I think Beauty (Robin McKinley) is excellent, and I love Ella Enchanted (Gail Carson Levine). I think I’ve mentioned before that I really adore re-tellings of classic or widely-known stories. This is a fun book and is the first book in the Peter and the Starcatchers series. Even at eleven-years-old, I trust his advice, so a few weeks ago (I clearly don’t trust his advice in a TIMELY manner), I picked up the first one at the library. Then, when I went home for Christmas, my brother was reading the second of Dave Barry’s juvenile books, called “ Peter and the Shadow Thieves.” I asked him how they were, and he raved about them. I love his non-fiction columns, so I was less interested in his fictional books. For some reason, though, I’ve never read his novels, Big Trouble and Tricky Business. I’ve read practically every column he’s ever written and most of his books. My parents both adore Dave Barry, as does my grandmother, and they’ve been reading or handing off various columns and books of his to me for as long as I can remember.
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