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Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray – Linda Book Lady’s Review :: Spoiler Free

July 11, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin 2 Comments

Adam of the Road, by Elizabeth Janet Gray Vining

A young boy’s travels through 13th century England in search of his father and his dog.
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Let Your Writing Talent Grow Naturally

July 4, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin 2 Comments

Seedling

You can be a writer if you decide to let your writing talents develop naturally. It doesn’t matter how old you are, or where you live, or what you do for a living, or how much money you have, or how many children you have.
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Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle – Linda Book Lady’s Review :: Spoiler Free

June 27, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin 2 Comments

Goat-Ears of Emperor Trojan

Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings is a lovely, lively, bi-cultural poetic memoir about a girl growing up in Los Angeles. Her mother is Cuban and her father’s family came from the Ukraine.
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One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia – Linda Book Lady’s Review :: Spoiler Free

June 20, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin 1 Comment

One Crazy Summer

In One Crazy Summer, three young girls travel by plane from New York City to Oakland, California to visit their mother for a month.
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Writers Read – That’s What They Do

June 13, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin 4 Comments

Writers Read Books

Writers read; this is non-negotiable. It is how we learn to write. I’ve always been a reader, ever since that magical moment, which I still clearly remember, when my first grade teacher asked us to open our spelling workbooks and write, “I am.” It didn’t take me long to find delight in turning the sounds of my language into written words.
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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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