Reading for CYBILS
It's started! The nominations for the CYBILS awards started this week and I've got 19 books on hold at my local library... yikes. I hope I can keep up! Luckily, there were several I had already read and a bunch I'd never heard of so I started yesterday and finished the first one this morning. I hope the rest aren't this emotional or I might not survive! The first one is called "The Penderwicks in Spring" by Jeanne Birdsall. This one is the fourth one in the series and although I read the first one, I haven't read the second or third one and I really don't remember too much about the first one other than I liked it. The Penderwicks are a big, loving, old fashioned kind of family. The kids are nice to each other and although the story is set in a modern time (there are cultural references that make that obvious) the kids play outside, listen to music, and read and seem completely oblivious to screens. There are some issues and this book, t...