Love.
LOVE.
LOVE!
If you haven’t read this year’s Newbery winning book THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN by Katherine Applegate, please remedy this situation. This is an amazing book in so many ways.
THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN — Go read this extraordinary book right now
I loved it too, Amber (and raved about it also on my blog last year.) http://middlegrademafioso.blogspot.com/2012/03/marvelous-middle-grade-monday-one-and.html
It is quite fab, and now she’s writing a nonfiction companion to it!
It reminded me most of THE UNDERNEATH, which I also adored even through the tears.