This is Sadie by Sara O'Leary

Sadie is a lovely little girl with a wonderful imagination and she loves to have fun.  Sometimes her friends are characters from the books she reads and imagines herself within the story.  Sometimes her friends are people who live on her street.  Where some people might just see a box; Sadie sees a boat.  Sadie can't see wings on her back but she knows they are there.  Do you have wings?

This is Sadie is a new book that will be published in May by Tundra books.  I was fortunate to receive an e-book copy from NetGalley.  I loved the character of Sadie.  She has such a wonderful imagination.  Her creativity seems to be fuelled by reading books.  My favourite page in the book is when Sadie is looking at her wings and the author asks the reader if we have wings too.  Love it!  The illustrations by Julie Morstad were perfect.  A lovely picture book that I will be certain to add to my library shelves this spring.  Sara O'Leary is a Canadian author and I believe this book could be showing up on next year's Blue Spruce list.

The Glittering World by Robert Levy

I received an e-copy of The Glittering World  by Robert Levy from NetGalley.  Michael "Blue" Whitley's grandmother has just passed away and left him her home.  Blue and three friends make the trek from New York to Nova Scotia to visit Blue's birthplace.  He doesn't remember much about living in Nova Scotia.  He was 6 when he left.  On their first night in town they are greeted by some locals and join in on a party with them.  Blue has a history of drug use, but even he seems surprised when he appears to lose hours of time at the party.

That's about as far as I got.  The story started to take some weird twists and turns and it turned out to be not really my type of story.  I think the book is very well written.  I debated whether to write a review or not.  I felt it deserved a mention on the blog even though it wasn't my style.  To begin with, the cover is stunning.  I loved it.  The problem for me was that I didn't realize it was going to go down the fantasy path.  The first few chapters drew me in and then I found myself scanning Goodreads to find out where this was going.  I picked up a different book and sadly there's just no going back to this one for me.  But that's just me.  I hope it lands in the right reader's hands.  It deserves to be read and loved.

Walking on Trampolines by Frances Whiting

 Walking on Trampolines by Frances Whiting is the ultimate coming-of-age story.  Lulu and her best friend, Annabelle, are joined at the hip growing up.  The friends share everything including a language of their own.  But their friendship is tested again and again when they let a boy come between them.  Walking on Trampolines is the story of Lulu growing up and accepting herself for who she is.  She isn't perfect and she`s made some mistakes but she`s a good person deep down and she needs to learn to love herself and forgive in order for her to move on and love again.

I really enjoyed Walking on Trampolines.  Lulu was a character easy to love despite her one night of horrible judgement.  I enjoyed reading about the relationships she had with her family and friends.


I received an eGalley of Walking on Trampolines by Frances Whiting from NetGalley.