Reviews written by Kimberly Pauley

Elias (Eli, but only to his friend Honoria), Shohei, and Honoria have always been best friends. They all attend the prestigous and quirky Peshtigo School where you're apt to find students up to all kinds of mischief, all in the name of learning. Eli is the last...

This is the coolest book ever. I mean it. If I could justify keeping this book for myself, I would, but instead I'm going to send it to a very special niece (but don't despair, I'll be giving away some copies in December '05, so stay tuned!). They label it...

I liked Sam in the original All-American Girl novel and I actually like her even more now, in the sequel Ready or Not. Unlike Mia in the Princess Diaries series, Sam is a bit naive, but not totally clueless when it comes to dating. She and...

It is plain amazing to me that boys live to grow up to be men. The stories my husband has told me about his childhood games just amaze me while I was making mud pies, he was blowing things up. In How Angel Peterson Got His Name, Gary Paulsen...

In this third book in The A-List series, Anna thinks she's about to be fired as an intern (which she is), but she stands up for herself anyway. Clark, Cammie's agent dad, hears her stand up to Margaret and cancels the firing and hires her himself to be his intern...

Rusty Cooper and Joey Banks are best friends and have sworn never to tell on each other about any number of things, including the time Joey's privates got attacked by a crappie in their favorite swimming hole. But some secrets are bigger than others. The biggest difference...

Trace's mom has never been a 'normal' mother. A groupie in the 1980's and an avid listener to has-been bands, she is now a famous romance author. Bebe and Trace have a great relationship, except for one thing. She won't tell Trace who her father is, saying that they're doing...

This is one of those books that you continue to think about after you have finished it. It stayed with me, I suppose literally 'clawing' its way into my brain. It wasn't at all what I thought it would be. Jed Berg has it all. Fancy house,...

I enjoyed this book much more than I thought I would. I'm not a huge fan of wrestling (the real kind&though I'm even less of a fan of the professional fake stuff) and I don't know much about it (well, I didn't, but I'll get to that later). The only...

I'll come right out and say it -- I'm normally not very fond of books by celebritys-turned-authors because a fair amount of them (I won't name names) would never have become books if a celebrity hadn't written them. There, I said it. However, Jason Alexander's Dad, Are You the Tooth...

I readily devoured this book in just a few hours, even sneaking off to read it right after dinner (and thereby missing the dishwashing, a win-win, in my opinion). I read a lot of books and when I say 'a lot' I mean hundreds a year. I average more than...

I stayed up late one night reading Storky: How I Lost My Nickname and Won the Girl, D. L. Garfinkle's first book. That happens more often than my husband would like (he's always going "when are you coming to bed??), but not as often as it used to. Told through...

To say that I know very little about anime is being kind. I know practically nothing about it. I don't know what the difference between anime and manga is. I don't know who any of the characters are or what the heck they do with those big huge swords, much...

When we first meet Carrie, the protagonist of Lucky T, she is a self-absorbed, selfish and very superstitious girl. Her luckiest possession is a t-shirt that her dad (now absentee and divorced from her mother) gave her. When her mother accidentally gives the shirt away to a charity group, Carrie...

Rachel's little sister Miri seems to be the one that gets everything first, even though she's younger. For instance, her chest outgrew her sisters and how fair is that? But even worse, now it turns out Miri has inherited their mother's magic powers and Rachel hasn't! What's...