Books I've Read

Entertaining writing, but I didn't care about the characters at all.

Bo's dad is commander of an Air Force Base. His new sixth-grade teacher teaches the class improv. His cousin Gari comes to live with them when her mother is sent to the middle east. Good story. How come whenever there is a kid who dad is in the military, dad is the commander of the base?

Stories by authors such as Simak, Yolen, Le Guin, and even Robert Louis Stevenson.

Toby and Cal visit "The Fattest Boy In The World" when he is stuck in their small Texas town.

Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin, a teen in Montgomery, Alabama, who wouldn't give up her bus seat to a white person.

Non-fiction about the resistance in Denmark during WWII against the German occupation.

A Project Gutenberg e-book, a group of Campfire Girls go on a camping trip. Mysterious things happen. Horses are ridden. Fires are put out. Radio stuff comes into play. VERY flowery language, but then it's a from 1923.

Guy goes on a sea cruise, is only survivor of the fire/sinking, then things get weird.

I rather like these stories of Raffles the gentleman thief. Of course I started with the last book first!

I believe this is book two of the series. I read the Project Gutenberg EBook edition. Good crime stories, lots of words to look up!

More Raffles stories, this is the first book.

A book within a book, or outside it, or something. Two books, with various murders, or not murders, intertwined. Very good, I though.

Pretty convulsed story for the likes of me, I had no idea how it was going to turn out!

First in the Alex Rider series, teen Alex is recruited to save the world, or at least the U.K., from free poison computers. Quite a lot of graphic violence, I thought, for a teen book. Get off my lawn, you kids!

A thirteen-year-old lad and his somewhat dim older brother run a rather unsuccessful detective agency. Somewhat bloody for middle school, I thought. But then, thousands are killed in The Lord Of The Rings.

Rich Horton edited this collection of sixteen stories. There is a story by Joe Haldeman, but my favorite was The Fate Of Mice by Susan Palwick.

Primrose lives in a small fishing village in Canada. Her parents are lost in a storm, but she never gives up believing they are still alive. Several interesting recipes. Cherry Pie Pork chops sounds the best!

A series of staggeringly brutal events recounted by a man from Afghanistan. I can't say I would care to see the movie, but I do feel like going kite flying.

Fictional story inspired by real people, an American quack doctor builds a radio antenna for his radio station in a poor Mexican border village. I liked it very much!

David (Blue Avenger!) grapples with questions of life and love. Really good. The "s" word comes up in a hilarious classroom discussion of vocabulary.