Tag: Book Review
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Book Review: A Thousand Steps Into Night
Age: Young Adult Genre: Fantasy Miuko is a servant girl working in her father’s inn. Rumor said that her mother was a flighty nature spirit who abandoned Miuko and her father when she was a small girl, but the villagers mostly know her as being overly loud and clumsy for a girl. While running an…
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Book Review: Only A Monster
A solid, but flawed, start to a promising trilogy. Joan was six years old when she told her grandmother she wanted to be Superman. “You’re not a hero, Joan.” She bent her gray head confidingly. “You’re a monster.” Ten years later, Joan’s life changes forever when she manifests her monster ability while on her way…
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Book Review and Commentary: Hey Kiddo!
So, why am I reviewing a book that’s already been around for 3 1/2 years? It’s a good – and important – book. It’s been under attack by people who want to ban it. Graphic novelist Jarrett J. Krosoczka has created popular elementary-level graphic novels such as the popular Lunch Lady series (which is soon…
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Book Review: Ghost In The Headlights
Age Range: Middle Grades Genre: Horror Twelve-year old Brianna Jensen isn’t happy to be sent to stay with her uncle for two months while her mother trains for a new job, but things get even worse when strange events begin to happen along lonely Shadowrun Road, where her uncle lives. Sounds of footsteps following her,…
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Book Review: Our Last Echoes
Our Last Echoes, by Kate Alice Marshall Age range: Young Adult Genre: Horror On the island of Bitter Rock, near the coast of Alaska, people disappear. It’s been happening for over a century – sailors, soldiers, commune members, researchers – have disappeared, never to be heard from again. Officially, these disappearances are accidents. Unofficially… Sophia…
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