Liam Sullivan's Ideas and Reflections
Author: Mary Pope Osbourne
Title: Monday with a Mad Genius
Publication Info: New York : Random House, c2007.
Summary/Review:
Jack & Annie are given the mission to spend the day in Renaissance Florence helping Leonardo Da Vinci. It’s harder than it sounds but they’re persistent and participate in Leonardo’s science and art adventures, and even a little bit of magic and a mysterious smile. A good story!
Rating: ***
Author: Mary Pope Osbourne
Title: Stage Fright on a Summer Night
Publication Info: New York : Random House, 2002.
Summary/Review:
This may be my favorite Magic Tree House story yet. Jack & Annie travel to Elizabethan London and join Shakespeare on stage at the Globe Theatre where they learn the magic of theater. There’s a lot of great touches like Annie’s sympathy for a bear used in bear baiting and Jack’s stage fright.
Rating: ***1/2
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Title: Ghost Town at Sundown
Publication Info: New York : Random House, c1997.
Summary/Review:
Jack & Annie go back to the Old West and visit a ghost town with real ghosts! They also encounter some cattle rustlers and a kindly cowboy named Slim. It’s a fun adventure with a riddle to solve.
Rating: ***
Author: David A. Kelly
Title: The Philly Fake
Publication Info: Random House Books for Young Readers (2014)
Summary/Review:
This is a book in my son’s favorite “Ballpark Mystery Series.” Set at the Philadelphia Phillies ballpark, it’s a mystery that involves the Philly Phanatic and an evil Ben Franklin. Lots of fun Philly “Spirit of ’76” activities mixed in with baseball and mystery solving.
Rating: ***
Panorama of the Mountains 