Snow day!!

Ahhh, snow days! Time to tackle the "want to read" stack that has been patiently waiting for just the day. Cheryl is in the middle of Ingrid Law's Scumble, her companion book to Savvy. Once again, Law has come through with rich characters like Marisol, Mequite, Rocket, Fish, Gyspy, Fedora, and Ledge. Her way with words is truly unique as the story is told by newly, thirteen year-old Ledge, "If I were invisible, Mom wouldn't know that I'd ruined my clothes skidding to catch the falling jar. I wouldn't have to be Ledge the not-so-supersonic runner, or Ledge the have-to-be perfect kid all the time. I could anyone I wanted to be, because nobody would be watching." Ledge is not happy with his new "savvy" that he has received, or the fact that there is a curious Sarah Jane who is trying to blackmail Ledge with Grandma Dollop's wedding jar. Can't wait to finish.

Mandy was able to finish two books. The first was Sabotaged the third book from Margaret Peterson Haddix's "The Missing" series. The time travel & historical mysteries aspect of this series is what makes it particularly intriguing to Mandy. Althought she enjoyed this third installment, dealing with the Roanoke Colony, the time travel details may bog some readers down. Jonah and Katherine find themselves on yet another journey through "broken" time. It's up to them, Andrea, and Dare (a dog) to fix time. And, of course things don't go smoothly for them!

The second was falling in by Frances O'Roark Dowell. Isabelle Bean has always felt different from everyone around her. On a seemingly ordinary day she opens a seemingly ordinary door and falls into an anything but ordinary world. She soon discovers that the village children flee from The Witch on a regular basis. Along the way Isabelle pairs up with Hen, a local girl. Throughout the story the narrator pauses the narrative to address the reader. It gives some insight into the story and is an interesting twist. Isabelle and Hen soon discover there is more to the story of The Witch and find themselves in the middle of a life-changing turn of events.

Guess what tomorrow is? Another SNOW DAY!!!!