Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Not Suitable for Family Viewing by Vicki Grant

It’s hard to be the overweight and socially awkward daughter of a media superstar.  Living in the shadow of her mother, Mimi, whose talk show, You, You and Mimi, is watched by hundreds of millions of people all over the world, seventeen-year old Robin Schwartz struggles with apathy and depression.  Burned by classmates who became [...]

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Pirate’s Passage by William Gilkerson

Twelve year-old Jim Hawkins lives with his widowed mother who struggles to run the Admiral Anson Inn, which has fallen on hard times that are made all the more difficult when the Moehners, a wealthy and influential local family, decide they want to buy up the inn and redevelop it as part of a new [...]