Growing up, a lot of my friends were in books. Besides The Baby-Sitters Club, I was also very fond of the girls in¬† Susan Saunders’¬†Sleepover Friends series. Lauren, Kate, Stephanie, and Patti were¬†inseparable, and even better...
The Help, a story of civil rights in the 1960s, by American novelist Kathryn Stockett is one of my all-time favourite books. As a relatively new novel–it was first published in 2009–I guess not many people will have it listed as...
In our “Literary Girls” series we have discussed many amazing, inspiring heroines from books we cherished while growing up. Flavia de Luce has appeared on the scene more recently, as the first novel she was featured in was...
Momo, or Momo and The Grey Gentlemen is the translated title of a book by the German author Michael Ende. Ende also wrote the famous fantasy novel which was re-imagined into the 1984 film The Neverending Story. Momo is a philosophical work of fantasy fiction which can...
‚ÄúI hope you’re pleased with yourselves. We could have been all killed — or worse, expelled.‚Äù -Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer‚Äôs Stone That was me in elementary school....
