‘The Scarlet Letter’ is also a good read outside classroom My last review offered a look back into colonial America and reminded me of another book that was set in the same era. Most of you have probably even read the same book yourselves….although not willingly. “The Scarlet Letter” was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in [...]
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‘Red Geranium’ brief, meaningful
by LISA HAKES Good things come in small packages. That statement is certainly true in regards to the book, “The Red Geranium” by Janette Oke. In fact, this review may actually contain more words than the book itself. It’s a great opportunity for you to pick up a book and in a half of an [...]
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I love a good mystery. It’s fun to play detective right along with the characters as I, too, try to figure out the perpetrator of the crime. Turns out, its always the person you never suspect. This is certainly the case in the book, “Dark Secrets of the Old Oak Tree” by Delores J. Wilson. [...]
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You will be guessing at who the ‘unexpected guest is in the ‘The Diary’ Many of us, at one point in our lives, have probably kept a diary. If someone were to read from its pages, would they be surprised at what they read? “The Diary,” by bestselling author Eileen Goudge, is the story of [...]
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Reading is ‘inspirtational’ Lisa Hakes A few years ago at school conferences one of my son’s teachers told me that in our early years of school we learn how to read and in our later years of school (and life) we read to learn. I just love that phrase. Reading is a life long activity. [...]
