Thanks to Ricki and Kellee at Unleashing Readers and Jen at Teach Mentor Texts for hosting this meme. Your TBR lists will grow longer, but you will find books to love and to share.
It was great reading last week amidst the busy days of the bookstore and celebrating one of the granddaughter's birthdays, and spending time writing, too. Here are some of the books I enjoyed.
I was excited to receive this ARC from Candlewick Press by Anne Nesbet because I adored another book by her, Cloud and Wallfish. Happy Book Birthday to Anne on April 10th for this book, another one set long ago, this time pre-World War II. It's time to celebrate! Again I love Nesbit's style, including so many details in this story of eleven-year-old Gusta’s life whose life is about change just like the world around her. We readers learn her thoughts, see characters that surround Gusta in depth, and learn much of that Maine community, family and neighbors, the countryside itself with poetic descriptions. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. Nearsighted, snaggletoothed Gusta arrives in Springdale, Maine, lugging her one precious possession: a beloved old French horn, a memento of her father.