Books

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ABC’s for Strong Girls

(NOTE: I was given a copy of this coloring book to review but all opinions are my own.) The world that my granddaughters are growing up in is SO much different from the one I grew up in. (Sheesh! I grew up in a different century and a different millennium. […]

The Night Tent

(NOTE: I was given a copy of this book to review but all opinions are my own.) Sometimes, kids have a hard time going to sleep. (I identify with that and I’m hardly a kid!) Well, this is about Watson who can’t go to sleep because he’s worried about the […]

Graysen Foxy Book Review

(NOTE: I was given a copy of this book to preview but all opinions are mine.) One lost treasure. One determined fifth-grade treasure hunter. One set of faithful twin third-grade assistants. One bully. One mortal enemy nicknamed Red Raven. A network of second-grade spies. One person with a secret agenda. […]

My Baba’s Garden Book Review

Holodomor. A Ukrainian word derived from one that means to kill by starvation. Known as theĀ Terror–FamineĀ or theĀ Great Famine, it was a man-made famine inĀ Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 during which millions of Ukrainians died. It also affected other major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union. Stalin forced peasant farmers […]