May 29, 2017

S’mores go better with stories!

In Judy Moody and Stink: The Big Bad Blackout, Megan McDonald manages a feat that all too often eludes other authors of children's fiction. She keeps
April 15, 2016

They’re not like other wasps…

Kenneth Oppel's The Nest is a rare sort of book indeed — a children's psychological horror novel that manages to build and sustain suspense for its
March 13, 2016

All aboard the STEAM train!

At Accella, with some of our younger students, we recently read Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine. Laurie Wallmark's book, lavishly illustrated