On my drive to Mississippi, I listened to two books that totally wow-ed me, for completely different reasons.
The first was this one, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli.
I must first confess that, based on the cover, I thought Stargirl was a midgrade novel. So, when, in the first few sentences I heard John Ritter read to me that Leo the main character was entering 11th grade, I thought, huh. Really?
I loved this book for so many reasons. It is a tight, tense, yet QUIET story. And totally rocked my w
Published on August 20, 2009 04:35