He took great pleasure in teasing her; he’d decided that Bee was no name for a person, and that it must just be the first letter of her real name. So every time he came in, he addressed her by a new and awful name that started with B.
Tag: upper middle grade
Show & Tell – Reading Blues
Question of the Day: What makes you pick up a book off the shelf?
Favorite Fiction – The Secrets of Solace
I love reading books that blend themes together. I’m not normally big on SciFi, but mix it with some Fantasy and I’m sold!
Question of the Day: What are your favorite blended genre books?
Show & Tell – Curiosities
Question of the Day: What book would you love to see illustrated?
Quote of the Day – Howl’s Moving Castle
In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three.
–Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Quote of the Day – Serafina and the Black Cloak
She was beginning to see how difficult it was to determine who was good and who was bad, who she could trust and who she had to watch out for. Every person was a hero in his own mind, fighting for what he thought was right, or just fighting to survive another day, but no one thought they were evil.
–Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty
Quote of the Day – The League of Beastly Dreadfuls
Victory zinged through her veins, sweet and bubbly as sarsaparilla, as she gazed upon her first major find as an aspiring detective-veterinarian-artist.
