these, but books that are still appropriate. Susan Shaw's Black-eyed Susan was very go...

Two titles: Dean Vincent Carter's Hand of the Devil and Laurie Gwen Shapiro's Brand X: The Boyfriend Account. The first was about a...

Zipped my way through several titles in the book fair: McCaughrean, Geraldine. Peter Pan in Scarlet . Quite good. A worthy sequel to the ori...

Okay, Hatchet was good. The rest of the Brian books I could handle. Mr. Tuck et circulates frequently in my library. But The Island ? The M...

Not liking anything by Lauren Myracle. Must be the writing, because the books always sound intriguing. The latest, Rhymes with Witches uses...