Builta's Best
Everyone knows that Mrs. Builta loves to read and talk about books. So in this column (hopefully updated often), she will tell you about some of her favorites.
Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings is a book with so many components....adventure, heroics, suspense and loyalty...that it compells you to keep reading it and enjoying it all the way to its powerful conclusion. How close are you to your friends? Do you really know what they are like? How much do you trust them and vice versa?
Defiance by Valerie Hobbs features a boy named Toby. He is on vacation with his mother (while his dad continues to work in the city) and wants to do fun,exciting things that can help him escape the reality of his life as a cancer patient. He meets Pearl, a 94 year old poet, and her special cow, Blossom, and begins to learn about true courage.
Flush by Carl Hiaasen finds Noah visiting his father, in jail for trying to sink a gambling boat near the family's home in Florida. Noah's father is certain that the owner of the boat is flushing the boat's toilets directly into the water instead of having the contents hauled to a sewage treatment plant. There is no immediate proof against the owner. Noah and his sister Abbey vow to prove that their father is right. Many dangerous adventures and family surprises develop in this exciting book by the author of Hoot.
The Penderwicks was recently awarded the National Book Award for young adults. It is a great story about a family of four daughters , who, along with their father, take a very special vacation one summer. They meet incredible people and become ever closer as they each deal with the death of the girls' mother. The book is the first written by its author, Jeanne Birdsall.
Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke, is a marvelous story! Meggie lives with her father Mo, a repairer and restorer of valuable and well-loved books. (Meggie’s mother went away when she was little.) Meggie and Mo have always shared a love of books and reading, but Mo will no longer read TO Meggie. She does not understand!