Too Many Books

Of course, as one of my tee shirts says, there’s no such thing as too many books. But I often blog about books I especially like for kids, and this week I can’t choose between four of them. They’re all fairly new because my local library got quite a few new books recently.

Have Sword, Will Travel by Garth Nix and Sean Williams is sci-fi. I love that the magic, talking swords have personalities. Of course the human characters do too, and they have an exciting adventure.

Who Killed Darius Drake by Norman Philbrick is about a geeky kid who gets swept into solving a mystery. Kids can identify with all the characters in this book, and the plot is fascinating.

Another of these good books is Betty Before X. It’s a fictionalized biography of the childhood of a girl who grows up to become the wife of Malcom X, and the book brings the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1940s to life.

And How Oscar Indigo Broke The Universe (And Put It Back Together Again) Is a fun science fiction story about baseball that takes place in today’s world. Kids who enjoy sports and/or sci-fi will love this book.

Now I need to head back out to the Library and find some more good books.