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Kids’ Review: Smile
I’m going to try starting a new aspect of my blog with some of the kids I know at the library reviewing books they love (or don’t!). My first reviewer is “S”, a coworker’s daughter who I’ve known for a number of years. She’s in middle school now and is…
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Review: The Girl Who Drank the Moon
I received a copy of The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill as an ARC from Workman Publishing with a note that said “This. Book. Is. Sooooo. Good!” And I’m inclined to agree. At 400 pages, it’s a rather lengthy middle grade fantasy novel, but it was so fun…
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Kids' Review: Bake Sale
I’m going to try starting a new aspect of my blog with some of the kids I know at the library reviewing books they love (or don’t!). My first reviewer is “S”, a coworker’s daughter who I’ve known for a number of years. She’s in middle school now and is…
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Book Review: Wolf Hollow
“The year I turned twelve, I learned how to lie. The year I turned twelve, I learned that what I said and did mattered.” And with those words, you’ll meet Annabelle a 12-year old girl, living in rural Pennsylvania in the early 1940s. Her life is fairly simple, helping her…
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Book Review: The Nameless City
You may have heard me say before that graphic novels are not my favorite format to read. I read very quickly and it’s almost as if the images get in the way of the text. But, I appreciate graphic novels and although I may not be drawn to them, many…
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Book Review: Soar
Jeremiah has been dealt a difficult hand from the get-go, abandoned as a baby and later diagnosed with a heart condition requiring a heart transplant at the age of 11. And that’s where his dreams of playing baseball are put on hold. Jeremiah can’t play baseball, he can’t even run…
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Book Review: The Nest
I am not a huge fan of horror fiction… it scares me just a little too much. Coraline was absolutely frightening, Doll Bones terrified me and even though I’ve met Mary Downing Hahn, I didn’t have to guts to tell her I’ve never read her work because I hate being scared.…
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Book Review: Symphony For the City of the Dead
I’ll be honest, this book took me a while to read. Not because it was boring, it was very informative and fairly dense. But, I now feel lke I know a lot more about the eastern front of World War II against Nazi Germany than I ever did. This is…
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Book Review: Last of the Sandwalkers
I had no idea what to expect when I opened up Jay Hosler’s Last of the Sandwalkers. I’m not a huge fan of graphic novels, mainly, I think, because I am a very quick reader and I think that the format slows me down a little and I really don’t spend…
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Book Review: On the Run
I loved Hatchet by Gary Paulsen when I read it in elementary school. The survival aspect fascinated me and I couldn’t stop turning the pages to find out what happened to Brian as he faced the Canadian wilderness. So when I read the description of On the Run, I expected something similar,…