Monsier Marceau by Leda Schubert, illustrated by Gerard DuBois, $17.99. Growing up, I used to anticipate a glimpse of the mime Marcel Marceau on Sunday nights’ Ed Sullivan Show. He would step into the spotlight of a…
Author: annangel
A grandparent comes to live and provides a special glimpse into multi-generational love even as it opens new horizons to the author
This week readers get a Q & A between Ann Angel and writer Sheri Sinykin’s transformation from middle grade novelist to picture book author followed by guest writer Donna Pierquet’s heartfelt review of the picture book Zayde Comes to Live. Sheri admits this…
The path we might take to grow or hide
The Opposite of Hallelujah by Anna Jarzab (Delacrote Books for Young Readers) $16.99 Growing up Catholic and being named after a nun, I recall myself as a kid scared to death I was also expected to grow up and…
Upon unraveling the theory of accidents and fate….
Today’s post was written by guest blogger Donna Pierquet, a graduate of the Mount Mary College Writing master of arts in writing program: The Theory of Everything by J.J. Johnson (Peachtree Publishers) $16.95 The world of a teenage girl…
Turning despair into strength
Tap Out by Eric Devine (Running Press Kids) $9.95 Tap Out proves to be a gripping and dark novel about a teenaged boy who only knows grinding despair but discovers a ray of hope within the walls of a local gym. As the novel unfolds, we’re provided…
A tribute to the courage of children who face cancer
Bluish by Virginia Hamilton {Blue Sky Press) $5.99 and now available as an e-book. We know someone who has survived cancer and we probably know at least one person who has died of the disease. The power of this illness…
What can we learn about past lives?
Transcendence (Walker Books) by C.J. Omololu, $16.99 Spiritual, religious and life beliefs can bring people close or drive a wedge between friends and family. But exploring possibilities and beliefs outside our own immediate cultural, religious and life experiences can also…
The Forsaken speaks to reluctant heroes
The Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) $16.99 Dystopian novels often allow readers inside the scariest of ideas. They encourage readers to think about war and our darkest fears, both internal and…
What happens when body image and emotions collide?
The Stone Girl (Knopf Books for Young Readers) by Alyssa B Sheinmel, $16.99 Sethie looks at her world as though she’s looking through a microscopic, always questioning or hypothesizing and analyzing out how she might connect. Inside this world…
Mr. Death’s Blue-eyed Girls leaves readers questioning guilt and innocence
Mr. Death’s Blue-eyed Girls by Mary Downing Hahn (Clarion Books) 16.99 If you have read Mary Downing Hahn’s earlier ghost stories especially Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story, you know what I’m saying when I say her books always…