by Jane Green | Sep 2, 2024
When I am overloaded mentally, sometimes I just want to find an easy, fun, book to read. Most of the time I go for middle-grade books because they’re usually well written with great descriptions and roll through your head like a movie as you read them. So, on...
by Jane Green | Oct 16, 2023
Sarah Whitcher’s Story, by Elizabeth Yates, is listed on the cover as a folktale from New Hampshire. A folktale is a story passed down through the years by word of mouth. They may have a bit of truth in them, or be more like a fairy tale. They are passed down as...
by Jane Green | Jun 21, 2021
Middle grade fiction is a hard category to recognize. It comes after chapter books, which many times is geared toward the same age group. It can be divided into lower and upper middle grade. The age range of middle grade readers is usually eight through twelve, or 4th...
by Jane Green | Feb 22, 2021
What a beautiful book cover! I want to be there on this cold, rainy day!! If you have read any of my other blog posts, you know how much I love the author, Robin Jones Gunn. I devour any new book she writes and read the older ones over when I am out of reading...
by Jane Green | Feb 15, 2021
I typically don’t read medical series or watch medical shows on TV. They usually get it wrong, and after spending many years in the medical field as a Neonatal Intensive Care and Labor and Delivery nurse, I tend to nitpick their discrepancies. The series I am...
by Jane Green | Dec 28, 2020
Purple Moon, by Tessa Emily Hall, is great fiction for teen girls that focuses on many of the struggles that are faced by them today and encourages redemption, found through a relationship with Christ. Some of the issues addressed in the story are drug and alcohol...
