Showing posts with label Punishment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Punishment. Show all posts
Monday, October 19, 2026

Sounder by William H Armstrong

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"He ran his fingers back and forth over the broad crown of the head  of a coon dog named Sounder." Publisher blurb:  Set in the 19...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

The Elixir by Lindsay Galvin illustrated by Kristina Kister

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Ann has inherited the gift of healing from her late grandmother. She works with her parents, brother and sister in the family apothecary. ...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

The Trouble with Heroes by Kate Messner

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Twelve weeks.  46 peaks.  Finish by Labor Day  and all the charges go away. A local youth has been arrested for vandalizing St. Mary’s Cemet...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Not Nothing Gayle Forman

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Before I start, I want to make it clear. He did something bad. Truly bad. I don’t want you to think I’m sidestepping that, or excusing it, o...
Friday, October 27, 2023

The Red Piano by André Leblanc illustrated by Barroux translated by Justine Werner

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"In the hut, the cramped rooms reek of warm sweat, the foul smell of extinguished coal fires and packed earth. Crammed together, the co...
Monday, November 20, 2017

Prisoner of ice and snow by Ruth Lauren

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" For the crime of attempted murder of a member of the royal family in the realm of Demidova, I sentence you to life in prison, beginn...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson

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She cannot chain my soul. We have had Chains  in our library for over a year but oddly I kept bringing home the sequel.  As is my us...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017

The Horribly Haunted School by Margaret Mahy illustrated by Robert Staermose

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I am a huge fan of Margaret Mahy and she doesn't disappoint with this junior novel.  Brilliant language, a laugh aloud plot, perfec...