“Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.” – Charles R. Swindoll Sometimes a good friend is hard to find, but these books remind us that the friend we are looking for can often be found in the most unlikely of places. For the youngest readers: A Splendid Friend, Indeed by Suzanne Bloom… Read more »
March 2014
Grandfather Gandhi
Grandfather Gandhi by Arun Gandhi with Bethany Hegedus, illustrated by Evan Turk (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2014) is Arun’s story about living on the Sevagram with his grandfather, the Mahatma Gandhi. The Sevagram in India is dirty and dusty. Young Arun doesn’t like eating mushy, boiled pumpkin. He doesn’t speak Gujarati well, and he… Read more »
FRIENDSHIP BOOKS, NOT FOR THE BIRDS!
Two totally different and unusual books about friendship, but both so fun. For the younger reader/ listener: THOSE DARN SQUIRRELS and the CAT NEXT DOOR by Adam Rubin, illustrated by Daniel Salmieri How to make a friend? Little Old Lady Hu with her very opinionated cat, Muffins, moves in next door to very grumpy Old… Read more »
Accepting your friends for who they are
Odd Weird & Little, by Patrick Jennings (Egmont, 2014) Woodrow has always born the brunt of the bullying from Garret and Hubcap, two boys in his fourth grade class. Until the day that Toulouse arrives, that is. Toulouse is little. Very little. He wears suits with vests and big glasses over his huge round eyes…. Read more »
A Conversation with Author Tara Altebrando
Tara Altebrando was kind enough to follow-up on an earlier ReaderKidZ post about her newest book, The Battle of Darcy Lane, by joining us today to answer a few questions. The Battle of Darcy Lane is your Middle Grade debut, but you are well versed in writing YA fiction. Did you face any challenges while… Read more »
The Battle of Darcy Lane by Tara Altebrando
In The Battle of Darcy Lane, author Tara Altebrando portrays the complicated nuances of adolescent relationships in a creative, authentic, competitively believable way. In this entertaining novel, Altebrando explores how loyalty between friends can shift at the roll of one’s eyes. She takes a close look at the fragile nature of relationship while considering others… Read more »
March – Friendship Month!
Accord, consideration, harmony, and companionship are synonymous with the word ‘friendship’. However, there are times when the relationship between two “friends” is anything but harmonious, moments when companionship seems more like a competitive survival of the fittest. This month the ReaderKidZ are going to explore the meaning of friendship as depicted in what we feel… Read more »
