Ms. Yingling Reads

Lee, Ingrid. Cat Found . Feral cats are roaming around Billy's town and making everyone angry, expecially Billy's father, who seems ...

Martino, Alfred C. Perfected by Girls. Melinda is the only girl on her high school wrestling team. Her older brother is a captain, the coac...

There are maybe four books left that were nominated that I can't find a copy of. Eric Walters' End of Days , Jo Ann Yhard's Lost...

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday is the brain child of Shannon Whitney Messenger. Papademetriou, Lisa . Ice Dreams . Rosa is having a hard time...

The Nonfiction Monday Round-up is at A Curious Thing this week. Kent, Deborah. The Vietnam War: From DaNang to Saigon This is part of the E...

I'm a big fan of the Orca Sports books, so I was very glad to get a chance to see these Orca Young Reader books, sent by the publisher....

Frederick, Heather Vogel. Home for the Holidays . In this fifth installment of the Mother-Daughter Book Club series, the girls prepare for ...

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley . William's Midsummer Dreams . Nominated for the Cybils by Elizabeth. In 1938, William is glad to be living wit...

Oketani, Shogo. J-Boys: Kazuo's World, Tokyo, 1965 Translated from the Japanese by Avery Fisher Udagawa. Nominated for the Cybils, copy ...

All nominated for the Cybils, review copies all from Scholastic Canada because for some reason they are not available in the US through most...

Rumor has it that the new state standards for language arts will require that 60% of the literature children read be nonfiction. This is a b...

Whitesides , Tyler. Janitors . After an encounter with what he thinks is soap, Spencer starts seeing creepy creatures roaming the halls of...

Sadly, I'm not legally allowed to give away actual guys (although I have some annoying ones if anyone is interested), but I have three a...

Bunting, Eve. The Pirate Captain's Daughter. Nominated for the Cybils by Lois Hume , copy provided by Sleeping Bear Press Catherine know...

Rocklin , Joanne. One Day and One Amazing Morning On Orange Street. Nominated for the Cybils by Katie Ahearn Orange Street was so named bec...

Hop over to the Chronicle Books Web Site to check out their Happy Haulidays contest. The Charity I would choose would be the Blendon Middle...