Review for The Taylor TurboChaser
A girl in a wheelchair becomes a racer. Sadly, it sounded much more fun than I actually thought it was.
Monday’s First Sentence ~ Becoming Dinah
The nearest way for Dinah to get from New Bedford to the main road is down Tanners Lane, through the gate, over three fields, skirt the industrial estate where they make tyres, where the balck smoke stings her eyes and settles like soot on the trees, under the bridge and across the island.
Teaser Tuesday ~ Wayward Son
“You slept through breakfast,” Simon says, “but it was awful.”
“Snow was very excited about continental breakfast,” Baz says.
“It’s not what you think.” Simon frowns. It’s not French stuff. It’s just really sad pastries and bad tea. Oh and you missed Baz eating a squirrel.”
“I didn’t eat the squirrel.”
“Oh, sorry, you drank it, and threw its little squirrel body in the ditch.”
Hardcover Surprises ~ Wayward Son
Waiting on Wednesday ~ Wayward Son
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros ~ Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee
Here’s the thing with dreams – and I’m talking about the kind you have when you sleep, not the kind where you’re finally learning to surf when you’re fifty: they’re carefully tailored to the only audience who will ever see them, which is you. So I’m not big on telling people about my dreams for that reason.
That said, there’s this recurring dream I have. It comes around every couple of months or so, but I wish it were more often because it’s awesome, and when I wake up from it, I lie there for a few moments wishing I could reenter it. In this dream, I’m at a familiar place. Often it’s my grandma’s house.
Review for Road Trip with Max and His Mom
After the wonderful book about Max and his father and their weekends, we continue but this time it is Max and his mom and their weekend!
Review for Are We There Yet?
A delightful interactive picture book about a boy’s imagination during a very very very long road trip.
