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The Glittering Court, Abigail Packard
The Glittering Court, Abigail Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
The young Countess of Rothford does not want to marry her distant cousin. So when handsome Cedric Thorn arrives on her doorstep pitching a glamorous life in the Glittering Court to her lady’s maid, the countess takes her maid’s place as Adelaide Bailey. Adelaide travels to a country cottage with the other recruited girls to learn to become a lady. Adelaide does her best to fit in by pretending she doesn’t know any of the genteel skills that the girls are supposed to learn. But as she becomes better acquainted with her roommates, mysterious Mira and fiery Tamsin, and more …
Who's For Dinner? Predators And Prey, Ariel Woodbury
Who's For Dinner? Predators And Prey, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
If you've ever wondered how predators use teamwork, teach their young to hunt, or trick and trap prey then you should read this book! There are three different sections that are about predators, prey, and animal eating habits. Each is full of fun and interesting facts about a wide variety of animals.
The Keepers #2: The Harp And The Ravenvine, Becky Jamieson
The Keepers #2: The Harp And The Ravenvine, Becky Jamieson
Children's Book and Media Review
Horace, who can see up to one day in to the future, and Chloe, who can walk through walls, are no longer the newest Keepers on the block. They are veterans being asked to use their magical objects to protect the storehouse for such tools from their enemies, the Riven, once again. The Riven are following an animal empath named April with a broken object called the Ravenvine. They save April with the help of Chloe’s long lost mother who has the ability to stop the Riven with a magic-controlling harp. They are able to fix the Ravenvine, but Chloe …
Super Rawr!, Ariel Woodbury
Super Rawr!, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
It's career day at school and Rawr teaches his classmates about how to be a superhero. Superheroes are strong! Superheroes are fast! After school he rescues a kitten and helps with a broken fire hydrant, but he's glad when he gets home and can just be a dinosaur again. Being a superhero is a lot of work!
Evidence Of Things Not Seen, Emilee Bell
Evidence Of Things Not Seen, Emilee Bell
Children's Book and Media Review
Small towns are full of gossip, but even small-town Texas outdoes itself when adopted Tommy Smythe disappears. According to the locals, Tommy wandered through life absorbed with the possibility of alternate realities. Everyone has a theory about how he disappeared, and the sheriff is gathering the stories from everyone who knew him. Whether Tommy’s disappearance was a consequence of kidnapping, murder, a horrible accident, or a jump into an alternate reality, the sheriff’s search for Tommy unlocks the alternate realities that exist in each human mind.
Elmer And The Flood, Aylea Stephens
Elmer And The Flood, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
It has been raining for days and Elmer, the patchwork elephant, is tired of being stuck inside a cave with the rest of his herd. Many animals suggest to him that he should come inside their caves because of the rain, but Elmer still wants to go for a walk. The jungle is partly flooded, but the crocodiles are excited to swim in new places and the ducks are enjoying the weather. Elmer learns that Young Elephant is missing, so he goes to rescue Young, who is stuck on an island. Elmer gets all of the other elephants to help …
Hello, Goodbye, And Everything In Between, Aylea Stephens
Hello, Goodbye, And Everything In Between, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
It is their last night before leaving for college, and Clare and Aidan have to figure out if they are going to have a long distance relationship or break up. Clare makes a list of the things and places that have been the most important in their two years of being together. Together they go from place to place, reliving the moments that brought them together. Along the way, they discuss the possibility of staying together and the fear of being apart. They get upset with each other and some of their friends as everyone they know struggles to deal …
Officer Panda: Fingerprint Detective, Aylea Stephens
Officer Panda: Fingerprint Detective, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
When Officer Panda begins his shift, he notices that there is something unusual going on with the haystacks. He keeps seeing strange prints, so he asks witnesses if they’ve seen anything unusual. He goes through the forest and makes some notes, then comes home to see more prints there too. In the end, he discovers that the mysterious fingerprints belong to the reader of the book.
Say What You Will, Aylea Stephens
Say What You Will, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Amy can’t walk without a walker, talk without the help of a machine, or control her facial expressions and some of her body moments. Matthew has obsessive compulsive disorder that he can’t admit and controls his life. They are put together when Amy decides she wants to make real friends and convinces her mom to hire student aides to help her during her senior year of high school. Having these student aids allows her to try to make friends for the first time, but she soon realizes that she wants to be more than just friends with Matthew. Both have …
Hippomobile!, Aylea Stephens
Hippomobile!, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Jimmy and Stella are the only kids in their little town of Wymore. They have forty-seven grandmas and grandpas in this retirement community, and are perfectly happy in their slow, quiet lives. However, when the grandma the runs the restaurant says that she’s going to have to close it because she doesn’t get enough customers, the twins are determined to find a way to save their little town. The answer to getting more people in the town seems to be centered around the town’s treasure, a broken hippomobile with a fascinating past. If Jimmy and Stella can find a way …
Palace Of Spies, Aylea Stephens
Palace Of Spies, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
When Peggy is kicked out of her uncle’s house because she refuses to marry the man her uncle wants her to, she is thrown into a world of the royal court and espionage. The mysterious man who claims to know her father asks her to play the part of Lady Francesca at Hampton Court. Peggy has to find the information that her new benefactors want, but uncovering what happened to Lady Francesca could be a matter of life or death for her as she starts to uncover the Jacobite plot to change who rules England. During her time at court …
Best Frints In The Whole Universe, Ariel Woodbury
Best Frints In The Whole Universe, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Yelfred and Omek are from planet Boborp where they have been best frints since they were little blobbies. They eat yunch together, play eye ball, and share their blurfday gifts. But sometimes they get into fights doing things together. Yelfred gets a spaceship for his blurfday. He tells Omek that he can't drive it because he'll crash it. Omek decides to drive it anyways and schmackles it to bits. The easily vexed aliens fight over who's fault it is and Yelfred bites off Omek's tail. After Omek's tail grows back he tries to find a way to help his frint …
City Love, Aylea Stephens
City Love, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
The summer before their freshman year of college, Sadie, Darcy, and Rosanna move together to New York City to experience their first taste of adulthood. Sadie is a native New Yorker looking to find her soul mate just around the corner. She meets a terrific guy named Austin who just might be the soul mate she is looking for, as long as he is the person he is claiming to be. Darcy is from California and wants just another adventure with no serious relationships. Rosanna, from Chicago, wants to reinvent herself, but is finding it hard with limited finances and …
Battlesaurus: Rampage At Waterloo, Axel Trumbo
Battlesaurus: Rampage At Waterloo, Axel Trumbo
Children's Book and Media Review
Battlesaurus is a historical fiction--with a heavy emphasis on fiction. The story is loosely based on the battle of Waterloo, and the author notably attempts to impart knowledge about how things were in 19th-century Europe. But the true focus of the book is an alternate reality in which the world still has dinosaurs, and all the danger and excitement that comes with it. The story begins in a small village and follows a young protagonist, Willem, who aspires to be a magician like his father, who had disappeared long ago, having lost favor with Napoleon. The village is attacked by …
Lights On The Nile, Abigail Packard
Lights On The Nile, Abigail Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Kepi had no intention of journeying up the Nile to the capital city to speak directly with Pharaoh Khufu. She was content to stay at home and help her crippled father begin his baking business. But when some boys steal Babu, the baby baboon that Kepi saved, Kepi has to journey up the Nile to save him once more. Along the way Kepi herself is kidnapped, faces many dangers, meets new friends in the capital city, and eventually finds herself face to face with Pharaoh Khufu—the pharaoh who commissioned the pyramid that Kepi’s father was injured while building. Kepi fails …
Storybound #2: Story's End, Aylea Stephens
Storybound #2: Story's End, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Una Fairchild has released the Enemy, and now she needs to do what she can to fix the situation in Story. The Enemy wants to rewrite the future of Story, and the Resistance is doing what they can to find the King and prevent the Enemy from succeeding. Snow and her mother, Una, and Peter all have their separate missions to do what they can to learn more about Story’s history and to save its future for everyone. The help of the mysterious Kai gets them to an all-out battle to rescue the Muses and restore the True King to …
Becoming Jinn #2: Circle Of Jinn, Aylea Stephens
Becoming Jinn #2: Circle Of Jinn, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Now that Azra is used to being a jinn, it's easier to balance granting wishes and living her human life. But when the brother she didn't know about shows up with rumors of an uprising that would finally bring her family together, Azra is faced with new difficult decisions. Her unique ability to perform magic without being bound to the Afrit's rules make her a powerful player if she can decide how to go about her role in this uprising. If she can succeed, she'll gain everything. But if they lose, everything she loves will be lost. Azra discovers more …
Wintercraft #1: Shadowcry, Abigail Packard
Wintercraft #1: Shadowcry, Abigail Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Kate Winters lives with her uncle above their book shop in Morvane. She loves books and loves spending time with her uncle Artemis and with her best friend Edgar. But when Morvane is pilfered by warders in an attempt to find anyone who is Skilled (people that can cross the veil between this life and the life beyond death) Kate discovers she is one of the Skilled and is taken. She is whisked away by Silas, the most feared of the warders, to be brought to Da’ru, a woman who has made it her life's work to become an expert …