Required Reading

From Booklist Gr. 6-9. When 14-year-old Rachel learns that Miri, her “vegetarian, socially inept little sister” and her divorced mother are witches, her reactions run the gamut from incredulity and annoyance that she isn’t similarly gifted to shrewdness as she plans how her sister’s abilities can be marshaled to solve a passel of problems. Can [...]

When Rand and I went to Toronto to visit Debbie, we spent some time wandering around a bookstore. I saw this book, picked it up and showed it to Debbie, and said “I really wish I’d had this idea first.” The premise is great–a cute, popular cheerleader from Beverly Hills, who just so happens to [...]

I wandered into a bookstore over the weekend, and this caught my attention. It’s a YA novel, dealing with the typical high school stuff–popularity and such. And it had an intriguing premise…suggesting that maybe the school’s popular crowd actually gained their popularity through forces not of this world. Unfortunately, the follow-through was disappointing. I didn’t [...]