Finally I am done with the Mark Twain nominees. This was an interesting change from the other books. The main character is Tirio, who is fro...

As I'm waiting on the last book on my Mark Twain list to either show up in the library, where I'm 2nd on the list, or else I ordered...

This was a pretty good book about girls and their friendships. I have to admit at first the whole, Lucky Stars, being capitalized and said c...

This was a major tear jerker. And to think the fact that it was a sports themed book made me not want to read it. And again, as I commented ...

Peg Kehret's books seem to always be on the Mark Twain list like every year, kind of like Mary Downing Hahn's books do. While they...

This is also part of what I assume to be a newer series, this one called Suddenly Supernatural. My assumption is that the series will follow...

This is one in a sports series called Mike Lupica's Comeback Kids. I read "The Big Field" by Mike Lupica for the Truman list j...

This is part of the Hoofbeats series, which I think we had one of as a possibility for last year's Mark Twain, but didn't make it. I...

Long title on this book. Cute book. I was wondering why in the world there would be two "horse" stories on the list. Yeah, I kn...

As I said in my last blog, I'm not a huge fan of books from the animal point of view. But all in all, I overcame that and enjoyed this ...

Another book about a little girl who wants to be a writer. I wonder if this was just a theme by the people on the committee, or if there we...

Reading Little House on the Prairie books takes me back to younger days. Not as young as you might think though. I didn't read the books...

Cute little book. Miri is the main character, and she is the middle child between twin boys and twin girls. And she has always felt a litt...

Okay story, a girl who recently watched her mother freeze to death, and is now afraid to leave her house, has a dog come up to her cabin doo...

Cute, short book. I love the main characters' names, Xena and Xander. I always thought if I ever had a boy, if he wasn't a "J...

I really enjoyed this one. The main character is Amanda MacLeish, and her school does thematic units where all the classes are doing someth...

The cover of this book is so not interesting to me. And the premise, and it didn't start out very good either. However, I had read a boo...

This was a pretty good book. Of course it's about a school that is very prestigious, and all the students are nice, smart, and very har...

This is in a series of children's books called I Witness. I looked on the Internet, and other than the book I read last year by Avi cal...

This was a sweet, endearing book. The main characters lives all came together at a motel by chance. Aggie, an old lady who owns the motel,...