Tag: #macmillan
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Top 5 Autobiographies
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King I’ll confess something. I didnt watch Mister Roger’s Neighborhood. And the little I did watch, I found slow and boring so I didn’t really know or care about his life until I was an adult and my mom made me watch the…
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Favorite Graphic Novels
Excluding Archie. That will be its own post. Fiction Nathan Hale’s Hazerdous Tales by Nathan Hale Modern day Hale (same name, no relation) uses the famous Revolutionary spy, Nathan Hale (of “My one regret is that I have one life to give” fame) to narrate adventures and incidents throughout history. This abundence of knowledge from…
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Fairytale Books
Whether it be fractured or an innovative retelling, here are some fairytale books for kids and young adults. Kids Land of Stories by Chris Colfer This Glee star is definately multi-talanted. Using his own literary love for fairytales, he has created the Land of Stories. A land where every fairytale has happened once, but rather…
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2000s Nostalgia
Aka what I like to think is the golden era of kids books. Or at least from my rose tinted glasses. Secrets of Droon by Tony Abbot This series took kids to the magical and dangerous world of Droon that is so unlike other fantasy series It was all so unique that I don’t think…
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Summer ReReads P5
Stupid Cupid trilogy by Rhonda Stapleton What do you did when you are a enter a matchmaking agency that makes you to a real life Cupid. A Cupid. There is more than one after all. Felicity may mess up sometimes in her matchmaking schemes (especially her choice to matchmake her parents. The aftermath scars her…
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Summer ReReads P1
I don’t know about anyone else but I am the kind of person who likes to reread and rewatch my favorite things once a year. That being during the summer because I have a lot of time to relax and enjoy. Why I chose these specifically, I don’t know really. Nostalgia probably. Also that I…
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Historical Fiction Books for Kids
American Girls and American Girl: History Mystery, American Girl: Girls from Other Lands Series
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Women’s History Month Books P2
Bad Girls by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple This fun book gives a brief intro to the infamous bad girls of history from biblical figures such as Delilah and Jezebel to murderers like Lizzie Borden and Elisabeth Bálfory to possible innocents such as Tituba from the Salem Witch Trials. At the end of…