These are the books I first reviewed with teacher eyes rather than reader eyes. Interestingly enough, you discover that good writing doesn’t really have an age limit.

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry – xxx

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli – xxx

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor – Frack fell in love with this book when her second grade teacher read it to the class, prompting a purchase of it and the next two books in what is now the Shiloh Trilogy.

Missing May by Cynthia Rylant – xxx

The Giver by Lois Lowry – xxx

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech – xxx

The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman – xxx

The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg – xxx

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse – xxx

Holes by Louis Sachar – xxx

And the winner is…

Title of the book!

info about the book