Briar Rose considers herself just a normal spinner girl, like so many others working in the cotton mills in her…
“Just because you did one right thing, did it mean you were good? “And if that was true, did doing…
K. B. Hoyle is the award-winning author of The Breeder Cycle and The Gateway Chronicles for teen readers. (You can…
(Review contains some spoilers.) Twelve-year-old Chris never expected much more than a little family bonding time when his uncle Jack…
(Note: This review contains some spoilers.) “The year I turned twelve,” Annabelle, the narrator of “Wolf Hollow,” tells us, “I…
Terrorism is not yet a daily occurrence, but this summer, it almost began to seem that way. On July 26,…
Terrorism is not yet a daily occurrence, but this summer, it almost began to seem that way. On July 26,…
I have a confession to make: I have never read Shusako Endo’s great 20th-century novel “Silence” (currently being made into…
Once in a while, a book comes along that reminds me of those “you are here” labels on hiking maps.…
In a lot of ways, Cam Smith is a model kid. He’s putting himself through prep school, working hard, and…
