The Body Scoop for Girls: A Straight-Talk Guide to a Healthy, Beautiful You

The Body Scoop for Girls
Reviewed by Kim Childress
This book could alternately be titled “Everything You Could Ever Possibly Hope to Learn From Your OB-GYN.” It may technically be for tweens and teens, but moms are absolutely guaranteed to learn a thing or two, whether about the subject at hand or how to talk to your [...]

Tween Book Review – The Book of the Maidservant

The Book of the Maidservant was inspired by the fifteenth-century text The Book of Margery Kempe, the first autobiography in English. In this book, debut novelist Rebecca Barnhouse tells the story of a religious pilgrimage from the point of view Johanna, the maid servant – an unenviable position if there ever was one. [...]

Teen Book Review – Once a Witch

Looking for a great book to get your girl hooked on reading? For the older tween or teen, check out Once a Witch, by Carolyn MacCulloug, an urban witch fantasy.
My character Tamsin is part of a magically gifted family but is spectacularly ungifted herself – despite a prophecy from her grandmother that foretold a [...]