Bridget's Books

This blog is being used for a requirement for LS 5653, Multicultural Literature for Children and YA at TWU. Book reviews will be posted dur...

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo is the story of ten year-old India Opal Bulone’s struggle to make friends after her preacher father ...

The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker by Cynthia DeFelice is the story of a twelve-year old losing his family to consumption in 1849. After ...

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is the emotional story of Melinda Sordino’s freshman year of high school. After calling 911 at an end of th...

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine uses the Cinderella story to tell Ella’s struggle to free herself from a “blessing” given to her at bir...

Cindy Ellen - A Wild Western Cinderella by Susan Lowell takes Cinderella to the wide-open range of the west. In typical Cinderella fashion ...

The Talking Eggs retold by Robert D. San Souci tells the story of a mean mother and two daughters, Rose; mean and spiteful like her mother a...