Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau (book review)
Get your copy here! In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family’s subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she’s glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for [...]
Reading Recommendations from Jodie Wolfe
What was your favorite picture book as a kid? The only one I can remember is Harold and the Purple Crayon. Probably, because I also read it to my sons. What was the first “real” book (with chapters and without pictures) you remember reading? I think the Encyclopedia Brown Series [...]
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack (book review)
Get your copy here! All that bestselling author Eleanor Dash wants is to get through her book tour in Italy and kill off her main character, Connor Smith, in the next in her Vacation Mysteries series—is that too much to ask? Clearly, because when an attempt is made on the [...]
Raiders of the Lost Heart by Jo Segura (book review)
Get your copy here! Rival archaeologists must team up on a secret Aztec expedition, or it could leave their careers—and hearts—in ruins. Archaeologist Dr. Socorro “Corrie” Mejía has a bone to pick. Literally. It’s been Corrie’s life goal to lead an expedition deep into the Mexican jungle in search of [...]
Reading Recommendations with Rebecca Price Janney
What was your favorite picture book as a kid? The book was called something like Poems to Read to the Very Young, and I still remember some of the verses I found inside this glorious treasury. What was the first “real” book (with chapters and without pictures) you remember reading? [...]