A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park is a non-fiction book about a young girl named Nya who walks eight hours every day to get water for her family in 2008, and about a boy named Salva who walks away from his family and the only home he has ever known to stay safe from the war in 1985. In Afric...
This is a Christmas book, but the Christ child is only featured as a reference at the end of the book. This story is actually about a boy learning to collect myrrh by gathering resin from trees. I love the history and culture and people in the book, the simple tale and how it teaches so much with...
tI’m going to start off by saying Archer’s Quest by Linda Sue Park was one peculiar adventure. The thought that its tale lasted only a day is quite stunning! There were only four major settings, and two main characters which was awesome for me because some books just have too much to keep track o...
Eyes tap-dance as Linda Sue Park explains the spur-of-the-moment decision to give her Newbery medal for A Single Shard to her dad at the ALA awards ceremony in 2002. The auditorium went from noisy to dead silent as I walked to the edge of the stage to hand Dad the medal. "I'm thinking to myself,...
Like Seesaw Girl, this book deals with choices in life. Some choices we can choose: the choice of occupation, the choice of attitude, the choice of following traditions. Some choices we cannot choose: choice of being a boy or girl, the choice of siblings, or the choice of birth order. Young-sup i...
This rousing novel is a perfect mash-up of real historical events and fiction. I started reading When My Name Was Keoko solely because I had to. However, I finished it because I genuinely wanted to. I thoroughly enjoyed this book from start to end and would not mind reading it again sometime in t...