Book Review Goodbye Pink Room

Goodbye Pink Room
Jane Grayson
April.01.2014

Jane Grayson packs a powerful punch in Goodbye Pink Room... Jane Grayson has written a very difficult but necessary book that could have well been ripped out of today's headlines....A respected church worker sexually abuses a young girl one of his Sunday School Students.

Jane Grayson has written a very difficult book to read but that one that needs to be read.  This book could very well open the subject of child sexual abuse.  It can also make you more aware of the signs.

This powerful book deserves more than five stars.  And yes this is one I would most definitely recommend...

Book Review: Eyes Wide Open

Eyes Wide Open

Ted Dekker

Copyright 2013

if you love Psychological thrillers that will keep you guessing from the beginning to the end.  Eyes Wide Open I a book I would recommend although this is not my favorite book by Ted Deemed it is very good...

As I said I would recommend this book to those who like psychological thrillers that leave you guessing to the end...

Book Review Me Since You

Me Since You

Laura Wriess
Copyright 2014

Sixteen year old Rowan can not carrying the guilt for the tragedies in her life...Firs her Father is called to a jumper a friend of Rowans jumps from a bridge with his infant child...Her father is called to the scene because he is in the area because he's picking Rowan up from work but her Father can't stop blaming himself and a Rowan could not help but blame herself...If he hadn't been in the area at that time he would not have been the first one to respond to the call.  Her Fathers death leaves her and her Mother lost hurt and angry..,

Me Since You is a good read full of emotions but I would not recommend this book to younger kids the subject matter and language makes it geared towards at least highschool age...

Book Review: Willow

Willow
Tonya Cherie Hegamin
2014
Candlewick Press

Willow is a young adults historical fiction story, about a young slave woman and her Father, Willow learns to read, and has that going for her, but she still faces many dangers of slavery, and they realize they have to escape.  Willow lost her Mother years before, and does not really remember her, but she writes letters to her, although she is gone, a kind of rugged journal.  Eventually they do manage to escape into Canada, where they are finally able to live free.

I think this is a wonderful Ya Novel, is a great book for mid grade to highschool readers, it is well written and I would highly recommend it... 

Book Review: Only the Lonely

Only The Lonely
Laura Dower
Copyright 2001

Madison is allergic to change but everything is changing.  She is starting seventh grade which means a lot of changes.  Even her friends are changing and she is not sure she likes it.  In the midst of all the change she comes to the realization that she too is changing and maybe not all change has to be bad.

I thought this book was very cute and 3rd through seventh grade girls would really enjoy it.  I would recommend this book for the young and the young at heart...

Book Review: Seven Stories Up

Seven Stories Up
Laurel Snyder
2014

Annie goes to visit her dying Grandmother in 1987, and finds herself going fifty years into the past, to befriend her Grandmother as a young girl.   She encourages her grandmother to live her dreams, to do the things she always dreamed of doing.  She gets to know her grandmother as a young girl, and her grandmother gets to meet her forty years before she is born. 

I enjoyed reading of the things Annie encouraged her grandmother to do, the goals she encouraged her to reach that she may not have been able to had Annie not gone back in time

I would highly recommend this book to Middle grade to young adult readers...

Book Review: The Freedom Maze

The Freedom Maze
Deliah Sherman
2011

The Freedom Maze is the story of 13-year-old Sophie who in the summer of 1960 is dumped off at her maternal grandmothers house.  She feels unwanted alone and bored but soon she finds a maze that transports her a hundred years in the past, she becomes a slave child instead of the Caucasian child she was before. 

Sophie spends six months in 1860 though it turns out to only be an hour in 1960 that she goes missing.  She learns that her thoughts on Slavery and the idea that "Slaves" somehow had it easy, and were less than human beings was wrong.  She comes back with a deeper understanding an appreciation for what slavery was, and what slaves went through. 

The Freedom Maze is a historical fantasy, and is very well written.  Young adults who like historical novels or fantasies would really enjoy The Freedom Maze. 

I would highly recommend this book I could not put it down.