by Roxanne Fequiere Fear of All of The Above When my coworker lent me her copy of Lisa Gardner’sFind Her, she said something to the effect … by Roxanne Fequiere Fear of Motherhood Like several million others over the holiday break, I turned to Netflix … by Roxanne Fequiere Once, m...
The Christmas Witch is Santa Claus’s misunderstood twin sister, separated from the big elf at a young age, in a picture book that rethinks everything we know about witches and the holidays! If you want to get a sense of the kinds of things witches get up to outside of the major ...
Well, actually it is. I did a little more digging and discovered that plans are already underway to replace it. They started back in 2016, after the white-supremacist murders in an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina. Many concerned citizens began looking at the legacy of Co...
Then one night Mary discovers Olive, her cousin who has been hidden away in an attic room for years due to a “nervous condition.” The girls become fast friends, and Mary wonders why this big-hearted girl is being kept out of sight and fed medicine that only makes her feel sicker. Wh...
But what I liked most about this book was the strength of those three women. Even as girls they are sharply aware (of each other when not of themselves) and they make mistakes and choices and life happens to them, but they are strong in their very core. The image I came away from ...
seventeen, she started writing the young adult fantasy novelThe Kingdom of Malinas, which was then published in 2008. This was to be the start of thePower of Malinastrilogy. The second book,The Empress Graves, published in 2010 and the third and final book,The Barbarians's Keyreleased in ...
Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium all her life, close to her mother’s grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds...
2012 was an excellent year for television. I loved watching Walter White (Bryan Cranston) lose the final pieces of his soul onBreaking Bad. The last shot of theGirlsseason finale,in which Hannah (Lena Dunham) finds herself on Coney Island (after passing out in the subway and getting her ...
The fun part of this book — a really clever move, if you ask me — comes when the painting speaks for itself. He has a distinctive voice, funny and full of insult and injury about the state of his neglect. As the painting says in his first turn to speak: ...
Then I found a beacon of hope is Andrea Beaty’s children’s book,Rosie Revere, Engineer. Beaty reminded me that another reason for the gap can be addressed now in our homes and in our schools. Many girls aren’t encouraged to persevere as tinkerers and inventors…makersof what’s next...