CREEK CRITIQUES

Young Jim Hawkins and his parents live in the inn they run and one day a stranger comes and stays at the inn for months. Jim's father...

Jasmine Warga's novel in verse was a decent audiobook. I enjoyed hearing the words that I wouldn't have known how to pronounce otherwise....

When wealthy Asian parents send their kids to America to attend high schools and drop them off to live with host families or on their...

In typical Gratz style, this novel interweaves several storylines with characters from all over the world coming together as Allies to...

I’ve always been a fan of Peg Kehret’s action packed kids’ books. In fact, Deadly Stranger was my favorite in elementary school! It was a...

Genesis is used to moving around. She knows her dad struggles - with keeping a job, with alcoholism, with kindness. Her mom works hard...

Coraline Jones is lonely in her new apartment. Things aren't quite what they seem. Coraline sets out to explore and uncovers a secret...

When orphan Poppy gets a personal letter inviting her to come stay at Larkspur house with her long lost Aunt Delphinia, she's ecstatic....

This book is about a 12-year-old girl named Amal who lives in rural Pakistan with her family. She has many dreams and goals she wishes to...

Whoa. This is such a powerful memoir in verse. Laurie Halse Anderson reveals the demons in her past that led her to write her books,...

Thirteen-year-old Nicky has been passed from foster home to foster home since her dad’s been in prison and her grandma passed away. She...

I listened to this audiobook narrated by the author on my drive from Galveston to OKC today. It’s a fun story about a thirteen-year-old...

American Max and his family have moved to Brussels, Belgium for a year. Max is not happy that not only will he be repeating sixth grade,...

Amal wants to be a teacher, but being a girl in small-town Pakistan, she is not expected to have an education. Instead, when her mother...

When Reena and her family pick up from the busy city and move to a quiet area in Maine, they are definitely fish out of water! Reena and...

What a sweet story! Long-distance runner Dion Leonard was running a multi-day race in the Gobi Desert when a little dog came out of...

Eleven-year-old Alex Petroski is obsessed with space. He's even copying the golden record that was sent into space in the 1970s by using...

I guess I know myself well enough to know this classic of the horror genre wouldn't be quite right for me. I did enjoy it for its...

After several of my friends said this was the best book they'd ever read, I put myself on the wait list for it at the public library....

Living in Guatemala is all Jaime knows, but when his cousin Miguel is murdered by the local gang, Jaime doesn't have a choice but to...