Ms. Yingling Reads

Enter to Win Patrick Carman's Atherton Trilogy! Thanks to Nicole Bruce of The Book Report Network , I am giving away a three book set ...

I liked Susan Runholt's title, which utilizes a formula which is always successful-- one easy, well known word (third) with one unusual ...

Came across this collection of essays edited by Dan Gutman when I visited his web site, and it is a wonderful compendium of useful tips for ...

Valentine's Broken Soup continued the trend of depressing books yesterday with the story of Rowan, who is given a negative of a photo ...

Unfortunately, nothing that my students ask for. Fine books all, but I don't see them circulating at my library. Brown and Elish. 13 . A...

This is a topic that has come up frequently in recent days, so when I saw Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction ...

In Joey's mind, he is a great football player, but in reality, the high school freshman is the team water boy and a part time worker in...

Having just read Farah Mendlesohn's article, The Campaign for Shiny Futures in The Horn Book magazine, it was interesting to read the ...

Nancy Springer is the rare author who has never written a book I disliked. Although I have neverread her first series, The Books of Isle , ...

Nancy Hope Wilson's Flapjack Waltzes (1998) is out of print, and the copy from my library has never been checked out. This is too bad,...

I love Melissa Kantor's books because she writes my favorite sort of stuff-- pink books. Girlfriend Material was so good that I don...

The Joseph Delaney The Last Apprentice series is extremely popular in my school. The Spook's Tale and Other Horrors will not sit for t...

Beth Fantaskey's Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side was one that I picked up because there is an insatiable need for vampi...

Ellen Potter's newest book, Slob , comes out on May 14th! I haven't read it yet, because the ARCMs. Potter was kind enough to send ...

Perhaps inspired by my new love of Here There Be Dragons , I picked up two books about King Arthur. One was the 1998 Rosalind Kerven Dorlin...

Mother Reader has thrown down the gauntlet with the fourth annual 48 Hour Book Challenge! The weekend will be June 5-7 2009. Last year, thi...

A student gave me Eason's Hungry (2007), which I had somehow missed. It turned out to be a great science fiction book for students who...

Rick Riordan's The Last Olympian is being released today! I got a copy of it through undisclosed, surreptious means, so was able to re...

Did you order a copy of Michael Carroll's Quantum Prophecy : The Reckoning yet? It's coming out on May 14th, and I have students ...

Am giving a presentation to teachers on "Connecting Boys and Books". Since I have an "honorary guy" certificate from the...