When I picked up this book at the BEA, Melissa pounced on it and said, “You got the new Diary of a Wimpy Kid!” “I did?” “There are two other books…” “There are?” “And they’re great!” “Well, that’s good!”
As you might be able to tell, I have spent the last several decades rereading Betsy-Tacy, Anne [...]

The Amaranth Enchantment is a terrific reworking of the Cinderella fairy story, which is not something that they try to hide in any way; the heroine’s name is Lucinda, for heaven’s sake.  Author Julie Berry is not married to the source work, but uses it as a base to start from, shooting the story out [...]