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Cindy: If Annie Oakley had to solve her sister’s mysterious disappearance…you’d have One Came Home (Random/Knopf 2013) and one of the best books I’ve read so far this year. 13-year-old Georgia is a whiz with a rifle and is helpful in her family’s general store in Placid, Wisconsin. The book opens with this intriguing passage: [...]

Lynn:  Most mystery fans love sequels.  We fall in love with a character and can’t wait to read along as he or she takes on a new case.  I’m in that camp and I love nothing more than another installment of my favorite sleuth.  So for our continuing celebration of Mystery Month, here are two [...]

Lynn:  I have to start this post with a confession.  I have had copies of Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate series on my to-read shelf of adult books for a long time but never found the time to squeeze them in.  So I was really excited to see Carriger’s teen debut and it was the first book [...]

Lynn:  It’s March and we bloggers have mostly leaped into the new publishing year.   I’m still playing catch-up though and I’m so glad I didn’t miss Shadow on the Mountain (Abrams/Amulet 2012).  Preus writes about a part of WWII history that most of us know little about and bases her book on the “true [...]

Lynn:  It was one of those shining moments in history when “the first Negro enlisted man accepted for the airborne forces…and the first officer” met.  They were the start of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, the first black paratroopers in our nation’s history created in the midst of the dark days of WWII.  Tanya Stone [...]

Lynn:  Rappaport’s Introduction to Beyond Courage:  The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust (Candlewick 2012) echoes what so many of us, Jewish or not, have thought or felt. “Even as a Jew growing up in a Jewish household I had only ever heard that “Jews went like lambs to the slaughter during the [...]

Lynn:  I’ve been seeing great reviews and buzz about one of my favorite author’s new books for months and months but copies were elusive out here in Michigan.  Sometimes when I hear a lot of buzz about a book I’m nervous about being disappointed when I finally get to read it but that was definitely [...]

Lynn:  Picture this:  me, one chapter into Planesrunner (Prometheus/Pyr 2011) leaping around the room in sheer joy at finding a terrific science fiction book with real science for teens.  Huzzah!!!  I was positively giddy with the discovery that adult author McDonald both respected his teen audience and wrote REAL science fiction for them in his [...]

Lynn:  I want to caution readers that if you are, as I am, susceptible to robot love you might want to use care with The Might Mars Rovers:  The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity (Houghton 2012).  Yes, this latest volume in the stellar Scientists in Field series does what it always does with such [...]

Lynn:  It isn’t basketball season as I write this but basketball fans won’t care AND it has taken me all this time to finally get my hands on The Final Four (Penguin/Viking 2012).  It was worth the wait though and this is a book that will never stay long on your shelves once the sports [...]