I really enjoy reading the book by Dandi Daley Mackall called Horsefeathers. It’s about a fourteen-year-old girl named Sarahh Coop (Scoop for short). She was adopted, but then her adoptive parents died. So her aunt comes to live with her and her little brother, B.C.. When the farm her grandfather owns is in danger of being used as land for Dalton Stables, Scoop must find a way to save it, and her beautiful horse, Orphan. […] Read more »
Detectives in Togas, by Henry Winterfeld, Book Review
Seven schoolboys, Caius, Mucius, Flavius, Publius, Julius, Rufus, and Antonius, lead a dull and boring life in ancient Rome, (772 by Roman years, 24 A.D. by American years). That is, until Rufus hangs a wax tablet stating in plain words, CAIUS IS A DUMBBELL, on the wall of the classroom, gets in a fight with Caius, and is expelled from school by their teacher Xantippus. But when the very same words appear on the sacred […] Read more »
Winnie the Horse Gentler, Series Review
I really enjoy reading the Winnie the Horse Gentler series, by Dandi Daley Mackall. I even gave it the Oldberry Award of the month! The eight-book series stars a fictional girl named Winifred Willis. After her mother, a famous horse gentler, died in a car accident, her father moved them away from their home in Wyoming, moving them to all the I states in America, before finally settling down in the small town of Ashland, […] Read more »