Month: January 2017

• The Secrets of Flight, by Maggie Leffler

  

  Both characters tell lies and live with secrets. Mary has come to her position through a random remark made to one of the other tenants of the building where she moved after her doctor husband’s death. She was never an editor at a publishing house. But she was a flyer for the Women Air Service…

  Claire Hart-Palumbo

  January 6, 2017

  General

  assimilation, Congressional Medal of Honor, Jewish culture, Women Air Service Pilots, women flyers

• Gooney Bird and All Her Charms, by Lois Lowry

  

  This chapter book is part of an award-winning series. Gooney Bird is an eccentrically dressed second-grader with a Type A personality . She is surrounded by a number of outspoken prankster classmates and an infinitely patient teacher. Think Pippi Longstocking in Kindergarten Cop.

  Claire Hart-Palumbo

  January 4, 2017

  General

  anatomy, chapter book, fiction, Gooney Bird, Lois Lowry, Middy Thomas, novel

• YA Reads for January

  

  All three of these novels are engaging, well-written and have characters of a similar age, social group, who need to be loved or admired for themselves.

  Claire Hart-Palumbo

  January 2, 2017

  General

  Abby McDonald, E. Lockhart, fiction, Jay Asher, novel, peer-pressure, relationships, suicide