Stone Soup Magazine
— Inside Out and Back Again, by Thanhha Lai; HarperCollins Children’s Books: New York, 2011; $16.99 Last year, my family and I moved from Florida to West Virginia and it was...
— A girl recounts the night her beloved family country home burned down, leaving her with physical and emotional scars that teach her about loss and memory.
— Runners collapse together in winter snow, their bodies folding into each other like marionettes, transforming exhaustion into shared laughter and connection.
— The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, by Trenton Lee Stewart; Little, Brown and Company: New York, 2012; $17.99 The first thing I noticed about this book was that it is...
— A tomboy navigates her first softball practice, struggling between her natural hitting ability and a coach's instructions that don't feel right to her.
— A boy battles nighttime fears as ordinary sounds transform into terrifying threats, until controlled breathing finally brings sleep.
— A girl secretly cares for a wolf in the woods, sneaking out at night to bring him food, until a forest fire takes his life and she discovers he left...
— A girl obsessed with reading 200 books to become a novelist discovers through her younger cousin that living life provides better inspiration than hiding in stories.
— During wartime, a boy trains doves to carry messages and inadvertently saves his occupied city when the birds reach the wrong army unit, though his father never returns.
— A girl reluctant to accept a new piano teacher after her grandmother's death discovers she can honor memories while embracing new beginnings through music.