“Killer Kane, Killer Kane, Had a kid who got no brain. . . “ This is what the kids at Max’s school see him as. In “Freak the Mighty,” by Rodman Philbrick, Max, a tall and hulking sixth grader, has to put up with special classes, repetitive grades, along with new clothes and shoes every […]
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As always, The Mark of Athena is a masterpiece of both Greek and Roman mythology. When Leo, Jason, Piper, Annabeth and Coach Hedge arrive in the Camp Jupiter, alliance between them and Camp Half-Blood – the Greek side of mythology – becomes a distant hope when the Romans start preparing for war. After escaping with […]
Blood on the River, by Elisa Carbone, is an enticing book based on the early settlement of Jamestown, in the New World (aka, America). It’s set in the early 1600s and is in first person. When Samuel Colliez, a former street urchin, becomes Captain John Smith’s page, he can’t believe his luck; He’s on a […]