Ms. Yingling Reads

Our school district has a summer reading intervention program, and buys some PermaBound books for this program every year. I am fortunate th...

Since Wilson's books that are available in the US are so popular in my library, I picked upa number of them in Ireland. Warning: do not ...

This 1939 book is for highly motivated, very bright fantasy fans who have read everything else in your library and really, really want some ...

I have worked my way through a large variety of Jacqueline Wilson books, but since I read 8 of them while in a sleep deprived, travel-exhaus...

Where am I? The Dublin City Library! When I get back to the states, I will post pictures of the libraries that I visited across the country....

Yes, the shame of not having read anything lately is causing me to leave town. No, I'm running away from home. Going far away, taking on...

Read the third Elizabeth Cody Kimmel Suddenly Supernatural book, Unhappy Medium . I love Kimmel's work, especially Lily B. She has a kn...

It happens every summer. Nothing sounds good to read. I did finish another Clique book, Sealed with a Diss , but it was really, really awful...

Due to a new cataloging system, I had to do a complete inventory of my library. There are 200 books marked "lost", so I'll hav...

While doing inventory, I found Sean Piccoli's 1997 biography of the Grateful Dead, which had never been checked out. Since I knew nothin...

While Lisi Harrison's It's Not Easy Being Mean was easy to read, it wasn't very good. Claire has unrealistically become a sough...

We will not hold it against Jillian Kantor that she has an MFA, because The September Sisters was a good, if vaguely harrowing, read. Abby ...

After Carolyn Haywood's B is for Betsy books , the first books I remember reading are Encyclopedia Brown . My mother and I would sit in ...

Meg Cabot's tenth and FINAL Princess Diaries book is Forever Princess . Mia's world is in turmoil because her father has to run for ...

Choyce, Lesley. Skate Freak . Quinn's life is hard enough-- his mother is off learning a trade because his father has lost his job, scho...

The third Melissa De La Cruz Blue Bloods book, Revelations , was not a disappointment-- there's still danger, intrigue, and surprises wi...

Enjoyed the third and fourth book so much that I am half tempted to go in to work to retrieve the final book in the series. Gregor and the C...

Suzanne Collins has gotten a lot of buzz for her The Hunger Games , but her Gregor series is one that I finally bought after multiple stude...

This nonfiction title by Dilara Hafiz was rather interesting. Short, easy to read, but very informative, it covered a wide range of topics g...

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