Entries from July 2007

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

I am a Taxi by Deborah Ellis

I am a Taxi is the story of Diego Juárez, a thirteen-year old boy who lives with his mother and young sister in the women’s prison of San Sebastián. He struggles to support his family by running errands for inmates housed in both the women’s prison and the men’s prison next to it. [...]

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Secret of the Dripping Fang, Book Four, Fall of the House of Mandible by Dan Greenburg

Cheyenne Shluffmuffin thinks her brother Wally is too pessimistic. She thinks he ought to focus on what is good in their lives. Wally thinks Cheyenne’s crazy. The two kids are on the run from giant ants bent on using them to take over the world, and their dad, who drowned in a [...]

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

The Spoon in the Bathroom Wall by Tony Johnston

Martha Snapdragon has problems. She and her father, Luther, live in the hot and noisy boiler room of the Horace E. Bloggins, the school she attends and where her father is caretaker, and, because her father’s job pays very little, they never quite have enough to eat.
Although Martha works hard at her lessons, and [...]

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

The Maples on the Move! by Martha Davis and Molly Whittington

Most of us have dreamed about writing and publishing our own book but my friends Martha and Molly have done so! Following her purchase of a magnificent Victorian doll’s house about a year ago, Martha Davis conceived and wrote The Maples on the Move!, a novella about the Maples whose house becomes too small [...]