Type: chapter bookAges: 8-12Author: C.R. Fulton Video games, ehh? Normally, that’s mentioned as a conversation point for negative reasons, but it was well played (oops, pun). Isaiah, the siblings’ [now 15-year-old] cousin who always travels with them to the various campgrounds across the…
Type: picture bookAges: 6 to adultAuthor: Ernest Lawrence ThayerIllustrator: Jim Hill Don’t peek at the ending! This poem has an infamous twist I hope you can experience without spoilers. Casey at the Bat is a favorite of many and has…
Type: chapter bookAges: 8-12Author: C.R. Fulton This was a great installment in the series. So many funny moments while a thread of mystery kept the “pages” (aka audio minutes) turning. All three of our main character kids (brother+sister and their cousin) attend this…
Type: chapter bookAges: 8-12Author: C.R. Fulton The Rawlings family is back at it in this next installment of their adventures. The father has been hired for a 3D printing project to replicate dinosaur bones, which in and of itself is a unique element!…
Type: picture bookAges: 4-8Author: Kate WatersPhotographer: Russ Kendall Really neat! If you live thousands of miles away from this outdoor living museum (as my family does), here’s the next best thing. Trained actors and actresses live their normal days–from milking…
Type: picture booksAges: 6-9Author: Gilchrist WaringIllustrator: Elmo Jones I wanted to like this book. The physical presentation was nice, and the illustrations immediately appealed to me. However, the writing was so disjointed and strange. That combined with at least one…
Type: chapter bookAges: 8+Author: Bradford SmithIllustrator: Robert Doremus This is one of those biographies that make you want to seek out more books on the subject! (Not to mention find other books the author wrote.) William Bradford was a remarkable…
Type: chapter bookAges: 8-12Author: C.R. Fulton Despite an unrealistic frequency of seeing rare animals in the wild (which made us all smile), we all enjoyed this audiobook. The intensity level was definitely up a notch from Book 1, but ages…
Type: chapter bookAges: 8-12Author: C.R. Fulton * Pretty clean, as far as these types of jokes go. 🙂 I always try to give some free passes to “first books” of series, since they frequently improve as the author finds his…
Type: chapter bookAges: 11+Author: Jennifer A. Nielsen “Worse. He banned the idea of Lithuania. We were all to become Russian. To speak like Russians, and especially, to think like Russians. Lithuania was to be erased from the map.” Not only…
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