by John Medina
Reading level: Adult
Reviewed by Kathy Davis
The brain is an amazing organ – complex, fascinating and indispensable! Yet how many of us ignore our brains– too busy with multi-tasking, managing schedules, maintaining websites, and taking care of everyone's problems and dirty laundry ( note I mean that in the literal, household sense), that we end up neglecting ourselves and find ourselves on a slippery slope downward with our brain health. Read more...
Posted at May 09 2008 19:59:06 |
by J.H. Sweet
Reading level: Ages 7 - 12
Reviewed by Michelle Kerns
The Mimosa Fairy, 10 year-old Alexandra Hastings, has a problem—she knows she cannot use her fairy magic for anything but fairy business. However, her mother cannot seem to quit smoking and Alexandra is terrified that she will lose her mother just as she lost her father when she was 4. If Alexandra uses magic, she can help her mother stop smoking forever. But then, Alexandra will lose her fairy spirit and never be a fairy again. Read more...
Posted at May 09 2008 19:09:30 |
by J.H. Sweet
Reading level: Ages 7 - 12
Reviewed by Michelle Kerns
Helen Michaels, a 10 year-old black girl who has been endowed with the fairy spirit of a cinnabar moth is the latest addition to the young fairies in the Fairy Chronicle series. Helen’s special fairy gift is her ability to perform better at night than during the day. Because of this talent, she is chosen to lead the fairies in a dangerous mission to the Island of Shadows. Read more...
Posted at May 09 2008 19:06:38 |
by J.H. Sweet
Reading level: Ages 7 - 12
Reviewed by Michelle Kerns
The focus of Firefly and the Quest of the Black Squirrel is Lenox Hart, a homeschooled friend of Beth (the Marigold Fairy), Jennifer (the Dragonfly Fairy), and Grace (the Thistle Fairy). Lenox’s special fairy gift is a light she carries inside her; the light not only is a source of brightness and inspiration to everyone around Lenox, but, as she finds in this book, is the source of something even more powerful. Read more...
Posted at May 09 2008 18:56:25 |
by Craig Massey
Reading level: Ages 8 - 13
Reviewed by Wayne S. Walker
Fifteen year old Gordon Hunt, who lives in Philadelphia, PA, with his parents, older brother Jack and younger sister, is accused of a crime that he did not do and is sentenced to spend the summer working on the farm of his uncle and aunt, where his cousin Willie, also fifteen, despises him, but he is befriended by a kind neighbor, Johnny Blueweather, who talks to him about Christ and forgiveness. However, he is again accused of a crime that he did not do. Read more...
Posted at May 02 2008 19:53:29 |
