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Varsha Seshan

Counting by 7s

June 4, 2022 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

As part of the Neev Literature Festival’s reading challenge, I’ve been attending as many author interactions as I can. I love them! One session I attended last month was with […]

Filed Under: Books, Children Tagged With: Counting by 7s, Holly Goldberg Sloan, Middle-Grade Fiction, reading, review

Top Nine Middle Grade Books I Read in 2020

January 3, 2021 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I love middle grade reads, so this is my longest list this year. In no particular order, here are the books to which I gave a five-star rating in 2020. […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Across the Line, All of Me, Eva Ibbotson, Holly Goldberg Sloan, Kate Darnton, Katherine Rundell, Listen to the Moon, Lois Lowry, Meg Wolitzer, Michael Morpurgo, middle-grade, Nayanika Mahtani, Number the Stars, Out of My Mind, Sharon M Draper, The Good Thieves, The Misfits, The Star of Kazan, To Night Owl from Dogfish, Venita Coelho

To Night Owl From Dogfish

November 30, 2020 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Book cover Text: To Night Owl from Dogfish Holly Goldberg Sloan & Meg Wolitzer New York Times Bestselling Authors Image: Illustration of an owl in a triangle and, upside down, a dogfish in a triangle

I love epistolary novels. I think I’ve always loved them; they intrigue me. Off the top of my head, I think about Dear Mrs Naidu, Ketchup Clouds, Daddy Long-Legs and […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Holly Goldberg Sloan, Meg Wolitzer, Middle-Grade Fiction, reading, review, To Night Owl from Dogfish