The story Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs was ok. Not my favorite, but very interesting. Not sure if my struggling readers would enjoy it. It might have helped if I read the first book first.The story is about a boy name Kevin who enjoys writing poetry, but also plays baseball. He is trying to fig...
The first notes I wrote down while reading Stoner and Spaz were “out of touch - old?” When I finished the book, I searched author Ron Koertge’s biography - yeah, turns out he’s in his seventies. So when he wrote Stoner and Spaz in 2002, he was at least 60. It shows.The title sums it up - ther...
So what does a young lad do if his mother decides to become a stripper? That’s the question at the heart of the YA title “When the Kissing Never Stops” and it’s made even harder for the teenage hero, Walker, because he is falling in love for the first time. In fact, hormones are zinging all over ...
Sixteen-year-old Ted O’Connor’s parents just died in a fiery car crash, and now he’s stuck with a set of semi-psycho foster parents, two foster brothers — Astin, the cocky gearhead, and C.W., the sometimes gangsta — and an inner-city high school full of delinquents. He’s having pretty much the wo...
DROPS ME OFF, it’s about ten. Grandma’s car is gone. Colleen isn’t outside, but she’s not in her bedroom or the bathroom or any other room. I’m just about to call her cell when she bursts through the front door. “Big news!” she says. “Huge news. I found your mother!” All I can do is stare. “And I...