You can now read the whole Stonewall Hinkleman review at: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6654849.html?industryid=47067

Or you can just enjoy this excerpt:
Stonewall is a likable character whose attitude changes for the better in the story…. A good choice for historical fiction fans.

Today was a freebie visit to a local school for some sort of reading week they were having. On my way there i realized I didn’t have my stuff and had to zoom back home and the back to town and just barely made it. Nobody there seemed to know who I was …  in fact they had a couple of books (not mine) picked out for me to read to the kids. The kids hadn’t been prepared for my visit by reading my book or even learning about it. I was basically a complete non-entity who suddenly appeared in their classroom.

Recipe for disaster? No way. It was a blast! Great kids and unusually enthusiastic teachers! (No teacher fell asleep this time!)

It was my first time reading to kids from “Stonewall Hinkleman and the Battle of Bull Run.” I think they liked it. I focused on his being a 21st-century kid/whiner and then his sudden appearance in the middle of the real battle.

 As for Qwikpick … it turned out that these kids had taken a field trip to the VERY SAME wastewater treatment plant that Lyle, Dave and Marilla visit. (However, their visit was post-Poop Fountain.)

I’ve said it before, but I may as well repeat it. There are few rewards for being a kidlit author, in fact their are many punishments – rejections, waits, slow book signings, etc…

But a good school visit can put you on top of the world!

I’ve received hundreds* of e-mails asking what happened to Stonewall week? Last week I announced the beginning of a week dedicated to our new book, Stonewall Hinkleman and the Battle of Bull Run. And we had a great post featuring our amazing cover art from Tuesday Mourning! But then … nothing.

Well, friends, I like to think that as long as there’s a kid out there somewhere on vacation with his parents and bored and grumpy and complaining, then Stonewall week will never truly end. It will always be Stonewall week … in our hearts.

So … what is our Civil War Time Travel Extravaganza all about? Well, here’s what it says on the back of the book:

Stonewall Hinkleman (yeah, that’s his real name) can’t stand going to historical reenactments with his parents, who are obsessed with the Civil War.

He has to wear a hot scratchy uniform, march around like an idiot and blow “Charge!” on his bugle. Lame! Whay would Stonewall want to pretend to fight in some old war just because his great-great-great-great-great uncle Cyrus got shot in the butt fighting for the South?

 Then, at the reenactment of the Battle of Bull Run, Stonewall finds himself transported back in time to the actual battle — and he’s not alone! Mr. Dupree, an ardent Confederate from Stonewall’s time, has traveled back in time to change the outcome of the whole Civil War.

And then there’s Ashby, Dupree’s rebellious daughter (and Stonewall’s secret crush), who’s traveled to the past by accident. Stonewall needs to use all of his knowledge of the battle, as well as help from Cyrus and Ashby, to stop Dupree and save the course of American history as we know it.

AND HE’S NOT ONE BIT HAPPY ABOUT IT.