In January, HarperCollins is publishing Ransom My Heart, a new novel “by Princess of Genovia Mia Thermopolis, with help from Meg Cabot.” I obtained an advance copy of this book from Harper to evaluate for their First Look program. I was also reading it for my old bookstore, because they sell a lot of Princess [...]

This is a sweetie pie of a book. A nice book, as I like to say. A book you can hand to a grandmother or a mother or an aunt or the kid themselves and simply say I think you will really like this. There’s always enough room in the world for another nice [...]

(I keep not posting reviews because I think they always have to be longer than this. So instead of not posting them because they’re not long enough, I’m just going to post them when they’re short anyway.)
What does a family lose when a child is lost? What is stolen from a girl’s life when [...]

This book launches Harper’s new Bowen Press, so you know it was chosen very carefully. I think it’s a worthy launch title – it has a lovely feel to it. Sort of a Penderwicks feel, although not quite so lighthearted; maybe a little timeless, like Elizabeth Enright, but with a dash of the seriousness Sharon [...]