Welcome to the Children and Young Adults Literature Blog!  Click the tabs above to read book reviews for various types of literature.

Picture Books
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Let's Say Hi to Friends Who Fly by Mo Willems
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Traditional Literature
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! by Jon Scieszka
The First Strawberries by Joseph Bruchac
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback

Poetry
The Little Buggers by J. Patrick Lewis
The Only and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones

Nonfiction
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally M. Walker
Frogs by Nic Bishop

Historical Fiction
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
What To Do About Alice? by Barbara Kerley
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis

Fantasy & YA Fiction
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds