This is the second book I have read by Carol Lynch Williams, and it really felt like they had the kind of same themes. The other book was Waiting. In both books, someone dies and the mother is left distraught. In this one, the mother struggles with her demons, leaving her daughter to be the stron...
This is a good book for students to read if they are having a hard time making friends. In this story Beauty is having a hard time making friends because she is shy and cares a lot about what people think about her. That is until she meets a girl named Alane. Alane has a disease called Progeria. ...
This novel, with a 12 year old narrator, is obviously aimed at middle school readers or late elementary readers, since it deals with the preoccupations of that age group; however, teachers should approach it with care because it does treat a pre-teen’s horror at her the thought of her parents hav...