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Earth Aliens #4: The Others, Lisa Packard
Earth Aliens #4: The Others, Lisa Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
The humans find that not only are the Charneki on the planet, but also the Tikshi, another alien race that has been at war with the Charneki since the beginning of time. Zeneba refuses the Tikshi's help, which causes the Tikshi to team up with the humans to destroy the Charneki (something Hugh and Elena don't support). Battling with their feelings about what is right and wrong, Hugh and Elena are sent on the expedition to the Tikshi leader. During this time, Rhys is getting to know Zeneba more, and working out ways to come to a peaceful end instead …
Heidi Hecklebeck #2: Heidi Hecklebeck Casts A Spell, Amanda Durrant
Heidi Hecklebeck #2: Heidi Hecklebeck Casts A Spell, Amanda Durrant
Children's Book and Media Review
Heidi's problems with meanie Melanie continue in this second book of the series, this time focusing on the school play. Heidi is collecting the ingredients to make a spell that will cause Melanie to forget her lines during opening night. Heidi's spell works, and Melanie bursts into tears during the play, making Heidi feel awful enough to reverse the spell. It turns out that Heidi comes from a line of witches, including her mother and her eccentric aunt. Once Heidi's aunt realizes what Heidi has done, she teaches Heidi not use magic for personal gain.
A Little Taste Of Poison, Tessa Mcmillan
A Little Taste Of Poison, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
After failing to expose Eryx of murder, Isaveth and Esmond (aka Quiz) are living an uneasy existence away from each another. However, the owner of Glow-Mor changes everything when he gives Isaveth a scholarship to attend the socially elite Tarreton College. Soon after starting, Isaveth reunites with Esmond and they renew their search for clues against Eryx. Their leads show that Eryx is keeping any incriminating documents inside his magically protected car. Under the cover of a masquerade ball at Eryx’s home, Isaveth and Esmond try to get to the evidence. Their efforts are cut short when Esmond’s father, the …
The Singing Bones, Jarrett Bell
The Singing Bones, Jarrett Bell
Children's Book and Media Review
In 1815, two German brothers with the surname Grimm published the first edition of Children’s and Household Tales, a complete flop. However, their luck changed in 1823 when they received a new edition, published in London with one major change: the addition of illustrations. Ever since then, fairy tales have been interpreted by the accompanied artwork. The Singing Bones is a first attempt to add minimalism sculpture, rather than imaginative illustration, to the fairy tales. This leaves the interpretation of the story to the reader, the way the author believes the Brothers Grimm meant them to be.
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.
Earth Aliens #3: The Time Of Trying Souls, Lisa Packard
Earth Aliens #3: The Time Of Trying Souls, Lisa Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Yaro, the Charneki captain of the guard has been captured and is being held prisoner. Elena, the soldier guarding him, talks to him even though he doesn't understand. As she's talking to him, Rhys is offered a job as the translator of Yaro so the humans can understand what he's saying. During this time, Zeneba, the mara of the Charneki, has become cold and bitter, unable to forgive the humans for the death of her brother. As she's preparing how best to get rid of them, the General hatches her own plan of sending Yaro back home with some soldiers …
Horrible Bear!, Ariel Woodbury
Horrible Bear!, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Bear accidentally rolls onto a girl's kite and breaks it. What a horrible bear! Or is he? The little girl certainly thinks he is! She yells about how horrible Bear is all the way home and complains to her stuffie. But while she's telling her stuffie about what happened to her kite, she accidentally breaks him. Realizing that Bear probably didn't mean to break her kite, she apologizes and they both learn to forgive each other.
What If You Met A Cowboy?, Ariel Woodbury
What If You Met A Cowboy?, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Real cowboys aren't sharpshooters with adventurous lives. That romanticized image of cowboys was invented by Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. There are varying styles of being a cowboy from different parts of the country. Real cowboys had to have skills like being able to cut the herd, throw a loop, and understand what different brands meant. The life of a cowboy is a dangerous one too: falling off your horse or being gored by a longhorn can be deadly.
The Sound Of Life And Everything, Jarrett Bell
The Sound Of Life And Everything, Jarrett Bell
Children's Book and Media Review
Ella Mae and her family live in a fictional town of California in post-World War II. In this science fiction story line, Ella Mae's rambunctious, grieving aunt gives the dog tags of Ella Mae’s late cousin, Robby, to a new group of scientists who have cracked the genetic code and are able to reconstitute a body from blood samples. There is only one problem: The grown body that comes out of the reconstruction chamber has dark hair, double eyelids, and olive skin—he is a young Japanese man (who they call Takuma). When Aunt Mildred is repulsed by “the abomination,” Ella …
Earth Aliens #2: Demons In The North, Lisa Packard
Earth Aliens #2: Demons In The North, Lisa Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Rhys is having a hard time adjusting to his twin brother suddenly being older than him. He doesn't understand why he can't go out and explore and meet the natives of Terra Nova. One day when he runs away to explore, he finds a native named Zaynab. Instead of running in fear and fighting, they become friends and start to learn each other’s language. Hugh is really worried about his brother, but he doesn't want to make it any worse than it already is. Zeneba, the mara of the Charneki, wants to meet with the humans and see if they …
Super Social Studies Infographics: Economics Through Infographics, Ariel Ariel Woodbury
Super Social Studies Infographics: Economics Through Infographics, Ariel Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
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Cy In Chains, Ariel Woodbury
Cy In Chains, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Cy Iives with his father, a sharecropper, until meddling in the white men's business gets the best of him. He is sent to a chain gang where he must work all day. Cy must do everything that Cain and Prescott tell him to. All the boys hate Cain and Prescott, and when the boys get the courage to display their anger they pay the price. The boys are whipped for bad behavior, or are sent to work in the mines. Visiting day is when all of camp prepares for people to come see the boys. Cy always hopes his dad …
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story, Bethany Stevens
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story, Bethany Stevens
Children's Book and Media Review
Sachiko is six-years-old when the bomb falls from the sky, forever altering her life's trajectory. Her two-year-old brother, Toshi, dies immediately in the blast. twelve-year-old Ichiro and fourteen-year-old Aki soon follow, suffering from the affects of radiation poisoning that know one understands or knows how to treat. Next is Uncle. Sachiko, Mother, and Father survive the initial destruction and attempt to rebuild the life that was so suddenly torn away from them. Years down the road, cancer from the radiation takes Father away. Sachiko survives as a silent witness, always keeping in remembrance those who didn't make it. Bolstered by …
The Menagerie #3: Krakens And Lies, Becky Jamieson
The Menagerie #3: Krakens And Lies, Becky Jamieson
Children's Book and Media Review
Although Logan, Zoe, and Blue have only been friends for a week, it's up to them to resolve every crisis that comes the Menagerie's way. They have to capture a basilisk that has escaped its enclosure with the help of Marco the werechicken. Then they have to deal with the merpeople’s strike and interpret a message from the kraken: which helps Logan and his father to find Logan's kidnapped mother. She was captured along with a Chinese dragon by the Sterlings who, for profit, intended to reveal the magical creatures of the Menagerie to the world. With the help of …
The Truth About Fragile Things, Tessa Mcmillan
The Truth About Fragile Things, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
High school junior Megan Riddick thrives while acting on the stage, but shuns the attention of the real world. Her dislike for reality started when Bryon Exby gave his life to save her when she was just two years old. All Megan and her family want to do is bury this secret and move on. But life is blown apart when Charlotte, Bryon’s daughter, moves into town. Charlotte stalks Megan until the two finally meet. Noting that Megan is not a threat, Charlotte admits that Bryon left an unfinished bucket list and she needs help completing it. Megan agrees and …
The Classy Crooks Club, Aylea Stephens
The Classy Crooks Club, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
The last thing AJ wants to do is spend the summer with her strict, old-fashioned grandmother, but she doesn't have a choice. Things get more interesting for her when she realizes that her grandmother's bridge club is not an ordinary bridge club. Instead they are a heist club, and these ladies could use her smaller, younger self to help them accomplish their goals. At first the capers seem like fun, harmless adventures, but AJ soon realizes that what they are doing is simply thievery and she has to question her ethics and loyalty to family and friends as the stakes …
Earth Aliens #1: The Expedition, Lisa Packard
Earth Aliens #1: The Expedition, Lisa Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Hugh and his twin brother Rhys have been granted passage on a starship to a new planet called Terra Nova. Hugh gets to be an apprentice to an engineer during the seven year journey, but Rhys is put into cryo-tube to sleep the entire journey. As Hugh is dealing with the loss of his brother and learning the ropes of taking care of the engines he meets Elena. On the planet Terra Nova, a young Charneki becomes the ruler of them all. Zeneba, the ruler, is having to learn how to be a leader when she is very young. As …
The Menagerie #2: Dragon On Trial, Becky Jamieson
The Menagerie #2: Dragon On Trial, Becky Jamieson
Children's Book and Media Review
Logan, Zoe, and Blue will do anything to stop the Menagerie from being shut down, and that means proving to a jury of magical creatures the innocence of Scratch the dragon. Scratch faces the death penalty for killing Pelly, the goose who laid the golden eggs. With the help of Marco, a werechicken in their seventh grade class, the three friends learn that Scratch is guilty of no more than eating a few farmer’s sheep and that Pelly is not dead after all. They find Pelly and bring her back in time to save Scratch, but they are still unsure …
The Perfect Place, Shelby Bunker
The Perfect Place, Shelby Bunker
Children's Book and Media Review
Treasure's daddy is always accepting new jobs and leaving his family while he prepares the new place for their arrival. But after Dad’s most recent move, it doesn’t seem like he’s coming back for them this time. While Mom goes off in search of Dad, Treasure and her younger sister Tiffany are forced to spend their summer with strict and stuffy Great Aunt Grace, who they are quick to nickname GAG. As Treasure spends the summer wondering if she’ll ever see her dad again and wondering if they’ll ever settle in the perfect place her father so desperately seems to …
All Four Stars, Aylea Stephens
All Four Stars, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Gladys Gatsby loves to cook, but her parents want her to stop after she almost burns down her kitchen with a blowtorch trying to make creme brulee. Her parents forbid her to cook or read about cooking and instead to play outside and make friends—things that don't sound appealing at all to Gladys. When a mix-up with a school assignment gets her a job as a food critic, that is if she can get to the restaurant and submit a review good enough to convince the newspaper that she can do the task, she makes friends with people she never …
After The Red Rain, Lisa Packard
After The Red Rain, Lisa Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
The world is dying and the humans are trying to survive on what they can. As Deedra is out scavenging for more food and resources, she sees a boy crossing a river separating the territories. When she goes to help him from being swept down the river she notices that he doesn't have any marks on his body identifying where he came from. She discovers his name is Rose before he suddenly disappears. She doesn't see him again for a while, but then he saves her life and they start to get to know each other. Rose stays at her …
Human Body Theater, Katelyn Osborn
Human Body Theater, Katelyn Osborn
Children's Book and Media Review
Have you ever wondered why you have to get shots at the doctor’s office? Or why your friend is allergic to peanuts but you aren’t? How about what happens when you break your arm? What about how your heart works? Luckily, kids and preteens have a great resource in Maris Wicks’s Human Body Theater. The book is presented as a comic book style “nonfiction revue” where each chapter dives deeper into a body system or organ, presented by a personable skeleton. Topics covered include the skeletal, muscular, respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive, excretory, endocrine, reproductive, immune, and nervous system; as well as …
The Menagerie, Becky Jamieson
The Menagerie, Becky Jamieson
Children's Book and Media Review
It's hard being the new kid in town for Logan Wilde. He is the only son of an overworked man and a woman who ran away from their family, and he has yet to make any friends in the small Wyoming town. However, his simple reality changes quickly when Logan finds a griffin in his bedroom. This young talking griffin leads Logan into the menagerie of magical creatures where he becomes friends with fellow seventh-graders Zoe and Blue. Logan helps Zoe and Blue find the other five griffin cubs that have escaped their enclosure at the menagerie and are hidden …
Hello, My Name Is Octicorn, Aylea Stephens
Hello, My Name Is Octicorn, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Octi is a one-of-a-kind octicorn: the child of a unicorn and an octopus. He's not sure how his parents met, but because he's the only Octicorn he knows of it can be hard for him to fit in on land or at sea. He doesn't get invited to do things even though he knows octicorn are a lot of fun. Octi gives the reader a lot of reasons why he would make a great friend to someone because as different as he might look, he knows that we all want the same things.
Faking Normal, Lisa Packard
Faking Normal, Lisa Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Alexi has a secret. One that she'll never tell. She deals with her pain and guilt by scratching her neck and counting the spaces in her air vent. As she's trying to deal with her pain, a boy from school that everyone calls the Kool-aid kid moves in with her family. Although everyone makes fun of Bodee (the Kool-aid kid) and thinks he's weird, Alexi befriends him. He listens and understands her. She knows she's safe with him and they quickly become best friends. Alexi eventually tells Bodee she was raped by her sisters fiance. As Bodee is trying to …
The Menagerie, Becky Jamieson
The Menagerie, Becky Jamieson
Children's Book and Media Review
It's hard being the new kid in town for Logan Wilde. He is the only son of an overworked man and a woman who ran away from their family, and he has yet to make any friends in the small Wyoming town. However, his simple reality changes quickly when Logan finds a griffin in his bedroom. This young talking griffin leads Logan into the menagerie of magical creatures where he becomes friends with fellow seventh-graders Zoe and Blue. Logan helps Zoe and Blue find the other five griffin cubs that have escaped their enclosure at the menagerie and are hidden …
Hello, My Name Is Octicorn, Aylea Stephens
Hello, My Name Is Octicorn, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Octi is a one-of-a-kind octicorn: the child of a unicorn and an octopus. He's not sure how his parents met, but because he's the only Octicorn he knows of it can be hard for him to fit in on land or at sea. He doesn't get invited to do things even though he knows octicorn are a lot of fun. Octi gives the reader a lot of reasons why he would make a great friend to someone because as different as he might look, he knows that we all want the same things.
Faking Normal, Lisa Packard
Faking Normal, Lisa Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Alexi has a secret. One that she'll never tell. She deals with her pain and guilt by scratching her neck and counting the spaces in her air vent. As she's trying to deal with her pain, a boy from school that everyone calls the Kool-aid kid moves in with her family. Although everyone makes fun of Bodee (the Kool-aid kid) and thinks he's weird, Alexi befriends him. He listens and understands her. She knows she's safe with him and they quickly become best friends. Alexi eventually tells Bodee she was raped by her sisters fiance. As Bodee is trying to …
Max Flash: Mission 1: Game On, Becky Jamieson
Max Flash: Mission 1: Game On, Becky Jamieson
Children's Book and Media Review
All his life Max Flash has practiced magic tricks and being an escape artist. However, like most kids he also has a passion for video games. Now Max is being asked to put these skills to use in a way that he had never thought possible. It is his mission to enter a virtual world filled with video game characters that are bent on killing him and escaping through a portal into the real world. With the help of computer programmers on the outside Max stops the game characters from leaving and manages to pass through the portal just before …