BEWARE of spoilers. One man's bookflap summary is another man's spoiler.I'm a native Ohioan, so a story involving Ohio and the historical Underground Railroad was right up my alley. Dies Drear is the name of a white abolitionist.Interesting to read a story structured from the viewpoint of a 20th-...
The Mystery of Dies Drear House is about a boy named Thomas who is in a kind of feud with his next door neighbors. Both families are trying to find the buried treasure that is some where on their land. Thomas's main external conflict is that he has to meet secretly with his best friend from the r...
Back in 1997 I saw the film, "Junior's Groove," based on Virginia Hamilton's book, "The Planet of Junior Brown." I loved the movie. Loved it, loved it, loved it. It remains one of my all time favorite movies. When I saw the trailer for it I saw that it was about this kid who was a piano prodi...
This Newbery Award-winning book is not for everyone. Action, intense drama and humor all are absent from this slow-moving tale in which reality, daydreams, internal-dialogs and seemingly telepathic communication add up to a thought-provoking novel that probes the fear-powered mythologies people c...