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Book Review: Moon Over Manifest, by Clare Vanderpool

March 8, 2025 By Linda Jo Martin Leave a Comment

This novel takes place in Kansas during the Great Depression of the 1930’s.
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Book Review: The Family Under the Bridge, by Natalie Savage Carlson

March 5, 2025 By Linda Jo Martin Leave a Comment

Homeless children, their mother and an old hobo all find shelter under a bridge in Paris.
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Book Review: When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead

March 3, 2025 By Linda Jo Martin Leave a Comment

A city child of the nineteen-seventies studies time travel and copes with disappointment, while forging new friendships.
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Book Review: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village

March 24, 2023 By Linda Jo Martin 2 Comments

This book about medieval village life is a truly unique reading experience. There’s a lot of variety and information in the text.
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Last Stop on Market Street :: Linda Book Lady’s Review :: No Spoilers

February 19, 2021 By Linda Jo Martin Leave a Comment

City Bus

A picture book won the Newbery Medal in 2016. I always wondered why. Finally I did the reasonable thing. I purchased a copy of the book and read it. Wow! What an amazing picture book!
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About Me

I'm Linda Jo Martin, known as the Book Lady on YouTube. I'm the author of River Girl, a historical novel about a girl living in the Klamath River Valley in the 1920's. I'm also the author of the yet-to-be-published Antediluvian Adventures Series.

I tend to focus on the Newbery Medal list of middle grade and young adult novels, but may also review picture books and other children's literature.


This is my novel, available at Amazon only. It is for ages 8 to 15. It is a historical novel about a girl living in the Klamath River Valley of Northern California, c. 1920.

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