30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty-Two

"Favorite book you own"

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

I picked this novel up in an old hippie bookstore in Maine last summer. Once I opened to the first page and began reading, it was impossible to put it down. It's an absolutely fabulous book about Calpurnia finding her voice and calling in the world in late 1800s-early 1900s America. READ IT!

30 Day Book Challenge: Day Eighteen

"A book that disappointed you"

Evolution, Me, & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande

I was really looking forward to this book, as it's rare to find books for youth about evolution. My hopes for this read included: the main character would come to the decision that evolution is real and gods aren't. The book sort of started off that way, but in the end I was disappointed to find the science teacher to be religious as well as the main character made some sort of weird twisty conclusion about evolution and creationism combined. I very disappointed. It had it's good parts, but over all, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone like me.