Poetry Friday Round-Up
Hi! Welcome to Becky's Book Reviews. I'm happy to be hosting this week's Poetry Friday round-up. Please leave a link in the comments. I'll be rounding up throughout the day as I can.© Becky Laney of Becky's Book ReviewsIf

The Sound of Music
A Classic Collectible Pop-Up: The Sound of Music. By Rodgers & Hammerstein and Lindsay & Crouse. Adapted by Bert Fink. Illustrated by Dan Andreasen. Paper Engineering by Bruce Foster. 2009. Simon & Schuster. October 2009. 14 pages.If you love the Sound of Music, then this really is a must-have. I love, love, love the Sound of Music. So this book made me giddy. Very, very giddy. In the must-show-to-all-m

Black Angels (MG, YA)
Brown, Linda Beatrice. 2009. Black Angels. Penguin. 260 pages.Luke took the key out of the sideboard drawer in the dining room, took a rifle and put the key back very carefully.Luke is a slave contemplating running away. He hopes to join up with the Union army. He isn't quite sure where or how. But he's ready to go off on an adventure. When he sets out initially, he is hoping to meet up with ot

Bystander (MG)
Preller, James. 2009. Bystander. Feiwel and Friends. 226 pages.The first time Eric Hayes ever saw him, David Hallenback was running, if you could call it that, running in a halting, choppy-stepped, stumpy-legged shamble, slowing down to look back over his shoulder, stumbling forward, pausing to catch his breath, then lurching forward again.Bystander is a book about bullying. Eric, our narrator,

Arabella
Heyer, Georgette. 1949/2009. Arabella. Sourcebooks. 312 pages.The schoolroom in the parsonage at Heythram was not a large apartment, but on a bleak January day, in a household where the consumption of coals was a consideration, this was not felt by its occupants to be a disadvantage.Arabella Tallant, a young country girl, has been invited by her godmother to London. She's to have her season, an