Good morning! It's a beautiful day in the Ozarks: Spring is officially here, and Easter is just around the corner! (No, the picture was not ...

We thought we'd kick off our new partnership with Megan and Betsy with a few Easter book recommendations.  (If you missed their introduction, read about ...

As Janie announced yesterday in this post, we've got some big changes afoot here at Redeemedreader.   We have the honor of welcoming Megan Saben and ...

****THIS BOOK GIVEAWAY IS OVER.  BUT THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED! **** As Emily promised a couple of weeks ago, we have some exciting news ...

My mother-in-law once observed how different life would be if we didn’t have to eat.  She might have been having a bad day, because in ...

Introduction Last week I had the happy opportunity of watching Disney's new Oz the Great and Powerful.  I had to turn around a review that ...

These three books have nothing in common except their general category and the fact that the first two won honors in the ALA Youth Media ...

The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus #3), by Rick Riordan.  Hyperion, 2012, 608 pages. Reading Level: Middle Grades, ages 10-12 Maturity Level: 4 (ages ...

Zeus, King of the Gods, (#1 in The Olympians graphic-novel series) by George O’Connor.  First Second, 2012, 80 pages. Reading Level: Picture books (graphic novel), ...

The Adventures of Achilles, by Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden, illustrated by Carole Henaff.  Barefoot Books, 2012, 96 pages. Reading Level: Middle Grades, ages10-12 Maturity ...

Introduction With the popularity of Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus series , kids' books containing themes and allusions to Greek and Roman mythology and culture ...

It’s what every child has to do, and they accomplish it with varying degrees of success.  In a sense, "growing up" is the theme of ...