The Dark is Rising sequence is the story of four children, the three Drew children – Barney, Jane, & Simon, and Will Stanton. Will is important because he is an Old One, a member of a race of beings who have magical powers and can move through time. The Drew children are important precisely because they are not magical beings. They are ordinary human children. The sequence is five books long: Over Sea, Under Stone, The Dark is Rising, Greenwitch, The Grey King, and Silver […]
Girl Power
The End of Everything tells the story of Lizzie, the disappearance of her best friend Evie, and the effect that disappearance has on the all the families involved. Megan Abbott writes thirteen year old Lizzie’s story in first person, rushing forward, all feeling, the emotional impact of the plot points more important than the how and why. “Where is Evie? Who took her?” take a back seat to how everyone feels, where those feelings come from and where they lead. Both The End of Everything […]
Answering The Call Could Be a Bit Risky
Think back to when you were 12. What were you doing? Meeting mysterious old (and I mean really, really, REALLY old) men who can stop time? Getting home to find an exact copy (or at least a close approximation) of yourself in your bedroom who is completely made from mud and who says he is a Golem and has been sent to take your place? How about battling a beautiful princess (at least when she’s not turning into a monster) whose mother is the Mother […]
Dear Killer
This is a story about a teenage girl who is one of the most elusive killers in London. A lot of the details make the story seem unbelievable, but it was okay if you suspend belief a bit. You can read my full review here.
Avalon
I really liked this new series by the author of The Nightmare Affair. It’s got a really likable main character, and themes similar to the show Firefly. You can read my review here.
Trains or Foster Homes?
The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported orphaned and homeless children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest. The orphan trains operated between 1853 and 1929, relocating about 250,000 orphaned, abandoned, or homeless children. Two charitable institutions, the Children’s Aid Society and later, the Catholic New York Foundling Hospital, endeavored to help these children. The two institutions developed a program that placed homeless, orphaned, and abandoned city children, who […]
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