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Reviews: Children’s Fiction

Review: Safe as Houses by Eric Walters

Jun 4th, 2014
by Annie Kate.
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I often wonder, when I get a new library book by an author I do not know well, which of my kids can read it.  Miss 13 read this one—a quick skim showed me it was fine for her—but when I asked her if it was alright for her little sister, she was not sure. […]

Review: Anselm of Canterbury by Simonetta Carr

Apr 30th, 2014
by Annie Kate.
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Anselm, born just south of the Alps in 1033, was a studious lad who loved the Lord.  He wanted to become a monk, but his father had other plans for him.  Even when his youthful prayers to become ill were answered, the abbot refused to take him against his father’s wishes. Eventually Anselm left home, […]

Review: The Camp X Series by Eric Walters

Apr 7th, 2014
by Annie Kate.
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A while ago I reviewed Camp X by Eric Walters. That page-turner was the first of a series of World War II books for young people that ranges from Ontario to Bermuda to England. Here I present mini-reviews of the rest of the books in the series. Camp X: Camp 30 For their safety, George, Jack, […]

Review: Camp X by Eric Walters

Feb 19th, 2014
by Annie Kate.
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When their father went off to war, George, Jack and their mother, Mrs. Braun, moved to Whitby Ontario.  After all, there was no way they could run the farm without him.  Mrs. Braun took a job in the huge local munitions factory and, in the summer vacation of 1943, there was no one to take care […]

Review: A Surprise for Lily by Kinsinger and Fisher

Dec 4th, 2013
by Annie Kate.
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Each of the Lily Lapp books has been better than the previous one, and this is no exception.  I read it in one evening, resting on the couch in front of the fire, enjoying a book as cozy as my surroundings. Lily Lapp, now eleven years old, is growing up.  She still gets into trouble, […]

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