Anne Frank and Me , by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld (1997), is this week's Timeslip Tuesday offering. It tells of a teenaged girl,...

The Sky Over Rebecca , by Matthew Fox (November 14, 2023, Union Square Kids in the US,    April 14, 2022, Hodder Childrens in the UK), is my...

When the Sky Falls, by Phil Earle  (April 5th 2022 in the US by Bloomsbury Children's Books, June 2021 in the UK), is a moving book abou...

  In  The Amber Crane , by Malve von Hassell (YA, Odyssey Books, June 2021), a boy from the 17th century and a girl from the 20th cross path...

 The Longest Night of Charlie Moon , by Christopher Edge, is a surreal little gem of a middle grade timeslip story that enticed me, confused...

I thought about the Blitz quite a lot in the Spring of 2000, when life became full of fearful uncertainty mixed with dull, aching boredom, a...

In Throwback (link to my review), Peter Lerangis told the story of an ordinary New York boy, Corey Fletcher, who discovers he has an extrao...

Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black , by Marcus Sedgwick and Julian Sedgewick, illustrated by Alexis Deacon (Walker Books US, Augus...

"A middle grade book about ghostly spying in WW II England?  Sign me up!" sums up my reaction to The Turnkey of Highgate Cemeter...

The Dollmaker of Krakow , by R.M. Romero (Delacorte, middle grade, Sept. 2017) is a haunting historical fantasy set in WW II that has jus...

This week's Timeslip Tuesday book is Cold Summer , by Gwen Cole (Sky Pony Press, 2017), a YA with a generous dash of romance made tric...

I have  actually gotten my ducks in a row and have a book for this week's Timeslip Tuesday-- Once Was a Time , by Leila Sales (Chro...

The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle , by Janet Fox (Viking Books for Young Readers, March 15, 2016, middle grade), went on my tbr lis...

Theoretically I am only supposed to be reading books from my TBR pile until I have read 100 of them....but in practice I just had to read ...

Ghosts of War: The Secret of Midway , by Steve Watkins (Scholastic, December 2014, middle grade) is ghost story with bonus exciting histor...

Sometimes I read a book and am stunned by its kid appeal, and other times I read a book and want to urge other grown-ups to read it, and ...

This week, Timeslip Tuesday falls on a Wednesday (these things happen, even in the best of families), and today's book is Behind Enemy...

Listening for Lucca , by Suzanne LaFleur (Wendy Lamb Books, August  2013, middle grade), is a gentle sort of time slip book with a very in...

Crocuses Were Over, Hitler Was Dead , by Geraldine Symons (1977).   The old house has been empty for years, sitting in its English gar...

Terry Pratchett is, of course, best known for his Discworld books, but he also wrote (among other things) a three book sci fi/fantasy series...