You might have noticed this new widget I have on my sidebar, courtesy of JacketFlap and the Children’s Book Council. It is announcing several nominees for the Children’s Choice Book Awards. In case you didn’t know, the Children’s Choice Book Award nominees have been announced in each category: Kindergarten to second grade, third to fourth [...]

Whenever I read books like The Giver, I am fascinated with the way the author has created this amazing future world that is so incredibly screwed up. I am a big fan of The Hunger Games series which I’ve wrote about a couple times on this blog. When reading Suzanne Collins’s series, I an so [...]

Hi all, Thank you so much for all the comments for Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. The winner is Pamela S. Stay tuned for later in the day when I update this post with an interview from a third grade teacher about how she uses technology in an eMINTS classroom. One of my favorite Maniac [...]

Yes, you read that right. . .you can win your very own hard cover copy of Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (the sequel to The Hunger Games) by leaving a comment below. I’m not even going to make you do anything special in your comment if you don’t want to–you can just say “pick me” [...]

Reviewed by Margo Dill, margodll@aol.com, www.margodill.com Photo by B. Sandman www.flickr.com *Young adult novel, fantasy set in the future *16-year-old girl as main character *Rating: I’m a fan of the Underland series by Suzanne Collins, so I picked up The Hunger Games, and I loved it even more than the Gregor books. The Hunger Games [...]

photo by qthrul www.flickr.com Yes, that is a picture of a waffle shaped like Texas that I found on Flickr this morning. It is fitting since I will be leaving for Texas this week, and I will be gone until Wednesday, July 15. Just wanted to let you know that I will be returning with [...]

Reviewed by Margo Dill, www.margodill.com, margodll@aol.com *Middle-grade novel, fantasy *12-year-old boy as main character *Rating: Suzanne Collins captivates the reader until the end of the series, although some readers won’t want Code of the Claw to be the last book! Short, short summary: Gregor has his final adventure in the Underland in book 5, Gregor [...]

Reviewed by Margo Dill, www.margodill.com, margodll@aol.com Middle-grade novel, contemporary fantasy 11-year-old boy as main character Rating: The first book of a wonderful series that keeps you wanting more! Short, short summary: Gregor and his two-year-old sister, Boots, fall into an air chute in their New York City apartment building’s laundry room. They fall into the [...]