Ms. Yingling Reads

I'm old. This is proven by the fact that every time I see a graphic novel/Japanese anime version of anything I think "Oh, look! It...

Warning: Recently received sizable order of Simon Pulse books to appease the throngs of girls who want to read pink books. At great personal...

I'd heard good things about the Bluford High series (Various authors), but they were hard to find in prebinds, and my orders kept being...

I love time travel books, but the older I get, the more they make my head hurt. This was true of Yestermorrow, Inrage, Blindsighted , and Fu...

Chan Kim's family moves from California, where they have a grocery store and a comfortable life in a Korean community, to a small town i...

Alcatraz Smedry has a talent for breaking things, a skill that gets him in trouble on his birthday, when he sets fire to the kitchen of his ...

Kidnapped , by Robert Louis Stevenson, is one of those great books that is unco hampered by archaic language. If I stopped cold in the middl...

Jay Asher's book has gotten a lot of buzz, and for good reason. It is a mesmerizing look at the reasons a teenage girl has committed sui...

Posted about Muchamore's Divine Madness on October 08, 2007, and just now got the first in the series, The Recruit , and only now becau...

This is probably the Avi title that I have liked the most. Some of th author's older titles have not aged well ( A Place Called Ugl y an...

This is the second time I have looked at Dominque Paul's The Possibility of Fireflies. I had forgotten the sprinkling of obscenities, t...

It took a long time to locate a copy of this sequel to Breathing Underwater , which chronicles Nick's abusive relationship with Caitlin....

If you have a copy of Thea Beckman's 1975 Crusade in Jeans , dust it off and give it to one of your Surcliff-loving history buffs. My da...

I know, I know-- good books should be good books for all, but the reality is that most girls want different books than boys, and vice versa....

I read this years ago when I spent the summer reading authors named Smith. This is a problem novel extraordinaire, so it should be appealing...

During 1981-82, there was a television show on Sunday evenings that dealt with time travel-- Voyagers! After a steady diet of Tom's Mid...

"He was sitting in his study when the monster came. It tapped on the glass of the French windows to be let in. Like he had a choice. It...

Sundee Frazier has done a wonderful job of creating a dynamic ten-year-old character who loves rocks, scientific studies and Tae Kwon Do, m...

Blame it on the fact that I have spent all my money for the year, and have a book order for August that would take my entire budget. I'v...

Managed to read The Carnivorous Carnival, The Slippery Slope, and The Grim Grotto. I find that I get very distracted by them now, since I am...