Ms. Yingling Reads

E.L. Young is to be commended for integrating science and technology into great action/adventure books. The group from STORM is back, as t...

Scarlett's family lives in a vintage hotel in New York City, but they aren't rich-- they have run the hotel for generations, and it...

Made it to the library by myself, and checked out a lot of good books, many of which really don't meet my needs. One that I will buy is...

A must-have fantasy series for middle schools is Cinda Williams Chima's The Warrior Heir (which I reviewed on May 11, 2006), The Wizar...

If you thought Sam Hill made some bad choices in Goblins!, then meet Gecko and Terence in Gordan Korman's new book, The Juvie Three . ...

Take one slacker, one troublemaker, and some bottle rockets and mix them with a whole world of drolling, nasty, furry, black-blooded goblin...

Started off my evening with Scott Morse's The Magic Pickle , a graphic novel (in full color!) published by Scholastic Graphix, which als...

Looks , by Madeleine George, would be a good book for high school but was overly bleak for middle school. Meghan, the fattest girl in town,...

I've had some girls interested in reading Little Women lately, but even though they are strong readers, they couldn't get into it....

Sorry, kids, no books this week because I've been moving furniture to align with updated library reality. (Pictures of library coming so...

As a rule, I don't like fantasy, but when it clicks, it clicks, and I loved this sequel to Stoneheart . George has broken a statue (bei...

One I had to read quickly because there's such a line-- Ninth Grade Slays by Heather Brewer . In this second installment of The Chroni...

Maybe our teachers do an outstanding job teaching this title, but it is a perennial favorite. I had a student once who didn't want to r...

Just checked my mail after dealing three classes at once (yesterday I wondered why I felt so frazzled-- I had about 475 students visit the ...

Since several of our teachers are requiring mystery, horror or suspense books for November, I was glad of Neil Gaiman's latest. It has ...

With the economy figuring so largely in the news, and so much talk of "the next great depression", I pulled out a couple of...

Sunny is a hockey player who puts up with her twin, Rayne, a Goth girl. When Sunny accompanies her sister to a club, she is approached by a ...

First, I love, love, love Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson books. Second, The Maze of Bones is a fine book, with lots of very clever lines...

Mary Stolz was a ubiquitous writer for children in the 1960s and 70s, and died in 2006. She wrote a wide range of books, but only four sur...

Rosemary Sutcliffe's The Mark of the Horse Lord (1965)has only left the shelf eight times in 30 years here. The last student to read i...