Colorado Authors’ League names 2014 award winners
The Colorado Authors’ League named its 2014 honorees on May 8, with awards going out in categories ranging from poetry to fiction to childrens books, magazine journalism to blogging. Among those...
View Article"The Madman of Piney Woods" by Christopher Paul Curtis (review)
"He was smart, but he believed everything I said about the woods. I told him I could tell by the piece of deer scat on one of the trails that it was a sign that the Madman of Piney Woods had taken his...
View Article"The Sittin' Up" by Shelia P. Moses (review)
"What you doing in town so early?" "Papa looked his friend in the eyes with great sadness. "'Mr. Bro. Wiley is dead and gone. We on our way to get Mr. Gordon.' "Mr. Creecy's face, that always looked...
View Article"Sick Simon" (review)
"We're germs, and we make people sick. "Not to brag, but I'm Virus, and I make people vomit. "Protozoa here. Diarrhea's my thing. "I'm Bacteria. I do infections. And we couldn't go anywhere without...
View Article"I'm Gonna Climb a Mountain in my Patent Leather Shoes" (review)
Unlike most girly-girls, Sadie is totally cool with going camping, as long as she packs her own sparkly suitcase with lacy socks, ruffled underpants, tiara and tutu. It's okay, because her family is...
View Article"Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
Sharon M. Draper's "Stella by Starlight" (the title is also a Miles Davis song) is dedicated to her grandmother, Estelle Twitty Mills Davis, and her father, Vick D. Mills, who each grew up in a deeply...
View Article"The War That Saved My Life" (review)
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's tender young adult novel "The War that Saved My Life" should be short-listed for a Newbery Award. It's a richly detailed, sympathetic portrait of a pragmatic British girl...
View Article"Red: A Crayon's Story" by Michael Hall (review)
"Red," Michael Hall's deceptively simple story about a crayon, also is a metaphor for people who feel quite differently inside than they appear externally. In "Red," a crayon wearing a clearly marked...
View Article"Echo" by Pam Mun~oz Ryan (review)
Pam Mun~oz Ryan's novel "Echo" is a saga about, of all things, a harmonica and the people who, over time, come to own it. The story begins not long after the U.S. Civil War, but in Germany, with a boy...
View ArticleEating disorders and teens; "Sugar' and "Paperweight" (reviews)
For someone with an eating disorder, whether it's overeating or compulsively restricting calories, food is both friend and enemy, something both comforting and threatening. "Paperweight" is about a...
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