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Blogging From A to Z Challenge – Adoption
It’s the first official day of the Blogging From A to Z Challenge and I’ve got a few other areas of diversity I want to focus on. Here’s a quick peek at just a few books with an adoption theme. The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher by Dana Alison Levy…
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#MGBookmas Day 12: A Book With Love As a Theme
I’m going to be participating in this year’s #MGBookmas list – look for titles for the next 12 days that fit each of these fun categories! You can participate to on Instagram, Twitter or your own blog! Follow #MGBookmas for everyone’s choices.
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#MGBookmas Day 2: Favorite Book Set During the Winter
I’m going to be participating in this year’s #MGBookmas list – look for titles for the next 12 days that fit each of these fun categories! You can participate to on Instagram, Twitter or your own blog! Follow #MGBookmas for everyone’s choices.
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"What does it mean to be a family?"
Synopsis: Grace has had a rough few months – she misses the Homecoming Dance because she gives birth to her daughter the same night and puts her up for adoption, finds out that although she grew up an only child is actually the middle child with an older brother in foster…
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Book Review: The Ghosts of Greenglass House
Synopsis: Milo is hoping for a quiet holiday vacation, especially after last year when a number of unwanted guests showed up at his parent’s inn, but that wish disappears into the cold when a number of intentional (yet unexpected) and unintentional guests appear just before Christmas. Will Milo be able to…
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20 Titles for National Foster Care Month
I’m always looking for ways to create book lists that I think are needed by people around the world, so when I saw that May is National Foster Care Month, I knew it would be a great time to gather some titles that show kids in foster care. I tried…
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Book Review: Just Like Me
Review Ever since a heritage report in school, Julia has had a lot of questions and thoughts swirling around her brain about her adoption, her birth mother, and trying to figure out exactly who she is. Her mom decides to send her to summer camp with her Avery and Becca,…
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Book Review: Soar
Jeremiah has been dealt a difficult hand from the get-go, abandoned as a baby and later diagnosed with a heart condition requiring a heart transplant at the age of 11. And that’s where his dreams of playing baseball are put on hold. Jeremiah can’t play baseball, he can’t even run…
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Book Review: "Greenglass House"
Let me start off by saying I kept putting this book off… for months. I had no idea what it was about, but for whatever reason, I wouldn’t crack the spine. And I’m so sorry I didn’t read it for so long! It’s a great mystery with unexpected surprises, quirky…
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Found
I finally got around to reading the first book in The Missing series – Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix. I definitely need to read the second one – I couldn’t put it down! Granted, I really enjoy Haddix’s writing. Her books are fast-paced with interesting plot lines and characters. In…
