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The Grand Tour By: Patricia C. Wrede & Caroline Stevermer So I picked this one up because I liked the cover, it involves magic, England and 2 female cousins with spunky attitudes. When I read the blurb on the back cover I thought it might be the 2...
The Lost Conspiracy By: Frances Hardinge Hardinge is a gifted writer. I get insanely jealous when I read her books because I love them, can’t put them down, and want to poke through her brain to see how she comes up with the ideas for her stories. That...
Arch Enemy The Looking Glass Wars By: Frank Beddor As I finish The Looking Glass Wars Trilogy I am left with a sense of completion, as well as a bit of bewilderment. Let me explain: I love Alice in Wonderland and pretty much anything to do with it. I...
Forest Born The Books of Bayern By: Shannon Hale This is the latest in Hales series focusing on Bayern. ( The Goose Girl , Enna Burning , and River Secrets are the previous three.) In this book we meet Rin, the little sister of Razo (from River Secrets...
Masterpiece By: Elise Broach Do you know a child that’s a little quiet and shy, and that doesn’t have many friends or possible a stressful home life? If so, then this book is for them! James lives with his mom, stepfather and new baby brother. He doesn...
Lips Touch: Three Times By: Laini Taylor Illustrated By: Jim Di Bartolo Or for the love of holy Hannah do I hope this husband and wife continue to team up on books! I recently posted about Silksinger , and this is a book by the same duo. There is a major...
When You Reach Me By: Rebecca Stead It’s the late ‘70s and Miranda and her mom are living in an apartment in New York City. Miranda’s experiencing changes in her life with her friends. She’s not sure why, but her one and only friend Sal has started to...
Dreamdark: Silksinger By: Laini Taylor Taylor’s first book, Blackbringer , is the first story in this series (and no, I’m sorry, I don’t know how many there will be) in which we meet Magpie Windwitch, the Djinn’s champion. In Silksinger , Taylor brings...
Fire By: Kristin Cashore Fire will intrigue you, entice you, shock you, and enchant you. You really won’t be able to put this one down, because as soon as Cashore gives you a hint of what’s to come, something else happens that takes your entire being...
The Road to Oz: Twists, Turns, Bumps and Triumphs in the Life of L. Frank Baum By: Kathleen Krull Illustrated By: Kevin Hawkes Pretty much every single American has seen or read The Wizard of Oz . How many of us know anything about the man who wrote the...
Catching Fire By: Suzanne Collins Do you remember The Hunger Games and how it the book ended? Have you been waiting and waiting and waiting like I have for the sequel? Well wait no more, as it’s out and just as good, if not better, than the first book...
11 Planets: A New View of the Solar System By: David A. Aguilar Really? 11 planets? I’m still trying to wrap my head around the whole Pluto is a dwarf planet thing, then I find out there’s two new dwarf planets called Ceres and Eris. Did you know that...
From Russia with Lunch By: Bruce Hale Although this is the 14 th Chet Gecko mystery, I didn’t feel as if I’d missed out on a lot of the history. Basically, a Gecko and his mockingbird friend, Natalie, solve mysteries as they come up. This book focuses...
A Recipe 4 Robbery By: Marybeth Kelsey Oh is this one fun! The story focuses around the Bloomsberry Cucumber Festival and the Tarts, the women who run it. The festival is a celebration of vegetables (there's the fried unhealthy goodness available...
Dessert First By: Hallie Durand Illustrated By: Christine Davenier First of all, I love that the main character is called Dessert. Secondly, I love that her teacher's name is Mrs. Howdy Doody and that she puts on white snowball slippers in the classroom...
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