• Reviews

    Book Review: All's Faire in Middle School

    Synopsis: Imogene’s never been to a traditional school, she’s grown up with both her parents working at the Renaissance Faire and she’s more than ready to begin training as a squire and join the ranks of her family and friends each weekend as a real character at the Faire, but she’s also…

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    Book Review: Race to the Bottom of the Sea

    Synopsis: Fidelia loves nothing more than spending time with her marine biologist parents, Dr. and Dr. Quail on the water tagging sharks, gathering new specimens and inventing new machines. But, when her parents die in a tragic accident in Fidelia’s own submarine invention, she is racked with guilt and grief. Soon,…

  • Lists

    Top Ten Tuesday: Unique Book Titles

    I went with play-on-word titles or titles that have words that don’t belong together (or maybe don’t make sense together) and other titles that are just unexpected. I haven’t read most of these books, so they’ll get put on my TBR list too!

  • Lists

    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/23/17

    This week I read some really great middle grade titles – Race to the Bottom of the Sea by Lindsay Eagar, All’s Faire In Middle School by Victoria Jamieson, Ban This Book by Alan Gratz, and Posted by John David Anderson. These titles were all very well written and ones that I can’t wait…

  • Reviews

    Book Review: The Littlest Bigfoot

    Synopsis: Alice lives life almost invisibly – her family ships her off to school, she doesn’t have a single friend and she knows that she isn’t pretty with her big, bulky frame and her wild hair she calls a mane. So when she saves Millie Maximus’s life at her eighth boarding…

  • Lists

    Top Ten Tuesday: Yummy Foods Mentioned In Books

    A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd – Blackberry Sunrise Ice Cream A Tangle of Knots by Lisa Graff- Cady’s Chocolate-Almond-Cherry Cake The Candymakers by Wendy Mass – Oozing Crunchorama Pie by Sarah Weeks – Key Lime Pie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl – Ever-Lasting Gobstoppers Close…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/16/17

    I was surprisingly able to get a little reading done last week, even with how busy I was. I read What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold and The Littlest Bigfoot by Jennifer Weiner and started Race to the Bottom of the Sea by Lindsay Eagar. I’ve got some catching up to…

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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 10/9/17

    I kicked butt reading this weekend. You know how when you eat a really great meal and you feel full, but so good? Well, that’s how I felt reading this weekend. I started out the week reading The Librarian and the Spy by Susan Mann, a romance novel a coworker told me…

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    Book Review: The List

    Synopsis: This science fiction, dystopian novel opens with Letta transcribing a list of words. Soon, we learn that Letta’s community, the Ark, only has a pre-approved List from which to communicate – 500 words. Specialized workers receive additionals words in order to do their job. But, when Letta’s master disappears under…

  • Lifestyle

    #MGBooktober

    If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram, you’ve probably seen a few posts with the hashtag #mgbooktober. Celebrate with me as people around the world share their favorite middle grade titles during the month of October. It’s not too late to start, so check the chart below, share the…