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    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 8/31/15

    I got through a good number of books this week!  I really enjoyed Currents  by Jane Petrlik Smolik, a story interwoven between three young girls in the mid 1800s.  I have always loved historical fiction and this book was really interesting!   The next book I read was called  The Education of Ivy Blake…

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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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    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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    A Snicker of Magic

    This has got to be my favorite book this year!  I finished this story yesterday and it’s still filling up my mind (making my newest read that more difficult!), but it’s difficult for me to leave such an enchanting story on the shelf!  A Snicker of Magic is about twelve-year-old…

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    The Raven Boys

    I finally had the chance to read Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Boys and I want to start the second book right away. I picked up The Raven Boys for a few reasons, it’s something I’ve been meant to read for awhile now and when I picked it up I was…

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    The Key and the Flame

    This was my first book by Claire Caterer and it was definitely a fun-filled magical adventure for middle grade readers and it’s definitely left with an open ending for a follow-up story. Eleven-year-old Holly is always being told that she needs to get her head out of the clouds and…

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    The Real Boy

    There’s been a lot of chatter about The Real Boy by Anne Ursu in the past few months and I was curious myself to find out what the story was all about.  A glittering city called Asteri was saved from the plague by the magic of the island and the…

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    A Corner of White

    There were two things that made me want to read this book – the fist was the cover, I love all the bright colors and it looked like something right up my alley.  The second was the author’s last name, I’m a little bit of a Sherlock fan and with…

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    In Search of Goliathus Hercules

    In Search of Goliathus Hercules honestly scared me a little when I heard about it.  A young boy finds out that he can speak with 6-legged insects and soon realizes he is becoming more bug-like by the day.  My immediate thought went straight to Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis and I am…