Book Review: Wink

Wink: Surviving Middle School with One Eye OpenRob Harrell We’re starting the year off strong with this captivatingly raw, yet polished contemporary middle grade novel. There is only one thing keeping me from giving it a full 5 stars, which I will get into below. If you liked School of Rock, or are a fan…

Book Review: Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

I was prickly going into Jordan Sonnenblick’s Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie (which will now be referred to as DGaDP, because that is an awful lot to type). My mother has been battling with cancer on and off for the last 7 years, and at a certain point, it makes you touchy and want to clam up…