Book Reviews / Need A Rec! / Reading Lists / Recommended Reads / Top Ten ListsAmerican historical / American Indians / cartoons / cats / cinderella / Contemporary / dogs / Firefighter / Historical / Historical fiction / Late Victorian / middle grade / novella / older heroine and hero7 Comments
Here I go down to the end (again) reading 2016 releases like mad for my Best of List. Looking back at my reading list I had a pretty good year. I have lots of B grades and many B+ but this year I had enough A grades that I decided ... more >
A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readschildren's fiction / childrens-books / dog / dysfunctional family / family relationships / middle grade / North-Carolina3 Comments
Eleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing on it as she takes the ... more >
B+ Reviewsadventure / Fantasy / middle grade5 Comments
The Copernicus Legacy is a quest to find the ancient Copernicus artifacts. Four kids named Darrel, Wade, Lily, and Becca are the ones trying to find the artifacts and obviously with a little help they will find them all. There are always some challenges and one of them is Galina ... more >
A ReviewsFantasy / friendship / middle grade5 Comments
Dear Kathleen: Thank you for sending this book to us. It arrived right around the time I finished reading The School for Good and Evil for my bookclub. I was really excited to discover that there was a sequel. My mom asked if I would review it for her blog and ... more >
A- Reviewsmiddle grade / mystery / scholastic4 Comments
Dear Ms. Frazier, After I admittedly adored your YA debut novel of last year, Everlasting, I have been looking forward to this book. Middle grade books have started to appeal to this reviewer, and it pleased me to see an author of historical novels taking them into the middle school ... more >
A Review Category / A Reviews / Book ReviewsDragon / Fairy-Tales / middle grade9 Comments
Dear Ms. Lin: I don’t review many non romance books here at Dear Author because it’s a) a romance oriented blog and b) I rarely read anything that isn’t romance except for the books I read to my daughter. For the most part, the books I’ve read to my five ... more >