Posts by Stacie
What’s Saving My Life? February 2024 Edition
It’s half-way through winter and time to celebrate all the little things saving my life right now.
Read MoreBook Review: The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai
The Kamogawa Food Detectives is a Japanese novel in translation which connects customers to a long-lost meal that brings up wonderful memories.
Read MoreChildren’s Book Review: How Do You Spell Unfair? by Carole Boston Weatherford
MacNolia Cox earned her way to the National Spelling Bee but was met with unfair treatment and racism in 1936.
Read MoreChildren’s Book Review: Peekaboo Who? by Elena Selena
Peekaboo is every baby and toddler’s favorite game and now they can play it within the pages of a book, revealing an adorable animal each time.
Read MoreChildren’s Book Review: Orion and the Dark by Emma Yarlett
Orion is scared of the dark, but when Dark makes a visit, he sees nighttime in a whole new light. The movie is now available on Netflix.
Read MoreBooks Added to My Shelves in January 2024
Sharing the books added to my shelves in January 2024 including adult and children’s fiction and nonfiction.
Read MoreChildren’s Book Review: The Black Hole Debacle by Keri Claiborne Boyle
In The Black Hole Debacle, Jordie finds a Black Hole in her desk at school and soon, everything is disappearing?.Can she return it to a wide open space before it gobbles up everything in sight, including her?
Read MoreBook Review: The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri
After a fire devastates an entire Greek village, a family must find a way back to each other after trauma and loss.
Read MoreChildren’s Book Review: The Boo-Boos of Bluebell Elementary by Chelsea Lin Wallace
The Boo-Boos of Bluebell Elementary shares a day-in-the-life of school nurse, Miss Peatree. A loose tooth to a hungry stomach and more are treated in her office.
Read MoreChildren’s Book Review: The Bone Wars by Jane Kurtz
The Bone Wars were started after two friends in the 1800s started competing over the dinosaur fossils they were researching.
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