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I Was A Rat!, Rebeca Wallin
I Was A Rat!, Rebeca Wallin
Children's Book and Media Review
Bob and Joan, a childless couple, are surprised one night when a young boy appears at their door and announces that he used to be a rat. Confused but kind-hearted, they take him in, care for him as their own, and call him Roger, though they indeed notice many rat-like tendencies. After a mishap at school, Roger is taken advantage of by a side-show owner and a thief, and is eventually reduced to living in the gutter with the rats, hunted by the town as a menace to society. Meanwhile, Bob and Joan tirelessly search for him. When Roger is …
Witchtown, Olivia Noli
Witchtown, Olivia Noli
Children's Book and Media Review
Macie and her mother, two con-women living on the road, arrive at Witchtown and hope to make it their last big job. Macie's mother, Aubra, a natural witch, leads the cons and uses her magic in the end to erase the townspeople's memories after they've been robbed. After every town, they move on and leave everyone behind. Witchtown is different, because when they arrive, they discover that the town is broke. Macie is determined to stay and make the con work. However, everything changes when her mother decides to burn down the town for the insurance money. Unable to destroy …
Walking In A Winter Wonderland, Cynthia Phillips
Walking In A Winter Wonderland, Cynthia Phillips
Children's Book and Media Review
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? What a beautiful song to be going through children’s minds in the winter time. Tim Hopgood illustrates Walking in a Winter Wonderland as well as two other sing along books, Singing in the Rain and What a Wonderful World. This book goes through the lyrics of the Christmas classic “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” as sung by Peggy Lee. Every page is colorfully illustrated with snowy scenes including people and animals.
My Name Is Truth: The Life Of Sojourner Truth, Nicole Clark
My Name Is Truth: The Life Of Sojourner Truth, Nicole Clark
Children's Book and Media Review
An unlikely journey from slave girl Isabella to fiery preacher and abolitionist is chronicled in My Name is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth. Sojourner Truth lived during the period of time when attitudes toward slavery in the United States were beginning to shift. Drawing on the courage and strength she received from God, Sojourner Truth fled the household where she had been enslaved, found freedom with a kind family, hired lawyers to find her young son who had been sold to another master, and felt God calling her to preach both religious doctrine and truths about slavery, eventually becoming …
The Boxcar Children, Kristie Hinckley
The Boxcar Children, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
When Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny's parents die, they find an abandoned boxcar in the woods and make it their home. Their grandpa lives in a nearby town and wants the children to live with him, but they are afraid that he will mistreat them. Besides, they can take care of themselves just fine. Henry does odd jobs for a kind doctor in town without giving away his identity. However, when Violet becomes sick the doctor reveals to their grandfather their location. Their grandpa is actually quite kind and they agree to live with him, especially since he moves their …
A Hop Is Up, Ariel Woodbury
A Hop Is Up, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
A little boy takes his dog for a walk and they see a lot of things in motion. There are things hopping, bending, marching, spinning, running, jumping, leaping, and sliding! The boy and his dog even make some new friends! Near the end of their walk, his dog runs after a cat and the boy has to chase him all the way home.
The Unicorn In The Barn, Olivia Noli
The Unicorn In The Barn, Olivia Noli
Children's Book and Media Review
After discovering a unicorn and following it to a vet's barn, Eric is hired by Dr. B to help take care of the unicorn and help with the clinic. Eric takes the job eager to help out with the unicorn, despite disliking Dr. B's daughter, Allegra. The job is harder than he expects, but the joy of the unicorn makes it worthwhile. Eric also has to deal with his grandmother's failing health and hopes the unicorn can help her get better. The plot generally follows his daily life after school at the vet and the weekend trips to see his …
The Most Perfect Snowman, Cynthia Phillips
The Most Perfect Snowman, Cynthia Phillips
Children's Book and Media Review
Drift is a snowman that was made quickly after the first snow fall, but was soon forgotten. The children who made him didn’t give him a scarf, hat, or mittens and even forgot to give him a carrot nose. All the other snowmen tease him because he isn’t as beautiful as they are. One day, some children discover Drift and give of their own winter wear to make Drift feel confident. They even give him a carrot nose. He feels like the most perfect of snowmen. But when a bunny is caught in a blizzard, Drift finds out that being …
Red Ink, Phyllis Rosen
Red Ink, Phyllis Rosen
Children's Book and Media Review
Melon is a fifteen-year-old girl whose mother was recently killed in a bus accident. Left with her mother's boyfriend, Paul, Melon angrily tries to figure out where she belongs. She clings to the story of her mother's past, but Paul eventually tells Melon the other side to her mom's past. Unable to accept the darker, other version of her mom's story, Melon runs away. She finds herself in the wrong place and is drugged and raped. Melon and Paul finally come to terms with the events of their lives and forge a bond. Melon realizes that everyone sees their story …
Waiting For Snow, Kristie Hinckley
Waiting For Snow, Kristie Hinckley
Children's Book and Media Review
It’s winter and Badger has yet to see a snowflake fall from the sky. Hedgehog encourages him to be patient, but being patient can be hard! Badger uses a telescope to look for snow and bangs on pots and pans to try to wake up the sky. After hearing the noise, Rabbit, Vole, and Possum join in, throwing pebbles at the sky in hope that the holes in the clouds will let snow loose. Vole suggests a snow dance, but no snow falls. The animals find other things to keep them busy, and when they wake up in the morning …
Plant The Tiny Seed, Ariel Woodbury
Plant The Tiny Seed, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Push the seed to plant it, then wiggle your fingers to make it rain! Rub the sun to make it hotter and shoo away the hungry snail to help your flowers grow. Wish for rain again and then bring back the sun! What beautiful flowers!
I Used To Be A Fish, Ariel Woodbury
I Used To Be A Fish, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
A little boy with a pet fish imagines the course of human evolution happening to him. He begins as a fish and decides to grow legs! And he keeps changing more and more. He grows fur, loses the fur, starts hunting other animals, and then builds skyscrapers! He hopes that one day he'll change again so that he can fly.
We're All Wonders, Nicole Davis
We're All Wonders, Nicole Davis
Children's Book and Media Review
Auggie is a wonder, but not everyone can see it. He knows he looks different, but inside he doesn't feel different. Other people laugh at him and hurt his feelings. Auggie and his dog blast off into space. Looking down on the world, Auggie sees how big it is and knows it is full of all different types of people. He knows each of them is a wonder too. Auggie cannot change the way he looks, but he hopes everyone can change the way they look at the world and at each other. He knows that if we chose to …
The Girl Who Drank The Moon, Karen Abbott
The Girl Who Drank The Moon, Karen Abbott
Children's Book and Media Review
The people of the protectorate make an unbelievable sacrifice once a year to keep the 'wicked' witch at bay. Every year a sweet, loving witch saves the baby they leave in the forest, not knowing that the baby is an offering of an ideologically oppressed city. Each year, Xan finds the baby and feeds it goat milk and starlight until she finds it a loving home where it will be cherished. Then comes lovely little Luna with a moon-shaped birthmark on her forehead. Xan mistakenly feeds this beautiful baby moonlight, which activates her magic. Magic children are a particular challenge, …
Gravity Falls: Tourist Trapped, Olivia Noli
Gravity Falls: Tourist Trapped, Olivia Noli
Children's Book and Media Review
Dipper and Mabel Pines, twelve year old twins, have been sent to live with their great-uncle Stan for the summer in Gravity Falls, Oregon. Dipper finds a hidden journal out in the woods that tells all the paranormal details of Gravity Falls. The journal warns to trust no one. Meanwhile, Mabel has her first boyfriend, but his haggard appearance and groaning leads Dipper to believe her boyfriend is a zombie. Mabel, out in the woods with Norman, discovers that Norman isn't a boy at all, but a bunch of gnomes who want her to become their queen. Dipper comes in …
Love Charms And Other Catastrophes, Aylea Stephens
Love Charms And Other Catastrophes, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
After Hijiri and her friends defeat Zara and her imposing love charms, Hiriji turns down Love's offer to be Grimbaud's new love charm maker, but Love isn't giving up on her yet. Love sends Hijiri a gift-wrapped boy that is supposed to be perfect for her, but she has no interest in a boy made out of charms. She is more interested in winning the city's love charm contest to prevent more nefarious charm makers from causing problems in the city. As Hiriji works to protect her friends and city from negative consequences of love spells, she learns to make …
The North Star, Nicole Davis
The North Star, Nicole Davis
Children's Book and Media Review
A young boy begins his journey through life and asks what is the right path and right destination. At first, the boy grows and observes, taking his time and doing what he likes. One day, a helpful cat tells the boy that he should be starting his journey and shows him the path he should take. The boy dutifully follows the path even though it gets a little confusing. At one point, he realizes he might be lost and begins to wander off the path but the cat stops him and tells him to hurry on his way. The boy …
How It Feels To Fly, Lisa Packard
How It Feels To Fly, Lisa Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Ballet is Samantha's life. Ever since she was little, Sam has always wanted to be a ballet dancer. Only one problem: her body decided to gain some weight. Being a plump ballerina is not good, especially when Sam wants to be a professional ballerina. When she has an anxiety attack during a performance and everyone sees, she's sent to a summer camp that helps performers overcome their anxiety. On a whim, she runs away from camp to audition for a ballet class, only to be rejected, but is offered a spot in a contemporary dance studio. Although contemporary dance isn't …
Bel The Weather Girl: A Snowstorm Shows Off: Blizzards, Ariel Woodbury
Bel The Weather Girl: A Snowstorm Shows Off: Blizzards, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
A snowstorm turns into a blizzard and Bel's class has to stay at school. Some of the kids are scared, but weather isn't scary once you understand it! So Bel teaches them about blizzards.
Bubbles, Taylor Nelson
Bubbles, Taylor Nelson
Children's Book and Media Review
Sophie Mulvaney, a middle school student with a passion for history and pancakes, has a problem: she’s started seeing bubbles over people’s heads that tell her what they’re thinking. On top of that, her mom has lost her job and broken up with her boyfriend, and Sophie’s social studies teacher has assigned her a project where she has to take a big risk, when she could not feel any less adventurous. She and her friends decide to compete in a big triathlon for their project, and Sophie sets off on a mission to fix her mom’s woes, which she feels …
Young Scrooge, Emily Mccarty
Young Scrooge, Emily Mccarty
Children's Book and Media Review
The holidays were anything but happy for Rick Scroogeman; he would argue that he hates Christmas more than Scrooge himself. Notorious bully at Oliver Twist Middle School, Rick would do anything for a laugh even ruining the school Christmas play. When all hope seemed lost for Rick changing his bullying ways, he finds himself visited by the very same ghosts in the Christmas Carol story he hates. Rick is tested by the Ghosts to learn compassion and empathy but has little success. Not until he is able reach inside himself to find the power to change his ways and apologize …
Silver, Lisa Packard
Silver, Lisa Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Paul and Mark go to the same school and have absolutely nothing in common until they have to fight for their lives. It's a normal day until Mark discovers a silver beetle, metallic with circuits. Meanwhile, Paul sees a large silver dog outside his window and chases after it, almost getting killed by the dog. They soon discover that the metal creatures have an incurable disease and are infecting everyone. The infected turn into zombies and try to infect anyone they can get their hands on. Barricading themselves in a building, Paul, Mark, and three other students are barely able …
Messenger Of Fear, Ashley Roggow
Messenger Of Fear, Ashley Roggow
Children's Book and Media Review
In this suspenseful, gripping tale, the Messenger of Fear inflicts an awful cat and mouse game upon unsuspecting victims, who may or may not deserve their worst fears coming true. In the most recent game, Mara, a young girl, wakes up in an eerie, misty field with no recollection of how she got there. She soon learns that she has been chosen as the Messenger’s apprentice, to help him guide his twisted game. If those chosen to play lose, their worst fears will become reality. Mara feels like a pawn rather than an apprentice in the Messenger’s creepy game, but …
The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner And Other Stories, Olivia Noli
The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner And Other Stories, Olivia Noli
Children's Book and Media Review
The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Terry Pratchett when he was seventeen. The stories were published weekly in his local newspaper when he was working as a junior reporter. Pratchett promises a series of adventure in his newly edited and compiled anthology. The first story is "The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner," in which a party magician is cursed by a witch for disturbing her vacuum cleaner. Throughout the story, Ron Swimble, the party magician, becomes enamored with the witch and proposes marriage (and asks her to lift her troublesome spell). The book …
The Graveyard Book, Olivia Noli
The Graveyard Book, Olivia Noli
Children's Book and Media Review
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman is the story of a boy who is cared for by the residents of a graveyard after his family is murdered. Named "Nobody Owens" to protect his identity, he is raised by the ghosts and a vampire, all the while hiding from the real world outside the borders of the graveyard. Silas, his vampire guardian, investigates throughout the novel who wants to murder "Bod" (short for Nobody). As he grows up, Bod learns many things about life from the ghosts and Miss Lupescu, a werewolf who occasionally visits. In the end, he learns why …
The Cow Said Meow, Phyllis Rosen
The Cow Said Meow, Phyllis Rosen
Children's Book and Media Review
Who knew that farm animals had a sense of humor and were so smart? A cat wants to come inside from the rain, so it stands at the door and meows until the farmer's wife opens the door and lets it in. The cow hears the cat and decides to try to the same thing, standing in front of the door and saying "meow." The pig sees the cow and tries the same ploy. Each time one animal is admitted, another animal sees the incident and tries the same trick. Eventually the living room is filled with animals. When the …
Nara And The Island, Jess Verzello
Nara And The Island, Jess Verzello
Children's Book and Media Review
Nara lives with her father on their quiet, small island. She dreams of finding an adventure on the island next to hers, but she would have to find a way to get there first. Then one day her father tells her that he has fixed their boat and that she can explore the other island while he looks for the “big fish.” On the other island she finds a large, green, noisy world to explore and meets a boy named Aran. Together they explore the island, and he shows her his favorite secret place which they now share as friends.
Carrot And Pea: An Unlikely Friendship, Jess Verzello
Carrot And Pea: An Unlikely Friendship, Jess Verzello
Children's Book and Media Review
Lee and Colin are best friends, but Lee is a pea and Colin is a carrot. All of Lee’s other friends are peas and can roll, bounce, and blend in together. But Colin is tall and orange and he can’t do any of the things the other peas can. But, Colin makes an excellent tower, bridge, and slide! Lee and the other peas love Colin just the way he is!
The Freemason's Daughter, Liz Sugihara
The Freemason's Daughter, Liz Sugihara
Children's Book and Media Review
Jenna MacDuff and her small clan have been on the run for months. Moving from place to place to gather support for their exiled monarch sends them away from Jenna’s beloved Scotland to a family estate in England. The clan is hired to build a garrison for the Duke of Keswick, but they have secret plans of their own. Jenna’s father warns her to not draw attention to herself or the clan, but it becomes increasingly difficult when she catches the eye of Lord Pembroke, son of the duke. Strong-willed and opinionated, her growing friendship and attraction to Lord Pembroke …
The Widow's Broom, Karen Abbott
The Widow's Broom, Karen Abbott
Children's Book and Media Review
A witch summons another ride, and leaves her old broom behind after it lost it power to fly and crashed them into an elderly widow's garden. After taking in the broom, the widow discovers that it can sweep a floor by itself, play a piano one note at a time, and magically perform other useful tasks. Her neighbors come to see the broom and feel that the broom is unnatural and dangerous. Children bully the broom, and when it defends itself the neighbor visits the widow and demands that it's destroyed. In order to placate her neighbors, she pretends to …