Ms. Yingling Reads

Definitely buying this one. Great cover ( shimmery copper skull with corpses for eyeballs!) and a great tag line:" Is a contest worth d...

Demon Keeper was quite a fun read. Not as horrific as some of my students would like, although I wouldn't personally want to be hunted ...

Think the series is The Wereling . Book one is Wounded. I think that readers of Twilight would like this one, although it lacks the romance...

Tina Ferraro's first young adult book was great fun. Unabashedly pink on the cover but more serious on the inside, this will be a hugely...

Sadly, I just found out that this young author passed away in April. http://www.projectgirl.com/ Read Harlem Hustle last night. First off, ...

The books I will buy: Jan Page's Rewind was a great time travel story about a boy in a rock band who goes back in time, after an accide...

What would you wear if you were time traveling? This is very important, you know. Several people at my school and I have discussed this at l...

Michael Daley's Shanghaied to the Moon fills a niche perfectly. Reluctant readers who want science fiction to be a littel more serious ...

This is a lengthy (450 pages) fantasy book and will be great for my avid readers who have finished ALLof Orson Scott Card's Enders books...

Loved the voice on this one. Quoted half the first chapter to my daughter, because it was just funny and fresh. Here is an example (from pg ...

My nine-year-old has decided that all books are boring. This was a shocker. I knew she was starting but not finishing things, but she is a s...

Yang's American Born Chinese was on the just returned shelf, so I took it home. Won Printz and American Book honors, I think. Not bad. ...

If I had read this last installment in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series and put post-it notes at all the good parts (which would have...

Vast downside of being a librarian who is forced to also be a media specialist-- all the overhead projectors, televisions, and other AV equ...

The cover of Dream Factory by Brad Barkley and Heather Hepler should have told me that this would not be a good companion to The Kingdom Ke...

Okay-- too proud of myself that I got the picture up. Since smiley faces are the theme of my library, I had to read this book! It will be pr...

The thing that struck me most about The Case of the Left-Handed Lady and it's predecessor, The Case of the Missing Marquess , was how e...

After my rant yesterday, I finally got a copy of Rick Riordan's The Titan's Curse in my hand (every time I tried to take it home, a...

Our 8th graders just finished up a historical fiction project, and I've helped so many of them with it that it took a bit out of Ann Rin...

Ronni wanted to know what "introspective navel-gazing" was. I thought I had given my list of things in books that I really, really...