Anita Silvey's 500 Great Books for Teens Houghton Mifflin, 2006 M.T. Anderson's Burger Wuss (1999) 12-14 Joan Bauer's Rules of the Road (1998) 12-14 Joan Bauer's Squashed (1992) 12-14 * Ann Brashares' The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001) 12-14 Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods (1998) 14-18 *
Mary E. Lyons’ The Poison Place (1997) Aladdin, 1999 I've now read more than half of the book recommended in Shireen Dodson's Books for Girls to Grow On and have good reason to read on (as useful as I find the list itself, it's her discussions that have influenced my choices). Nonetheless, this
Heidi W. Durrow’s The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Algonquin Books - Workman Publishing, 2010 Initially I kept an eye on The Bellwether winners as an extension of my admiration of Barbara Kingsolver's writing. But after I read Hillary Jordan's novel, I kept an eye on the prize because Mudbound was one
Wells Tower "The Landlord" The New Yorker Fiction: 20 Under 40 September 13, 2010 issue Like many of the stories in this series, "The Landlord" is not a comfortable read. Its characters are struggling. Even the characters who are lucky. It's easy to spot them, in the context of this
Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy Tacy (1940) Illus. Lois Lenski Harper Collins, 1968 I first met Betsy, Tacy and Tib when I was nine or ten, but I didn't know them as well as I might have. I kept re-reading the third and fourth volumes of the series and never filled
