It is already August and I'm finishing up reading the Maud Hart Love Lace Picks for this fall. If you liked the Egypt Game, by Zilphan Keattey Snyder, you will enjoy The Headless Cupid. I did! The characters are realistic, but not predictable. I liked the author's humor. She allows the children in the story to use their own understanding of magic to respond to their new sister's preoccupation with the occult. I recommend this book as a good read-a-loud.

I read the Princess Academy, last spring and did not enjoy it. I liked the beginning, but the story seemed weighed down with repetition. It was predictable and because of that a disapointment.