Middle-Grade Book Review: Hero for the Hungry by Peggy Thomas
Norman Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize after being called the Hero for the Hungry. His Iowa work-ethic and knowledge of farming helped many struggling with hunger in their country.
Read More Summer Read-to-Learn: Idea Makers by Lowey Bundy Sichol
Idea Makers features biographies of women entrepreneurs share their struggles, passions, and perseverance to creating products that many people use every day. Written for middle-grade readers.
Read More Books that Came My Way in June 2022
My monthly round up of books that came my way in the last month including adult and children's fiction and nonfiction.
Read More Summer Read-to-Learn: So Much More to Helen! by Meeg Pincus
All summer I’ll be sharing books for kids of all ages on topics that will interest them or offer them a new topic to learn about. Most of the time these will be nonfiction books, but sometimes we can learn how to be better people or learn empathy from fictional stories too. So, I hope…
Read More Summer Read-to-Learn: Jackie and the Mona Lisa by Deborah Rovin Murphy
Jackie Kennedy was a supporter of the arts and brought her passion to the White House and then encouraged Americans to love the arts.
Read More Children’s Book Review: Breaking Through the Clouds by Sandra Nickel
Joanne Simpson broke through the clouds and the glass ceiling to prove that clouds can help predict various weather patterns.
Read More Books that Came My Way in January 2022
Books that came my way in January 2022 including adult fiction, nonfiction, and historical fiction as well as children's books.
Read More Children’s Book Review: Who is a Scientist? by Laura Gehl
There are all different types of scientists and they don't just sit in a lab behind a microscope but in their free time, they like to surf and bake and eat tacos.
Read More Book Review: The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
The detailed account of Elizabeth Packard being committed to an asylum in 1860 by her husband for being intelligent and outspoken. Without her perseverance and resilience, women today would live much different lives.
Read More Children’s Book Week 2021: June Almeida, Virus Detective by Suzanne Slade
A biography picture book about June Almeida, the researcher who connected the blobs and realized it was a new virus, named coronavirus.
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