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Time Twisters: Amelia Earhart And The Flying Chariot, Taran Burnett
Time Twisters: Amelia Earhart And The Flying Chariot, Taran Burnett
Children's Book and Media Review
Doc, Abby, and Amelia Earhart have traveled through time to the ancient Olympics. History has been altered, and it is up to the team to untwist history and make it right. Luckily, Amelia Earhart is willing to replace an injured chariot driver to fix history. However, she finds that the state-of-the-art chariot is splintered in wooden shards across the hippodrome. Thankfully, chariots are no match for her plane, so she takes the air to win the race.
Thundercluck!:Chicken Of Thor, Amanda Morgan
Thundercluck!:Chicken Of Thor, Amanda Morgan
Children's Book and Media Review
This hilarious book is incredibly entertaining, packed full of action and page-turning cliff-hangers. Nearly every page has a well-written pun or a joke, but the ridiculousness of the story is handled with great skill, allowing for moments of seriousness. The larger text, short paragraphs, and frequent pictures make it great for children just getting started with chapter books. While there is action and conflict, actual violence is avoided or not described. With stakes that remain high enough to keep the reader enthralled to the end, the storyline and content should prove enjoyable for all ages.
Thundercluck! 2 Recipe For Revenge, Amanda Morgan
Thundercluck! 2 Recipe For Revenge, Amanda Morgan
Children's Book and Media Review
Like the first Thundercluck book, this is a wild ride of adventure and humor. Not quite as engaging as the first because the conflict feels a bit drawn out, it does, however, teach wonderful lessons about not giving up on friends. Suited for readers ages eight through twelve, it is a good book for children needing a chapter book with large text, small paragraphs, and illustrations scattered throughout. While the peril faced is relatively mild, the story remains thrilling and should capture the attention of a range of readers looking for adventure novels.
Smithsonian North America: A Fold-Out Graphic History, Leah Christopher
Smithsonian North America: A Fold-Out Graphic History, Leah Christopher
Children's Book and Media Review
This illustrated timeline combines the familiar and unfamiliar histories of the four North American regions: Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the islands of the Caribbean. From 13,000 BCE to the present day, this book details history from indigenous people from the 1200 BCE Olmec tribe, to the first North Americans with a written language, to the first indigenous women in US Congress in 2019. It features conflicts from the invasion of European explorers to the Cold War, and cultural events from the Mexican Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement. It highlights trail blazers as diverse as Juana Inés de …
The Legends Of Eerie-On-Sea: Malamander, Jazmin Gomez
The Legends Of Eerie-On-Sea: Malamander, Jazmin Gomez
Children's Book and Media Review
Herbie Lemon is the Lost-and-Founder of the Grand Nautilus Hotel in the seaside city of Eerie-on-Sea. Violet Parma is an orphan looking for answers about her missing parents. Together, they set out to learn the truth about Vi’s mother and father. In the process, they become entangled in the mystery of the town’s resident myth: the elusive malamander, a monster who is half fish and half man. As they uncover more details about the creature and its magical egg, they have to fight for their lives against a man who sports a hook for a hand and against greedy Sebastian …
House Of El Book 1: The Shadow Threat, Natalie Hatch
House Of El Book 1: The Shadow Threat, Natalie Hatch
Children's Book and Media Review
In this graphic novel, Gray introduces a society that has been genetically engineering the next generations for hundreds of years. As the first book in the series, an introduction to the culture, expectations, and social roles are explored, with a small start into a storyline about the weaknesses of genetic engineering. Gray looks at the downside that comes with generations of alterations, to the point that individuals become blind followers and believers with no sense of self-preservation. The futuristic dystopia is brought to life with Zawadzki’s illustrations, where the coloring is linked with the houses of the characters being represented. …
Greystone Secrets #2: The Deceivers, Aubrey Parry
Greystone Secrets #2: The Deceivers, Aubrey Parry
Children's Book and Media Review
With their mothers are trapped in an alternate universe, Chess, Emma, Finn Greystone, and Natalie Mayhew must figure out how to help them escape. But the tunnel between the worlds has collapsed, and they haven’t been able to figure out the clue to getting back. After several failed attempts, they put their heads together and finally get into alternate world, only to be faced with many challenging obstacles. Forced to hide from this other world’s Natalie, and trying to pretend they know what’s going so they don't stick out, the children learn how to find people they can trust while …
Gargantis Legends Of Eerie-On-Sea, Jazmin Gomez
Gargantis Legends Of Eerie-On-Sea, Jazmin Gomez
Children's Book and Media Review
Readers who enjoyed the first book in the Legends of Eerie-on-Sea series, Malamander, will be excited to return to this world. New and interesting characters are introduced while keeping the main cast of characters that appeared in book one. A new map and black-and-white illustrations throughout add aesthetic appeal. The main plot is captivating and satisfyingly resolved. Parts of the overarching storyline that were mentioned in the previous book are fleshed out a bit more. Yet, some aspects are still not resolved, leaving readers ready for the third and final installment in the series.
Brian Wildsmith's Animal Gallery, Nicole Clark
Brian Wildsmith's Animal Gallery, Nicole Clark
Children's Book and Media Review
Get to know a host of animal groups. While you may know that a group of lions is called a pride or that a group of reindeer as a herd, you may not know about a hover of trout, a prickle of hedgehogs, or a pandemonium of parrots.
Child Of The Dream: A Memoir Of 1963, Taylor Bitton
Child Of The Dream: A Memoir Of 1963, Taylor Bitton
Children's Book and Media Review
It's January 1963, and Sharon Robinson has just turned thirteen years old. As the daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, she has many more opportunities than most people of her race at that time. She saw her first concert live at the Apollo theater, she lives in a wealthy neighborhood, and her family has many connections to major figures, like Martin Luther King Jr. But Sharon's life is far from perfect. She's not totally removed from racial prejudice at school, and her family is experiencing some turmoil as her brother Jackie Jr. rebels and struggles to find his place in …
Tunnel Of Bones (Cassidy Blake, #2), Karen Abbott
Tunnel Of Bones (Cassidy Blake, #2), Karen Abbott
Children's Book and Media Review
In Paris, Cassidy Blake discovers another paranormal mystery. Spending the summer recording her parents’ ghost-hunting show called The Inspectors, Cassidy enters the catacombs with her ghost-bestie Jacob, only to encounter a poltergeist who has a short temper and no memory of his death. Worse still, Cassidy's British friend, Lara, informs her that poltergeists can cause serious damage and will continue to increase in power as more time is spent on the living side of the veil. Unraveling the poltergeist's story, they are able to send the spirit on, but they soon find they must defeat a new, destructive power lurking …
The Beatryce Prophecy, Maryn Wheeler
The Beatryce Prophecy, Maryn Wheeler
Children's Book and Media Review
In a war-torn kingdom, a lost girl is found by the monks of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Now Beatryce remembers only her name and is befriended by Answelica, the unruly goat. But, Brother Edik knows the king is looking for the lost girl because of a prophecy made many years earlier that a young girl would unseat him. Brother Edik hides her among the monks, but as she obtains the forbidden ability to read and write, memories eventually come to Beatryce. Realizing her identity, she sets out to face her future—and it is up to Beatryce and her friends to …
Show Me A Sign, Maryn Wheeler
Show Me A Sign, Maryn Wheeler
Children's Book and Media Review
Eleven-year-old Mary Lambert thrives as a young deaf girl on the island of Martha’s Vineyard in the early 19th century. Many people on the island are deaf and can communicate through sign. While the islanders navigate disputes about indigenous land rights, a scientist from the mainland arrives to investigate the causes of deafness on the island. When Mary is kidnapped by the scientist to further his study on the mainland, she is mistreated and realizes how isolating it is to not be able to communicate. Eventually, Mary befriends a maid who helps her escape. Making her way to the docks, …
Space Maps, Jazmin Gomez
Space Maps, Jazmin Gomez
Children's Book and Media Review
Space is a big place, housing stars, galaxies, planets, moons, and nebulae. Our solar system, which is made up of planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids, and comets, is part of the Milky Way galaxy. From Earth, certain celestial objects are visible, but there is much more beyond our own solar system. We explore all this through astronauts, artificial satellites, spacecraft, and space stations.
She Dared: Malala Yousafzai, Jennifer Haltli
She Dared: Malala Yousafzai, Jennifer Haltli
Children's Book and Media Review
When the word Taliban was spoken in the Swat Valley, ten-year-old Malala watched her dreams of becoming a doctor disappear. The long-bearded men in black turbans wandered out of the mountains, advocating for the strictest parts of Islamic law in a modernizing Pakistan and often enforcing their views at gunpoint. Because she was a top student in the all-girls school her father owned, Malala’s brilliant mind starved when the Taliban forced her school to close. So, at eleven, Malala began giving covert speeches about girls’ rights to education and collaborating secretly with journalists. Following her return to her war-torn city …
Investigators #1: Investigators, Jazmin Gomez
Investigators #1: Investigators, Jazmin Gomez
Children's Book and Media Review
World-famous cupcake chef Gustavo Mustachio has gone missing, and it’s up to investiGATORS Mango and Brash to find him. The alligator duo begins by going undercover at Gustavo’s bakery, Batter Down. Clues lead them to the science factory, where a scientific breakthrough about to be revealed has been stolen. Following their leads, the partners head to the city hospital and eventually back to the bakery. In the end, Gustavo reappears, and the case of the missing invention is also solved.
How Trains Work, Jennifer Haltli
How Trains Work, Jennifer Haltli
Children's Book and Media Review
It all began with two wooden rails and a horse-drawn mine cart—these would ignite a technology that utterly transformed mankind. On, above, and below the ground, trains connect to tracks in various ways and are powered by wood, diesel, and electricity. The purposes of trains are highly varied. Some take passengers between cities or across continents. One train in England even carries passengers only 128 feet from a clifftop to the beach. When trains are combined with other mediums of travel, like ferry boats, bridges, and undersea tunnels, train limits disappear. Also, the ever-changing train station is the stuff of …
Bridge Of Souls (City Of Ghosts #3), Karen Abbott
Bridge Of Souls (City Of Ghosts #3), Karen Abbott
Children's Book and Media Review
Cassidy, Jake, and Lara are in New Orleans, ready for another mystery. Cassidy is being hunted by a servant of Death who wants to reclaim her soul. Cassidy and her friends seek help from The Black Cat Society's members on both sides of the Veil, and they formulate a plan to save Cassidy, but soon everything runs amuck. A failed ceremony affects Jacob, and then the second attempt results in the capture of Lara. Soon Jacob, Cassidy, and the members of The Black Cat Society race to the rescue. Staying true to her friends, Cassidy saves the day while realizing …
A Galaxy Of Sea Stars, Maryn Wheeler
A Galaxy Of Sea Stars, Maryn Wheeler
Children's Book and Media Review
For Izzy Mancini, the beginning of 6th grade is not going as planned. Her lifelong friends, the Sea Stars, are drifting apart, her parents separated over the summer, and she has moved. To top it off, a new girl, Sitara, moved in next door. She’s an immigrant from Afghanistan, and she eats different food and wears a hijab. As Izzy struggles to accept this new friendship, she finds comfort and direction in the nearby harbor and from her role model, Marie Tharp, a scientist who made groundbreaking oceanic discoveries. Eventually, Izzy learns to navigate the changes in her life and …
Twas The Night Before Christmas, Rachel Wadham
Twas The Night Before Christmas, Rachel Wadham
Children's Book and Media Review
The night before Christmas, everyone is asleep—that is, until the master of the house hears a clatter outside the window. Finding that St. Nick has made his yearly visit, the master watches as gifts are left. With his task complete, St. Nick goes up the chimney wishing the quiet world a very happy Christmas.
The Vanderbeekers To The Rescue, Jazmin Gomez
The Vanderbeekers To The Rescue, Jazmin Gomez
Children's Book and Media Review
It is spring break for the Vanderbeeker family, and it is off to a promising start. Isa is practicing for a big violin audition. Oliver is building an epic treehouse with his uncle. Jessie, Hyacinth, and Laney are helping their mom prepare for a photo shoot that will feature her small baking business in a big lifestyle magazine. When the kids unintentionally ruin an inspection for their mother’s baking license, they set about to make things right before their parents find out. When they aren’t able to fix things, the photo shoot is cancelled and things seem bleak. Not giving …
The Mulberry Tree, Taylor Bitton
The Mulberry Tree, Taylor Bitton
Children's Book and Media Review
A few weeks before her eleventh birthday, Immy and her parents move to a tiny town in rural England. In their new backyard grows a black and menacing mulberry tree. Local legend says the tree is cursed, that it makes young girls disappear on the nights before their eleventh birthdays. It has happened twice before, and now that Immy is living in the house, the whole village fears it will happen again. Undeterred, Immy decides to investigate this mystery. Seeking information about the two girls who went missing, Immy begins to put the pieces together and help the village find …
The Train To Impossible Places:The Great Brain Robbery, Aubrey Parry
The Train To Impossible Places:The Great Brain Robbery, Aubrey Parry
Children's Book and Media Review
When an earthquake stops the relaunch of The Impossible Postal Express, Suzy realizes her second stay in Trollville won’t be quite what she expected. While helping to find parts to fix up the rest home, Suzy overhears something terrible. The person who caused the earthquake is going to cause another one. She decides to do something herself after discovering that those in charge can't do anything. Traveling with her friends to a farm filled with treasure and a cave believed to be fiction, Suzy and the group gather enough clues to figure out who’s behind the earthquakes so they can …
The 117-Story Treehouse, Erica Sonzogni
The 117-Story Treehouse, Erica Sonzogni
Children's Book and Media Review
Andy and Terry are back at it again, adding 13 more levels to their previous 104-story treehouse. Along with adding a mini horse floor, a traffic school, and an all-you-can-eat level to their abode, the boys are tasked with creating another story for their publisher, Mr. Big Nose. Terry, who is usually the illustrator, wants to oversee writing this book but has a challenging time creating the ending. When the Story Police come to arrest the boys due to their story’s lack of closure, they work together to evade the police while finishing a worthwhile story to publish.
The 12th Candle, Erica Sonzogni
The 12th Candle, Erica Sonzogni
Children's Book and Media Review
For her birthday, Sage receives a magical candle, on which she can wish for anything she desires. She knows immediately that she wants to reverse the curse that has been plaguing her family for decades. It seems only terrible events happen to her family—her dad is in jail, her mother is struggling to put food on the table, and Sage is terrible at math. On the other hand, good things happen to her family’s nemeses, the Pettys. But as the curse is reversed, Sage realizes that the Pettys’ lives are not as perfect as they seem and that she has …
Pi In The Sky, Aubrey Parry
Pi In The Sky, Aubrey Parry
Children's Book and Media Review
When The Powers That Be decide to wipe Earth out of existence after one of the humans sees The Realms through a wormhole, their actions have a domino effect on Joss, seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe. His best friend disappears, and Joss gets stuck making sure the very girl who first saw The Realms doesn't find out more. When the Supreme Overlord’s second-in-command, Gluck, tells Joss he’s the only one who can recreate Earth, he is sure he is the least qualified to do the job. But when Gluck insists, Joss decides he'll try, since there …
One Jar Of Magic, Taylor Bitton
One Jar Of Magic, Taylor Bitton
Children's Book and Media Review
On the night Rose was born, her father captured 161 jars of magic. Since then, he has been convinced that his daughter is destined for greatness, even giving her the nickname "Little Luck." When Rose turns twelve, she will be able to join the town’s New Year’s Day event of capturing of magic. She's been training for years so she can finally live up to everything her father expects of her. Then New Year's Day arrives, and Rose captures only one tiny jar of magic. Her father is shocked and disappointed, and Rose becomes a social outcast. But as Rose …
Homerooms And Hall Passes, Amanda Morgan
Homerooms And Hall Passes, Amanda Morgan
Children's Book and Media Review
Four hero friends—Thromdurr the barbarian, Devis the thief, Velva the paladin, Sorrowshade the assassin, and Albiorix the wizard—go on adventures every day. It’s easy for them to tire of the excitement, and they can hardly wait until they play Homerooms and Hall Passes each week. In this fun role-playing game, they can pretend they are in a mundane and ordinary middle school. After an encounter with a curse, things go awry, and the mighty adventurers end up in real life. There, the friends must learn how to be regular students and protect this newly discovered world from its own evils.
Geology Rocks! Investigate Gems, Jennifer Haltli
Geology Rocks! Investigate Gems, Jennifer Haltli
Children's Book and Media Review
Gems are found in the apparel of the richest, most prominent people. From the Southwest elder’s turquoise bolo to the London starlet’s diamond necklace, gems communicate prowess. Discover how gems become a part of grand clothes and jewelry by learning what the world’s gems are, where they are found, and how they are made and transformed into wearables. Diamonds, with their different cuts and historical significance, pearls, with their living complexity, and ten other gems are explored with their definitions, environmental origins, and chemical classifications. If money is an issue, discover the power of beautiful imitations, synthetics, and cultured gems.
City Of Ghosts, Erica Sonzogni
City Of Ghosts, Erica Sonzogni
Children's Book and Media Review
Cassie befriended a ghost when he saved her from a drowning accident. Since then, Cassie can not only see her ghost friend, Jacob, but also interact with others in a ghost world called The Veil. On a trip with her parents to Scotland, Cassie meets Lara, who also has the same power. Soon Cassie, Lara, and Jacob accidentally get involved with The Raven in Red, a ghost who steals living souls. Together, the trio must defeat her, allowing Cassie to escape her second close encounter with death.