Ms. Yingling Reads

Clements, Andrew. Troublemaker. Clay has spent his entire school career being mildly annoying to teachers, causing just enough trouble to ...

Technically, this is the last day of vacation, and I am hereby declaring that I have met all of my goals ! I wanted to run 100 miles, read 7...

Wolitzer, Meg. The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman . ARC recieved from the publisher. Duncan lives with his aunt and poor single mother; h...

Erskine, Kathryn. The Absolute Value of Mike . Poor Mike. He's got a math disability, but his autism spectrum professor father (never sa...

Wilson, Daniel H. A Boy and His Bot. On a school field trip to the place where his beloved grandfather mysteriously disappeared, Code Light...

Paulsen, Gary. Flat Broke . Sequel to Liar, Liar . Kevin, in the wake of his disastrous run of bad luck with lying, has been cut off from hi...

Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Bird in a Box. Three children in 1930s Elmira, New York find their paths intersecting. Hibernia, the daughter of the ...

Aronson , Marc and Patty Campbell. War Is...Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War. (2008) This collection of writing about va...

Rees, Douglas. The Juliet Spell. Release date 27 September 2011. E-ARC received from Netgalley .com Miranda is convinced that if she c...

I've never been a big Matt Damon fan, mainly because I'm not familiar with his work, but I am now. What a nice speech, quoted in a B...

It's been too hot to do anything but read, and yet nothing sounded good. My dog Sylvie has taken to lying on her side on the floor, look...

Kacvinksy, Katie . Awaken . Parents just make things difficult. In 2060, this is certainly the case for Madeleine. Because of violence and p...

White, Ruth . You'll Like It Here (Everybody Does) Meggie and David are all set to enjoy their summer vacation, hanging out with their m...

Wakeman, Nancy. Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Driven to Win (2000) Born in 1911, Babe Didrikson was a natural athlete who once won a track and fi...

Mandelski, Christina. The Sweetest Thing. Sheridan's father is a great chef who owns a restaurant in a small town, where Sheridan's...

Jones, Traci L . Silhouetted by the Blue. Serena has a lot going on-- she has been chosen for the lead role in the middle school production ...

Sorry. It's summer, and the whole turning-on-the-computer thing is tough for me! Gosselink, John. The Defense of Thaddeus Ledbetter. Tha...

Colasanti, Susane. Waiting for You. Marisa has the most enormous crush on Derek, but he is going out with someone else. She gets on with her...

Ferraiolo, Jack . Sidekicks . It's not easy to be Scott. While he has super strength and speed, he's being raised by Trent, aka Phan...

Krull, Kathleen. Sigmund Freud (2006) Discovered an odd thing while reading this: I didn't want to critique the book as much as I wante...