by Jennifer Hallmark | Sep 1, 2023 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Hello, Friday Fiction Friends! I hope this Friday finds you enjoying life and ready for fall. I’m sure ready for cooler weather. Today’s wonderful read is Kingdom Lost by Dawn Shipman, a YA medieval fantasy. It’s the first book in the Lost Stones of...
by K.A. Ramstad | Aug 25, 2023 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Do you know of a game that’s a hybrid of “The Floor is Lava” and a pirate adventure? There is in Amy Shook’s make-believe story Lavanauts: Hot Lava Pirates and Sharks. Young people from kindergarten to second grade will enjoy reading about this...
by Cammi Woodall | Aug 18, 2023 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
I struggled to find an appropriate book for this review. After a fall and injury this past March, I have not read an entire book. Five months! My attention span has been nil, so I have concentrated on fan fiction stories and YouTube videos. Hopefully, as summer...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Aug 11, 2023 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
I can’t wait to tell you about J. J. Fischer’s newest book, just released in May! If you’re a fan of Pirates of the Caribbean, Laura Frantz, or C. S. Lewis (or all three), The Soul Mark is right up your alley with its Colonial-era swashbuckling, sweet (and...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Aug 4, 2023 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Hello, Friday Fiction Fans! Today’s selection is the 1972 Newberry Medal winner, awarded to the most distinguished contribution to literature for children published in the United States. This middle-grade classic, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH was written by...
by Cammi Woodall | Jul 21, 2023 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
It is crazy/scary/unnerving how quickly an accident can happen. One minute I am walking my sister’s dog in the park, the next I am on the ground with a dislocated shoulder socket and an oblique break of my upper humerus. One surgery, one shoulder plate, several pins...