Mindy’s Top Ten of 2010

 Posted by  Book Reviews, Mindy's Reviews
Dec 302010
 

This is going to be like picking my favorite child, but luckily, I read so many books this year that there was some that really stood out. I finished my 100 Books for 2010 Reading Challenge just today!

10. Clockwork Angel – Cassandra Claire

9. Paranormalcy – Kiersten White

8. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer & Ann Barrows

7. Devil’s Food Cake – Josi Kilpack

6. Walk Two Moons – Sharon Creech

5. Enchanted, Inc. series – Shanna Swendson

4. Matched – Ally Condie

3. The Help – Kathryn Stockett

2. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

Drum role……

1. The Hunger Games series – Suzanne Collins

Some honorable mentions:

  • The 39 Clues series – Various Authors
  • The Golden Spiral – Lisa Mangum
  • My Ridiculous, Romantic Obsessions – Becca Wilhite
  • The Necromancer – Michael Scott
  • Princess of Glass – Jessica Day George
  • Keys to the Demon Prison– Brandon Mull
  • Peter and the Star Catcher’s series – Dave Barry/Ridley Pearson
  • Gregor the Overlander Series – Suzanne Collins

Happy New Year and Happy Reading!

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

 Posted by  Book Reviews, Mindy's Reviews
Jul 012010
 

Walk Two Moons

Written By: Sharon Creech
Published: Harper Collins Children’s Books
Published in: 1994
Won a Newbery Award
Hardcover – 280
ISBN: 0-06-023334-6
First of all, I have to thank Kelli again for this one. She told me about this book awhile ago, and it sat on my to-read shelf for a couple weeks while I was reading more 39 clues. It was coming due, so I started it on a Tuesday, and finished Wednesday. I loved it. It was such a great story. Actually, it’s a story within a story. Sal, is the main character. Her full name is Salamanca Tree Hiddle. She and her father just moved to Ohio from Kentucky. Sal isn’t happy about it. She misses everything about Kentucky. She misses the farm she loved, the trees, animals, her swing, everything. However, her dad had to get away. From what I won’t say because it would too much away.
In Ohio, she meets Phoebe. She’s a strange girl, whose home life seems a bit too perfect. But, something happens in her house that takes perfect off the table. Sal’s dad is close to their neighbor Mrs. Cadaver, and she isn’t thrilled about it. She is the one who helps her dad get a new job, and helps them find a place to stay in Euclid. But, Mrs. Cadaver’s story is revealed at the end, and it made me cry. A stranger comes to the neighborhood, and sets Sal and Phoebe investigating.
But, that’s the story in the story. Sal is taken on a road trip with Gramps and Gran. They want to take her on the same trip that her mom made a year or so earlier. Sal’s mom is Sugar. The heart of story is about her, and why she left. The purpose of the road trip is to see her.
I really enjoyed this book. There wasn’t anything I didn’t like. Phoebe wasn’t my favorite, but I see why she acted the way she did. I liked Ben a lot too. Gramps and Gran are funny, sweet, and seem like they would be fun to hang out with. The last few chapters had me crying. I honestly didn’t want the story and the story within the story to end.
Thank you Kelli for a great recommendation!
4 1/2 stars
I recommend it and would read it again.
I would read more from this author. Going to check out Bloomability next.
FTC FYI- borrowed from library.
(P.S.) It’s great to be back! Wasn’t the Countdown to Summer Awesome?!