We recently moved to a new city, and I always like to head the our local library as soon as possible to sign up for a new library card.  It...

oh yes, I'm a day late with this news, but for anyone who missed it, The American Library Association has announced their award winners ...

WE're reading favorite books from our youth at January's meeting and everyone is welcome to bring along other old favorites to chat ...

For our December meeting, we decided to keep simple and just read one book, Richard Peck's A Season of Gifts. You can find a free print...

We focused on Novels in Verse at our November meeting, and I was happy to hear how many members loved the books, even when they thought they...

I decided to make one book mandatory for discussion and I recommend reading the rest if you have time. The book I most wanted to discuss wa...

For September Book Club picks, Sharon decided to choose one book from each of the five categories from the Beehive Nominees. (Optional: F...

Here's the reading list from Whitney and Scott: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (I LOVED the audio vers...

Am I the last one to hear of the blog Terrible Yellow Eyes ?  Illustrator Cory Godbey says Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak has ...

Before you read this post, be warned that no matter how many times I change it, Blogger keeps doing crazy things to the text size and spacin...

Natasha Maw hosted our meeting in May to discuss historical fiction.  This year we focused on WWII and Natasha selected books to cover diff...

I remember being enchanted by the Land of Chewandswallow when I was little.  I'm a little sad the movie preview looks so different than ...

We had so much fun reading fairy tales in April.  We didn't have a lot of time to read so we kept the list short and sweet and asked eac...

For our meeting in March we read the newest Newbery and Caldecott award winners.  Here's the reading list: 2009 Newbery Medal Winner The...

In February we discussed Cybils award finalists  To narrow things down (because as much as we'd like too, we couldn't discuss ALL t...

Oh Underneath, people have such nice things to say about you, and yet, I can't seem to finish you!  On first attempt I only lasted a few...

Jarrett Krosoczka, the author/illustrator of awesome books like Punk Farm, recently put together a video for a SCBWI presentation in NY.  If...

Taylor Markam was ditched at a gas station at the age of eleven.  Hannah, the woman who found her was a volunteer at Jellicoe School and t...

This morning the American Library Association announced the award winners for 2009.  You can see the whole list here (and I highly recommend...

Twilight has been deemed the Vampire book for people who don't like Vampire books, and Stephenie Meyer said that The Host was a scienc...

Hi, I'm Stephanie Ford, I'm an adult, and I'm addicted to Sammy Keyes mysteries.  There, I said it.   There are so many middle...

For those of you who don't know, the official title of my MA is a Master of Arts in Language, Literacy, and Culture with an emphasis in ...

At least once a year our book club reads current books being turned into movies.  Here are the picks for this month: The Tale of Despereaux ...