Author: Holly Papa

This is my Town by Mercer Mayer

I love ‘I can Read’ books. They are just the right level to really share a reading experience with beginning readers. There are plenty of beginning words like the, this that, him, I, go, they, etc. that boost new...

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The Host by Stephenie Meyer

I’d like to just say I loved this book, ‘nuf said. But that wouldn’t really make this review very good. So, I loved this book more than Twilight. Please don’t hate me. I thought it was easier for me to...

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Pretties by Scott Westerfeld

The sequel to Uglies, also a NYT bestseller. I had a harder time getting into this book because of the way Pretties talk. I had no idea that a surgery could change the way that people talk so easily. I felt like I was in some...

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The Whirlwind by Carol Matas

I read this book in a whirlwind created by multiple other books I was/am reading at the same time. It was out on the counter one day and my oldest passed by, glanced down and did a double take. “Mom, what’s this book...

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