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Picture Book Month: Friends
Although not your typical friendship book or your typical princess story. Princess Hyacinth: the Suprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated is a true story of adventure and friendship. The princess has a terirble problem – she floats and without being weighed down by gold weights, diamond pebbles and the heaviest jewels…
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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…
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Book Review: All the Wind In the World
Synopsis: Sarah Jacqueline Crow and James Holt live in a near future America where much of the land has become harsh desert-like conditions and the only work available is back-breaking harvesting in fields. But, Sarah Jac and James have a plan – they’ll work until they save enough money to purchase…
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Book Review: Disappeared
I received this book as an ARC with the white cover. I didn’t read what the story was about but looking at the cover, assumed it was a dystopian science fiction book. Boy, was I wrong – it’s not dystopian or science fiction, but it was really well written. I…
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Book Review: The Painting
The Painting by Charis Cotter is a story of mystery and intrigue but at its heart its the story of loss and relationships among family. Annie loves painting, drawing, and art and is nothing at all like her parents who just can’t seem to understand their daughter. But, when Annie’s…
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Book Review: Calling My Name
Calling My Name by Liara Tamani is the story of Taja a young teen growing up in Houston, Texas with her family and friends. Taja knows what her parents expect of her – spend quality time with the family, get good grades, go to church every Sunday and abstinence is…
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Book Review: Orphan Island
How do I even begin? Every year a mysterious boat lands on the island with a young child. The young child gets off the boat, the oldest child on the island gets on the boat and disappears into the midst. The nine children on the island don’t ask questions –…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 7/24/17
I’m not doing too bad with middle grade fiction lately! Over the past week, I read Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder and Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk. I just started Miss Ellicott’s School for the Magically Minded by Sage Blackwood yesterday, so I’m working my way through that story and have Funny Girl: Funniest. Stories.…
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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 7/17/17
I read a lot this week, which probably equates to my stress level! We’re in the midst of hiring two full-time employees and making sure the i’s are dotted and the t’s are crossed is enough to make anyone crazy. I also finished shifting the entire adult fiction section (all…
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Book Review: The Bone Sparrow
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon is the story Subhi, a refugee born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fled the violence of their homeland. Subhi’s world is only what he knows inside the fence of the detention center, but his imagination allows him to…