My rating: 5/5 stars What would it be like if we could eliminate confusion, chaos, unpredictability, hunger, and even enormous snowstorms? It would be like the world in Lois Lowry’s amazing book The Giver. I like to skip around in my Newbery list every so often because sometimes I get bogged down with the older…
Category Archives: My Newbery project
Back in the Newbery habit
Once upon a time, I thought I had no time for blogging. Seemed to me that they were for people who were either promoting a business, writing a book, or stay-at-home moms with nothing else to do. Then I started reading blogs. I was intrigued. I got a bit of an itch to try one…
The View from Saturday (1997)
My rating: 5/5 stars At long last, I return with a review of one of my favorite books out of all of the Newbery medalists and in general. E.L. Konigsburg has a knack for writing characters with depth and humor, characters you wish you knew in real life, or maybe – if you’re lucky –…
Sounder (1970)
My rating 3/5 stars. I got Sounder from the library, and put off reading it. I could tell just from the dust jacket that it was bound to be a Dead Dog Book, and I tend to avoid those. I was right, but it was far more and far less than that. First of all,…
The Graveyard Book (2009)
My rating: 4.5/5 stars I must confess to not being a huge Neil Gaimon fan. The first time I read Coraline, I found it a little weird and creepy. I reread it as a literature circle book with my students, and found it slightly more enjoyable, but it does have the distinction of being one…
