March was an extremely busy month for all of us. M finally came home. We had a nice trip to Kansas City for spring break. We had stuff going on every weekend. April doesn’t look to be much different; there’s just something about things picking up when things get warm outside.

I handed both M and C this one after I finished it, and wouldn’t tell them much more than “It’s a old-money rich family, it’s set on an island in the summer, and something terrible happened.”

A third of the way through, C said, “I’m only reading this because you won’t tell me how it ends!” and when she finished it, she tossed it across the room, only half in disgust. M, on the other hand, thought the ending was brilliant and Lockhart masterful. At the very least, it’s given the three of us something to talk about.

As a side note, C said her Language Arts class is doing a historical fiction book report and they were in the library looking for books. She helped several of her classmates find books, recommending Code Name Verity, Stealing Home, 47, and Bloody Jack.She picked out When Molly was a Harvey Girl for herself (which was a Cybils book a few years ago that I liked enough to keep) though we’ve also stuck Ten Cents a Dance on hold at the library for her. (One of the requirements was that they haven’t read it before, which bummed her out, because her favorite book is The Bad Queen.) She’s an awesome bookseller/librarian. 🙂

A has been working through the Fablehaven series. She’s actually quite glad she didn’t have to wait upon ending the fourth book; it was a bit of a cliffhanger. I have no idea what she’s going to read when she finishes the last one.

And K has discovered Dragon Breath.

She’s enthralled with the series, even asking for the books for her birthday. She thinks it’s awesome.

Our book for the book group this month is this one:

I haven’t been able to convince A to read it (I think K might like it better) so I’m hoping that more people will come. I gave a presentation to the elementary school librarians (if you’re interested, you can see the books I talked about here), which included a plug for my book group. And I actually got a flyer out to them as well. I’m crossing my fingers for Saturday.

Have your kids read anything fun lately?