Month: April 2009

This is a non-fiction book about one of Baseball’s best players. Satchel Paige played during a time of racial segregation in our nation’s favorite pastime. Satchel overcame a difficult childhood to become famous...

Wow did March fly or what? We had a busy month, which included Holly moving into our mom’s basement with her family while they are between houses. Cari going to Disneyland with her family and did she tell you she forgot...

Maw Books Blog! My good friend Natasha Maw is doing a fantastic book giveaway of an autographed copy of Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson! I have already done two posts on Laurie’s new book, so you know three’s a...

In 1927, Anne Hobbs is an amazing teacher who, after teaching in the western frontier town of Forest Grove, Oregon (where I lived once upon a time), decides to teach in the Alaskan wilderness. The journey to the gold-mining...