Chicks with Sticks

A cute book of friendship. Our heroine is trying to find her path following the loss of a treasured aunt. She finds that knitting is calming. Then she pulls in three other young girls and they become a knitting posse.......more

Reviewed by Cana Rensberger for TeensReadToo.com Fifteen-year-old Scottie has trains roaring through her dreams at night, resulting in hours of early morning insomnia. It's been like this since Aunt Roz's funeral. To make it worse, she's begun to feel like a stranger in her own home-turned-art galler......more

Scottie is a sophomore in high school who is going through a rough time—her favorite aunt in the world just died in a tragic accident, her parents act like they’re from another planet, and she and her best friend Amanda are no longer as close as they once were. She first encounters knitting while si......more

You have to understand what I have been through when it comes to fiction books featuring knitters. It has been, to put it mildly, ugly. This book is a clear demonstration of what I've been saying for a few years now. YA AUTHORS WORK HARDER. I don't know what is wrong with the adult authors of the wor......more

This book was given to me by a writer friend, because she knew that I enjoyed knitting (I also crochet). I have to say... when I first started reading it, I wasn't sure I'd like the story. However, once I got into the story and started meeting the rest of the characters, that all changed. I found my......more