TK Stone's Library Blog (not an official EIS website)

If I had predicted 100 different ways that The Kneebone Boy might have ended, I still wouldn’t have come close to the actual ending.  This book, the most recent by Ellen Potter, is the story of an adventure of the Hardscrabble children. To say that these children are strange might be an understatement. The oldest [...]

In honor of Banned Books Week and a controversy brewing in Missouri, I read Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson.  While I have been familiar with Anderson for some time, I had never read this book.  It is a powerful book that deals with a delicate subject.  The main character, Melinda, is dealing with a rape [...]