by Cindy | Mar 18, 2010 | Fiction
Rating: Little Bee, by Chris Cleave. Simon Schuster (2009), 288 pages. Little Bee is a fourteen-year-old girl from Nigeria who is living in England in a detention center for illegal immigrants. She shares the narration of this novel with a woman named...
by Donna | Nov 18, 2009 | Nonfiction, Tragedies/Massacres
Rating: The Children’s Blizzard, by David Laskin. HarperCollins (2004), 318 pages. From On the Banks of Plum Creek, by Laura Ingalls Wilder: “Then I’d better get the wood up before we go to town,” said Pa. “I don’t like the sound of that wind, and they tell...