I couldn’t find a cover image of To Dance at the Palais Royale, so I guess I’ll write about Son of the Mob today. I hope nobody terribly minds the influx of Gordan Korman that will inevitably happen here; when an author has written dozens of excellent titles it’s hard to pick just one…and hard [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Title Reviews’
April 9, 2007
Such A Pretty Girl
There, see? Something that’s not in the 9-12 Series Fiction category!
If the type of books you read says something about a person, then I guess there are a lot of really weird things to be said about me, because when it comes to teen fiction I can’t even look at the Clique or It Girl [...]
April 5, 2007
Half Moon Investigations
After Artemis I figured I’d check out Eoin Colfer’s other books too. I’ve been a sucker for Holmes (and Poirot, Kudo, et al) for ever, and so immediately hit upon this one. Schoolboy detectives? Oh yes. I was expecting something similar to Artemis, and Fletcher Moon isn’t, but his story was really something too.
Author: Eoin Colfer
Summary: Junior high student [...]
March 26, 2007
Beneath the Crown: The Princess In the Tower
I’ve had an affinity for Marie Antoinette since watching Rose of Versailles two years ago, and now I can’t stop myself from reading everything about her that I can lay hands on, including this very well-researched historical YA novel about daughter Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte. It was initially titled The Dark Tower and later added to the Beneath the Crown [...]
