middle grade reading - Snoring Scholar

Ungifted: Here’s Why 11-Year-Old Fern Calls It a 5-Star Read

by Fern | Oct 30, 2016 | Books, Fern's Writing, guest post, Reviews | 0 |

Fern (age 11) reads and reviews Ungifted, by Gordon Korman. Turns out she loves it, and what she has to say piques my interest, too!

Olivia and the Little Way: A 5-Star Read, Says My Daughter

by Fern | Sep 24, 2016 | Books, Fern's Writing, guest post, Reviews | 0 |

Fern (age 11) reads Olivia and the Little Way and gives it a hearty 5 stars.

‘Frindle’ by Andrew Clements: 5 Stars from My Girls

by Fern | Jun 20, 2016 | Books, Fern and Charlotte's Book Club, guest post, Reviews | 1 |

Fern (age 11) and Charlotte (age 8) share their review of ‘Frindle,’ a middle grade novel by Andrew Clements.

My Girls Review ‘Libby of High Hopes’ by Elise Primavera

by Fern | Jun 6, 2016 | Books, Fern and Charlotte's Book Club, guest post, Reviews | 0 |

Fern (age 11) and Charlotte (age 8) share their thoughts about ‘Libby of High Hopes,’ a middle grade novel by Elise Primavera.

Fern Reviews Have Courage, Be Kind: The Tale of Cinderella

by Fern | Mar 22, 2016 | Books, Fern's Writing, guest post, Reviews | 0 |

11-year-old Fern has a review of the new(ish) Cinderella tale ‘Have Courage, Be Kind’. It’s Disney-inspired and she mostly liked it.

Fern Reviews Chime Travelers, Books 1 and 2

by Fern | Jul 27, 2015 | Books, Fern's Writing, guest post, Reviews | 0 |

Ten-year-old Fern reviews Books 1 and 2 of the brand-new Chime Travelers series by Lisa Hendey.

Fern Reviews The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell

by Fern | Jul 20, 2015 | Books, Fern's Writing, guest post, Reviews | 5 |

Ten-year-old Fern reviews The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell, by Chris Colfer.

A Series for Younger Readers: Sisters of the Last Straw

by Sarah Reinhard | Oct 21, 2014 | Books, Reviews | 0 |

Now that my first grader is discovering that she not only likes to be read to, but that she can...

Takes of the Quick Sort

by Sarah Reinhard | Sep 30, 2011 | Quick Takes | 3 |

-1- It. Is. Finished. (Well, the Ugly First Draft is, anyway. Including sidebars.) -2- Now that I’m done with my Ugly First Draft of this manuscript (it’s a Catholic guide to pregnancy–more details when we have...

Tristan’s Travels

by Sarah Reinhard | Dec 21, 2010 | Books, Reviews | 0 |

Thanks to some work I do with the Catholic Writers Guild, I was first acquainted with Tristan, a seagull with an aversion to flight and an affinity for the news, via the manuscript for Karl Bjorn Erickson’s new release,...