book reviews REVIEW: The Daughter of Auschwitz: The Girl Who Lived to Tell Her Tale, by Tova Friedman January 25, 2025 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment Tova Friedman here recounts her own story as one of the youngest children to survive Auschwitz’s during the Holocaust, framed as a retelling to a friend she has met and trusts in New York, after World War II. The book is an ostensibly middle reader version of Friedman’s adult book of the same, told from […] Read more » children's books Holocaust Middle Reader
book reviews Review of BRIDGE TO BAT CITY December 21, 2023 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment Bridge to Bat City, by Ernest Cline, illustrations by Mishka Westell. Little Brown, 308 pp., hardcover $17.99, publication date April 2024. Ages 8 to 12. Review by Mae Vincent 10/28/23 Bridge to Bat City is a fun adventure about a girl named Opal who loses her mom and moves in with her uncle. The pair […] Read more » Middle Reader
