Ms. Yingling Reads

Open note to all YA authors-- before you start on your next book, please talk to some actual young adults. Or even people who deal with youn...

How could I have forgotten to mention this series? They aren't as good as 13 Little Blue Envelopes, nothing could be, but if you need to...

I don't hate everything. Really. Loved Schlosser's Chew on This , an expose of the fast food industry. It had historical foundation,...

This was one very intense book about wrestling. Cutting weight, running until you puke-- wrestling in all its glory. I was riveted, however,...

Read Last Days yesterday. Had to wonder what all of the rock band stuff was-- interesting and compellingly written, but shouldn't we be ...

Read Notes from a Midnight Driver and read so many passages aloud to my daughter that she had to read it, too. I don't know how this aut...

Everlost is my son's second favorite book. (First is Lubar's Flip. He likes reality based fantasy.) It is a complicated and textured...

While her Theseus, Odysseus , and many other titles were quite good, I think I will pass on Cyrano . While I enjoyed it, I can't see man...

Always on the lookout for football books, I thought this adult work would be worth a try and was pleasantly surprised. Nothing objectionable...

The Yearling is a wonderful piece of classic literature. Award winning, in fact. And it bored me out of my skull. Is anything ever going to...

Even though we had four snow days, I didn't read much. Just some more Beany Malone books, plus I did a LOT of sewing. Did read 101 Dalma...

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...