Books I've Read

Anastasia Krupnik moves from her cherished Cambridge to the 'burbs.

She corresponds with a "Singles" advertiser, goes to a wedding and buys a sloop. Brings tear of laughter to my eyes!

Her aunt in California passes away, and she has trouble climbing the rope in gym class. Charming story.

She goes to modeling class and investigates becoming a book store owner. Wonderful stories.

Crippled Kira is lucky she has a valuable skill, else she would have been tossed on the trash heap, as it were, when her mother dies. Good story of a cruel world.

Village is changing, Forest is turning bad, Matty goes to fetch Kira. Moving, but seems incomplete.

Jonas is nearly Twelve, and he is going to find out assigned vocation. I like how the story builds, but I was disappointed by the ending.

An old woman tell about the events of a year when she was a young girl and the tragedy that ensued. Very good story. I like it when a charactor is a reader and the books she likes are mentioned, I become interested in reading those books too.

A parody of all those too-sweet orphan books. A splendidly useful glossary of words such as odious, obsequious, glutinous, and lugubrious is included, along with summaries of novels about "pitious but appealing orphans."