New Series I’m Hoarding

Before my cousin gave me Sweet Valley Twins #4 (Choosing Sides) when I was nine years old, I was perfectly content with borrowing The Bobbsey Twins and Nancy Drew from the school library. That singular point in time involving a seemingly innocuous present, however, spurred one of my life passions: my personal library that IContinue reading “New Series I’m Hoarding”

Book Review: The Penderwicks #1 by Jeanne Birdsall

The first book of the The Penderwicks Series by Jeanne Birdsall is set in summer. It was published in 2005, which, in my mind, is pretty recent, so I consider this a new book since most of the books of this kind that I read are usually at least 40 years old. The Penderwicks: AContinue reading “Book Review: The Penderwicks #1 by Jeanne Birdsall”