Lemuria Bookstore Blog

The following review is by an 8th grader from St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. Millie is one of those readers that every librarian and book seller hopes will walk through their doors. She is an opinionated, voracious, choosy reader, and I love talking to her about books. She has read Anna Carey’s debut novel Eve, and [...]

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Ashley is another great reader from the Lemuria Book Owls Book Club. She is a smart reader and has reviewed the new book from writing duo Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie, Unleashed: I’ve read several books about werewolves and loved all of them. Unleashed was no exception. When Katelyn McBride moves to Arkansas from L.A. [...]

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Back in June, my middle grade girls book club, now formally called The Book Owls, begged me to read a series that they were in love with. They wrote me email proclaiming their love and worked hard to educate those who didn’t know what the series so they could win them over to the dark [...]

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Here is another review from one of Jackson’s smartest bunch of kids: the readers! Raveena is an 8th grader at St. Andrew’s and a member of Lemuria’s middle school girls book club (still working on it’s official name) and she is a lover of young adult romances. See what she has to say about Amy [...]

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Charley Hutchison is a 6th grader at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School and an amazing reader. His voracity for reading reminds me of my own at his age–I constantly was in trouble for reading under my desk while the teacher taught the lesson. Richard Paul Evans is best know for his adult novels such as The [...]

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When I think about books that stick with me, often I think of those books in school that made me fall in love with books (Wuthering Heights), or the ones that sparked my interest to begin with in childhood (Shiloh, The Borrowers), or the ones that I have devoured because of their amazing stories and [...]

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One of the best parts about my job is working with young people in our community. Claire Sykes, a 10th grader at St. Andrew’s, works in Oz with me during her Christmas and summer breaks and is a great reader. She has read Wither by Lauren Destefano and has been raving about it every since. [...]

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For those who don’t know me, my name is Emily Grossenbacher, and I am the Children’s Manager at Lemuria Books in Jackson. Lemuria Books is the only new independent bookstore in the Jackson Metro area and this year we are celebrating our 36th year! We are also trying to reach out to as many teachers [...]

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Ilsa J. Bick was just in front of a huge crowd at Ridgeland High School this morning. We thought we’d share a little bit of an interview done for the blog Random Acts of Reading–a great place to learn about kids and young adult books. Q. What inspired you to write about the apocalypse? Because [...]

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On Thursday, September 8th, the fun begins with Maggie and the Story Pirates as we host “Theodore Boone & the Thrill of Rights,” an interactive traveling bus tour based on John Grisham’s Theodore Boone series. At this point, you may be asking yourself, “Who are the Story Pirates? Who is Theodore Boone? What is the [...]

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