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    Book Review: Book Scavenger

    Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman is my favorite type of story – focused around books and a treasure hunt!  Emily moves to San Francisco with her family and meets James, a next door neighbor who loves puzzles as much as she does.  She’s excited to be in the hometown of…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/24/15

    I don’t know what happened this week, but I got very little reading accomplished.  I was expecting to read a lot on Monday (I had the day off) but instead ended up at a pop-up concert with Stevie Wonder in Philadelphia.  It was a lot of fun, very hot, and…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

    I started off the week with a light read called, Clayton Stone, At Your Service which was a fun, adventure story about a young boy who finds out his family works for the secret service. It’s not necessarily an earth-shattering story, but a quick story, perfect for a reluctant reader. The…

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    It's Monday, What Are You Reading? 7/27/15

    I got a lot of reading done this week, mostly because I read a few shorter books and one that I didn’t want to put down.  This week I read Friends for Life by Andrew Norriss about a boy who becomes friends with a ghost who has a reason for being there and…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

    This week I was able to get back on track with three books I read!  The first book I read was called The Entirely True Story of the Unbelievable FIB by Adam Shaughnessy.  A great story for those kids looking for mythology books – a specific focus on Norse mythology as…

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    Book Review: Seven Wild Sisters

    Seven Wild Sisters: A Modern Fairy Tale by Charles De Lint is actually a companion novel to The Cats of Tanglewood Forest (which I never realized until after I read this one) and Seven Wild Sisters can easily stand on its own.  Reminiscent of a classic fairy tale story, Sarah…

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    The Iron Trial

    I’m still battling a wicked cold/flu thing that forced me to spend time relaxing this weekend, which allowed me to get a lot of reading done!  And boy, did it feel great!  I finished The Iron Trial by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare and read all of I am Malala:…

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    Shiver Me Timbers…

    It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day!  And with that being said, here’s my (condensed) list of must-read pirate books!  I could have gone on forever, but I’ll hold back and list only ten. Dirty Joe the Pirate: A Tue Story by Bill Harley You can’t go wrong when it…

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    Book Review: Loot: How to Steal a Fortune

    Loot  is exactly what Jude Watson does best – action-packed, fast-paced and adventure wrapped up in a story you can’t put down.  When March’s father, a notorious cat burglar dies on the job, March must finish one last job.  His father’s dying words to March, “Find jewels,” and it’s only…