Books by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
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review 1: This book is very boring, I know I shouldn't have, but i skipped a whole bunch of chapters before I stopped reading completely. All the characters do is talk for such a long time i could have just fallen asleep. I couldn't help but think that the author was stalling before she go...
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review 1: This is a story about two different teenagers moving to a new school and dealing with recent life changing loss in their lives and how they adjust to their new school and the differences between their experiences. I feel as though this book had a lot of potential that it just di...
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review 1: This YA novel was fun! Set in the 19th century, it is the story of a young woman who wants to go to school and the young man with whom she has been raised who does not want to. Bet, being a clever girl, comes up with a plan. Will, over the summer, will teach her how to behave lik...
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review 1: The first in a series of nine books about a set of soon 7 year old octuplets whose parents go missing. The sisters must come into their own each discovering their power and a gift in order to survive without their parents and ultimately discover what happened to them. The first...
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review 1: Both my daughters love this new series starring eight eight-year-old sisters, mystery, adventure, and a huge dose of humor. The Huit sisters live in an unusual house, shared with eight unusual cats. In the way of multiples, the sisters find ways to distinguish themselves from o...
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review 1: In the Author's Note at the end of this book, Lauren Baratz-Logsted basically excuses herself by saying that, if things in her book seem to come out of nowhere completely at random, that's just because it's written episodically, just like Little Women! I would have screamed, but...
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review 1: Both my daughters love this new series starring eight eight-year-old sisters, mystery, adventure, and a huge dose of humor. The Huit sisters live in an unusual house, shared with eight unusual cats. In the way of multiples, the sisters find ways to distinguish themselves from o...
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review 1: The Bro-Magnet entertained from start to finish. The protagonist is a goofball, but a lovable goofball that you really root for. He is accompanied by an assortment of quirky characters that color the story in a way that is hilarious without going over the top. Most of the comedy ...
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review 1: 2007 Jun 03delightfulBoth my daughters love this new series starring eight eight-year-old sisters, mystery, adventure, and a huge dose of humor. The Huit sisters live in an unusual house, shared with eight unusual cats. In the way of multiples, the sisters find ways to distingu...
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review 1: My granddaughter, her mother and I just finished this book. As DGD is just learning to read, we read it out loud to her, laughing and being (slightly) scared along the way. I know the blurbs say this is for the middle grades, but I and others have noted it works very well for t...
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review 1: Less than 24 hours after receiving our copies, the eldest and I have already finished it, and I've read the first 20 pages aloud to the KitKatPandaBatWolf. Oh, we love these books. And this morning I realized why. Unlike so many books for the new novel reader (those Daisy Mead...
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review 1: My eyes bleed every time the dialog tag "said" is used in place of "asked." Questions are so cool they have their own punctuation--so it's pretty easy to identify one, what with the question mark and all. So when someone asks something, like, say, "Why are you still reading those...
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review 1: I can't even pretend to be impartial in my review. I've loved this series from the onset, my eldest, now thirteen has likewise, also my youngest, now ten. The series has been wacky, entertaining, funny, clever, and all around tremendous fun from the onset, and this culmination di...