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Criss Cross by Lynn Rae Perkins
Making my way through getting caught up on Newbery Medal winners, I read Criss Cross by Lynn Rae Perkins, the 2006 winner.
About the book: From School Library Journal
Starred Review. Grade 6-9–The author of the popular All Alone in the Universe (HarperCollins, 1999) returns with another character study involving those moments that occur in everyone’s life–moments when [...]
Current Reads: Children’s Lit
As part of my quest to keep up and read all of the Newbery Medal winners, I’m reading Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz. It’s a book of monologues of each of the characters in the village.
About the Book: From Publishers Weekly
Schlitz (The Hero Schliemann ) wrote these [...]