Savage Readers

Monday, March 9, 2015

Upcoming reading

This month, we are reading The School For Good and Evil by Soman Chainani. Joanna is hosting at Christina's house. See you there!

Sara chose The Giver by Lois Lowry for April's discussion and Danelle picked The Little Red Guard by Wenguang Huang for May.

Monday, February 23, 2015

Sorry

Sorry, cute Savage Readers! I posted my blog on here by mistake, even though I haven't been with your for like 7 years or something. I still miss you! Happy Reading!

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Monday, December 15, 2014

January choices!

From Jillene for our January meeting:

1) A Homemade life: stories and recipes from my kitchen table, by Molly Wizenburg.

2) Maman's Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen, by Donia Bijan

3) Bittersweet: thoughts on change, grace, and learning the hard way, by Shauna Niequist

Sunday, November 2, 2014

December reading choices

From Corinne:

The Caged Graves by Dianne Salerni

The year is 1867, and seventeen-year-old Verity Boone is excited to return from Worcester, Massachusetts, to Catawissa, Pennsylvania, the hometown she left when she was just a baby. Now she will finally meet the fiancé she knows only through letters! Soon, however, she discovers two strangely caged graves . . . and learns that one of them is her own mother’s. Verity swears she’ll get to the bottom of why her mother was buried in “unhallowed ground” in this suspenseful teen mystery that swirls with rumors of witchcraft, buried gold from the days of the War of Independence, and even more shocking family secrets.

The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery (who wrote Anne of Green Gables

Valancy Stirling is 29, unmarried, and has never been in love. Living with her overbearing mother and meddlesome aunt, she finds her only consolation in the "forbidden" books of John Foster and her daydreams of the Blue Castle—a place where all her dreams come true and she can be who she truly wants to be. Shortly after her birthday Valancy receives some news about her health that makes her decide to throw caution to the wind and make a fresh start. Rebelling against her family she soon discovers a surprising new world, full of love and adventures far beyond her most secret dreams. One of Montgomery's only novels intended for an adult audience, The Blue Castle is filled with humor and romance.

Counting by 7s by Holly Sloan

In the tradition of Out of My Mind, Wonder, and Mockingbird, this is an intensely moving middle grade novel about being an outsider, coping with loss, and discovering the true meaning of family.

Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn't kept her from leading a quietly happy life . . . until now.

Suddenly Willow's world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world. The triumph of this book is that it is not a tragedy. This extraordinarily odd, but extraordinarily endearing, girl manages to push through her grief. Her journey to find a fascinatingly diverse and fully believable surrogate family is a joy and a revelation to read.