Author: Holly Papa

A Newberry Honor book I read this book after first finding and reading its sequel, A Year Down Yonder. This is a great family read-aloud, or car-trip audio. Joey and his sister Mary Alice spend a week every summer visiting their...

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...

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...

Mary Jane was one of many ground-breaking books written by Dorothy Sterling. It chronicles, in novel form, the challenges that faced brave children who chose to be pioneers in the integration of southern schools.