Sarah Kurz

"Alec didn't really want to be in a club either...and he really didn't want to start one.  To have to get an activity organized and then keep it going, day after day?  That sounded horrible.  Because right now, today?  All he wanted to do was read." The Losers Club , by Andrew Clements,   is the story of 6th grader Alec who wants nothing more than to hide away with a good book. But Alec's teachers, parents, and principal think he's spending a little too much time inside his books.  And the teachers in charge of the after school program want him to be more involved.  Determined to get his reading time in, Alec creates The Losers Club, a place where he can be left alone with his books after school.  When fellow 6th grader, Nina, joins the club Alec realizes that the world outside of his books can be pretty intense. This was a really cute middle-grade read that I read out loud along with my 10-year-old son.  We both enjoyed it.  Alec...

"The crow in me had loyalty and passion.  The MoFo in me, hope.  I was about to unleash a motherfucking hurricane." Hollow Kingdom , by Kira Jane Buxton, is the story of a crow and his dog fighting to survive during the mass extinction of mankind.  And it is absolutely wonderful.  Everything I want in a book.  Nature, suspense, laughter, tears, zombies.  The book is narrated by S.T., a crow who was raised as a pet by a human.  S.T. loves the humans (or MoFos, as he affectionately calls them) and wishes he were one.  His world is turned upside down on day when he realizes that his human, Big Jim, is terribly ill and cannot be saved.  S.T. decides to leave home and explore Seattle with his best friend, a bloodhound named Dennis.  He quickly realizes that the world isn't what it once was as he searches for any human survivors and he makes it his mission to rescue as many domestic animals as he can.  Because S.T. was raised as a d...