by Susan Barnes | 11 Jul 2018 | Book Reviews
Addie McAllister is a feisty 12-year-old whose life goes from one disaster to another. Her parents are Shakespearean actors who find it difficult to find work during the Great Depression around the 1930’s in Australia. Addie’s adventures begin when she is left at the...
by Susan Barnes | 22 Nov 2017 | Book Reviews
The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty is a well-written, whimsical story about ten-year-old Bronte. She lives with an aunt and her butler as her parents mysteriously disappeared on an adventure when she was a baby. The story...
by Susan Barnes | 24 May 2017 | Book Reviews
The Elephant Thief begins in the slums of Edinburg with a street urchin, who comes to be known as Danny. He is given the opportunity of a new life when he is drawn into a plan to walk an elephant from Edinburgh to Manchester. The book is based on a true story which...
