While stranded in Illinois with only one book that I don’t much feel like reading, I snagged Philip Pullman’s Sally Lockhart books from my little sister’s room and read them in a few days. The adventures of an atypical Victorian heroine in a gritty version of London were extremely entertaining.
The Ruby in the Smoke
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The Sally Lockhart Series
July 1st, 2009 at 11:32 am » Comments (0)
Life as We Knew It
June 19th, 2009 at 6:34 pm » Comments (10)
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
This is what my YA book club is reading this month. Life as We Knew It is a harrowing and gripping story that details one family’s life after a meteor collides with the moon. It is written in diary format, as Miranda chronicles her daily life at [...]
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
May 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 pm » Comments (4)
Books about girls disguising themselves as men are fairly common in the YA fantasy genre, but Eon combines disguise, dragons, and a historic Asian setting to come up with an extremely readable novel. Eon is being raised as a boy by her master as one of the eleven candidates for the Rat Dragon. Dragons and [...]