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Blocks, Amanda Judd
Blocks, Amanda Judd
Children's Book and Media Review
Sharing is so hard sometimes. When Ruby has all the red blocks, and Benji has all the blue blocks, what happens when Benji wants some red blocks too? At first they fight, then decide its best to work together and share all the blocks creating a wonderful masterpiece.
Blackhearts, Tessa Mcmillan
Blackhearts, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
For five months Anne has been surviving servitude to the rich shipping merchant, Master Drummond. However, Anne secretly plans to escape to the West Indies—the location where Anne’s English father and her West Indian mother fell in love. Anne’s goal is sidetracked when she meets Master Drummond’s son, Edward “Teach”. Teach, freshly returned from a year at sea, is immediately drawn to Anne because of her strength, intelligence, and beauty. Teach offers her friendship, but she hesitates because he is engaged. As time goes by, the pair cannot deny they have met their match in one another. Teach decides to …
Bink And Gollie, Abigail Packard
Bink And Gollie, Abigail Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Bink and Gollie are two inseparable, roller-skating, adventure-taking friends; but they are also both very different. In this charming beginner’s chapter book, DiCamillo and McGhee tell three stories of Bink and Gollie and how they compromise so that they are both happy. Flamboyant socks, far-away adventures in the Andes, and a new fishy friend are the center of the three separate chapters. In the end Bink and Gollie, despite their differences, realize that their friendship is really something special for the both of them.
Beneath #2: Above, Tessa Mcmillan
Beneath #2: Above, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
On the run since their escape from the Deep; Pat, Coop, and Kate plan to reunite in Oregon. However, their reunion is postponed when Alex Dane—Lod’s brother who helped the teens escape—shows up and tasks Kate to shadow Lod’s members that are gathering in the area. Alex, Pat, and Coop follow Kate’s trail so they can understand Lod’s next move and then notify the authorities. Kate lets herself get captured by Lod’s minions, but she tries to earn their trust so she can hide her involvement with Alex, Pat, and Coop. Eventually she is found out and Pat, Coop, and …
Asylum, Cynthia Frazier
Asylum, Cynthia Frazier
Children's Book and Media Review
Dan is sixteen and has come to New Hampshire College Prep to get a jump on college courses over the summer. Since the regular dorms are under renovation, students are assigned rooms in an old crumbling structure, a former psychiatric hospital called Brookline. Dan and his new friends Abby and Jordan decide to explore the building and discover disturbing photographs of patients and old case files in a dusty office. Curiosity leads the trio in detecting a hidden door leading to an old operating theater in the basement. Murders start happening, strange notes appear in Dan’s room, messages are sent …
Abracadabra: The Story Of Magic Through The Ages, Aylea Stephens
Abracadabra: The Story Of Magic Through The Ages, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Even from the earliest recorded history, people have been performing magic to fool, inspire, educate, and entertain. In this nonfiction book, it summarizes the history of magic from the beginning to the modern day. Nequist explains how the most famous magic tricks were created, how the most influential magicians got started and developed their craft, how magic went from being punishable by death to requested by world leaders, and many things relating to how magicians perform tricks and astound their audiences every day. The book contains instructions to perform eight of the most common and oldest magic tricks, sections on …
You Were The First, Ariel Woodbury
You Were The First, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
This story pays tribute to the many first experiences that a child has growing up and the experiences of new parents. It begins with the their baby's first smile, and then the baby grows with each new page of the story. He is the first to learn to blow kisses, crawl, make snow angels, and many other things. The book ends suggesting that he may not be the only one to do all those things, but he will always be the first.
You Look Different In Real Life, Aylea Stephens
You Look Different In Real Life, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Five kids were chosen to be the stars of a reality documentary, showing them in their regular lives doing what they do. It’s time for another movie, but Justine isn’t sure she wants to do another one. It’s been five years since the last movie, but now she feels like a disappointment and like she hardly knows most of the other kids who were so important to her early life. The new movie gives them a chance to reunite again, but after years of hurt and having personal things from their lives being shared with strangers, they aren’t very willing …
Water Is Water, Kelsie Ward
Water Is Water, Kelsie Ward
Children's Book and Media Review
In this gentle and cleverly rhymed book, the water cycle is conveyed through what otherwise looks and feels like a narrative picture book. The children are taken on a journey through seasons, with the ability to see and understand how water changes. The steps are simple enough for young readers to comprehend, but the author provides are lengthier more scientific description for each step at the end of the book.
Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing, Sydnee Burr
Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing, Sydnee Burr
Children's Book and Media Review
Elementary aged children with pesky younger siblings will thoroughly sympathize with Peter. His younger brother Fudge is Peter's biggest problem. He's loud, messy, stinky, embarrassing and nosy. Living with Fudge is one of the hardest things Peter has to do. However, through a series of events, Peter learns that Fudge isn't 100 percent bad, and realizes that his parents love him as much as they love Fudge.
The Story Of Diva And Flea, Rachel Wadham
The Story Of Diva And Flea, Rachel Wadham
Children's Book and Media Review
Diva, a very small dog who lives at 11 Avenue Le Play in Paris, feels safe in her garden even though big feet might step on her. Flea, a cat who lives on the street, loves to explore and has adventures every day. One day Flea’s travels go past Diva’s garden and the two strike up a friendship. Flea regales Diva with stories of the wide world and eventually convinces her to take a few small steps to see the tower that pierces the sky. In return, Diva introduces Flea to the wonders of the indoors like food that is …
The Pout-Pout Fish In The Big-Big Dark, Ariel Woodbury
The Pout-Pout Fish In The Big-Big Dark, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Ms. Clam yawns and a current knocks her pearl away, so Mr. Fish promises to help her find it. He looks but can't find it so he has to swim down where there's less light. Mr. Fish wants to keep his promise to his friend, but he's scared of the dark! He swims down and down some more until he's in a deep, dark trench. He almost heads back before he finds the pearl because he is scared, but then his friend Miss Shimmer swims with him and he feels braver since he's not alone. They find the pearl and …
Peep And Egg: I'M Not Hatching, Kelsie Ward
Peep And Egg: I'M Not Hatching, Kelsie Ward
Children's Book and Media Review
Peep and Egg is a fun and entertaining tale about a baby chick named Peep and an unhatched chick named Egg. Egg is stubborn and refuses to hatch due to the fear of the world around him. The reader is taken on a journey around a farm with lots of fun and adventure to be had, if Egg can brave the world around them and hatch from his egg. Though it takes some time for the patient and clever Peep to convince Egg to crack from his shell, in time, he does.
Paper Things, Aylea Stephens
Paper Things, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
When Ari’s older brother, Gabe, doesn’t want to live with their guardian anymore, Ari chooses to leave with him and they become homeless. Gabe can’t find a steady enough job to get an apartment, so Ari and Gabe switch between staying with Gabe’s girlfriend and two roommates, Gabe’s friend in a tiny apartment, and sometimes a juvenile homeless shelter. All of this change makes it hard for Ari to keep up with school and her friends, particularly when she is trying to apply to Carter, the middle school for gifted students. The only constants in her life are Gabe and …
My Lady Jane, Aylea Stephens
My Lady Jane, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Lady Jane Grey didn’t have a happy ending in real life, but the narrators in this book are determined to give her a better story. Her cousin, King Edward, has decreed that she should marry a stranger so that her child can be their heir to the throne instead of his sister Mary who is bloodthirsty towards the group of people who have the ability to turn into animals. Shortly after Jane marries Lord Gifford (or G, as he prefers to be called) and discovers that her husband spends most of his time as a horse, she finds out that …
The Mediator #2: Ninth Key, Whitney Troxel
The Mediator #2: Ninth Key, Whitney Troxel
Children's Book and Media Review
Suze is finally adjusting to life in California with her new step-family. She’s even developed a friendship with Jesse, the ghost haunting her room, although Suze suspects her feelings for him may be a little more than friendship. But another ghost has taken to haunting Suze’s room recently. This ghost is desperate to get a message to Red, but before Suze can ask the ghost anything else she vanishes. Assuming the ghost means Red Beaumont--a wealthy business man with an extremely attractive son, Tad--Suze sets out to deliver the ghost’s message. Suze quickly discovers that something is not right in …
Mable Riley: A Reliable Record Of Humdrum, Peril, & Romance, Katelyn Osborn
Mable Riley: A Reliable Record Of Humdrum, Peril, & Romance, Katelyn Osborn
Children's Book and Media Review
When Mable’s older sister Viola gets a job teaching school in a town far from their home and Mable is assigned to go with her, she is thrilled to be somewhere new and different, where adventures are bound to happen, and she’ll finally have something interesting to write about. Much to Mable’s dismay, life at the Goodhands’ farm is as dull as it was back in her hometown. Between being bossed around by Viola, monotonous chores assigned by the Goodhands, and trying to make friends at her new school, Mable’s ready to give up. But one day while on an …
Look!, Abigail Packard
Look!, Abigail Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
This gorilla just wants to make a new friend. But it’s hard for him to get the attention of the boy when all the boy wants to do is watch TV. After some crazy antics and tricks, the gorilla accidentally knocks over the TV and the little boy is angry. But then the little boy picks up one of the books the gorilla was playing with and realizes how great books are. He and the gorilla become friends over their shared new-found love of books.
Little Miss, Big Sis, Amanda Durrant
Little Miss, Big Sis, Amanda Durrant
Children's Book and Media Review
Little Miss finds out she is about to become a Big Sis! This book covers it all, starting with Little Miss waiting for the birth of a new baby. As the story progresses, Little Miss turns into a Big Sis through caring for and playing with the new baby as they grow up together. Big Sis's life changes with the new arrival, first with an infant who doesn't do much but cry and sleep, then on to making messes, and finally becoming social as an older infant. Big Sis discovers the joys and annoyances of having a younger sibling as …
Heidi Heckelbeck #1: Heidi Heckelbeck Has A Secret, Amanda Durrant
Heidi Heckelbeck #1: Heidi Heckelbeck Has A Secret, Amanda Durrant
Children's Book and Media Review
Heidi Hecklebeck is about to start her first day of school EVER, but she has some bumps along the way. As she transitions from being home-schooled to attending second grade at Brewster Elementary, Heidi deals with being the new girl in an unfamiliar setting. To make things worse, Heidi is bullied by another girl in her class and absolutely hates school. With encouragement from a new found friend and her family, this seemingly normal eight-year-old comes up with a plan using her secret powers as a witch to get back at the class bully.
Finding Winnie: The True Story Of The World's Most Famous Bear, Abigail Packard
Finding Winnie: The True Story Of The World's Most Famous Bear, Abigail Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Finding Winnie is the true story of Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian from Canada, and his bear Winnipeg (or Winnie for short). Harry bought Winnie from a trapper while on his way to work at as a vet during WWI. He brought Winnie along with him across the Atlantic Ocean to remind him and the other Canadian soldiers of their home. Once he was called upon to join the fighting in France, he left Winnie at the London Zoo to keep her safe. There, a little boy named Christopher Robin Milne visited and befriended her and even named his own stuffed …
Fairytale Retellings #4: Cold Spell, Aylea Stephens
Fairytale Retellings #4: Cold Spell, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Kai and Ginny were best friends for most of their lives, but now they are more than friends, in love, and have every intention of running away together. One night, however, Kai goes off with a stranger named Mora. Ginny discovers that Mora is the Snow Queen through the help of Kai’s grandmother who had an encounter with her when she was a teenager. Ginny decides to do whatever it takes to go after Kai and get him back, but she soon realizes that even in the United States there is a world of monsters and villains that she never …
Earmuffs For Everyone! How Chester Greenwood Became Known A The Inventor Of Earmuffs, Abigail Packard
Earmuffs For Everyone! How Chester Greenwood Became Known A The Inventor Of Earmuffs, Abigail Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Earmuffs for Everyone! is the fun story of how Chester Greenwood “invented” earmuffs. You see, he technically wasn’t the first person to invent covers for people’s ears. But he was the one to improve earmuffs so that they stayed snugly on people’s heads. McCarthy has filtered through the folklore surrounding Greenwood to bring us the chronology of the invention of the earmuff, Greenwood’s eventual patent of the earmuff we know now, and Greenwood’s journey into Maine folklore and even into Maine’s holiday calendar.
Chicka Chicka 1 2 3, Sydnee Burr
Chicka Chicka 1 2 3, Sydnee Burr
Children's Book and Media Review
In a lap-sized board book, the Chicka Chicka classic strikes again. Chicka Chicka 1 2 3 acts as a counting companion to the classic children's Chicka Chicka Boom Boom book. Parents and teachers can utilize this vibrant and catchy tool to teach their preschoolers and toddlers how to count and to help them discover the entertainment found in learning new things and revisiting old ones.
Cat & Bunny, Sydnee Burr
Cat & Bunny, Sydnee Burr
Children's Book and Media Review
Cat and Bunny are heartwarming best friends. They have always done everything together and it has been just the two of them. They always have each other whether they are playing, imagining, running, skipping, or having adventures. There is plenty of fun to go around with just the two of them. So what happens when someone else asks if they can play? Bunny responds well, and Cat learns to respond well and also learns that with more friends more fun is possible.
Bunnies!!!, Amanda Judd
Bunnies!!!, Amanda Judd
Children's Book and Media Review
Bunnies!!! is the story of an adorable little monster who just wants to play. This friendly little monster is just going for a stroll saying hello to everything he sees: trees, clouds, rocks, a stump, and BUNNIES! Because he is a monster, the bunnies might be scared of him. But all monster wants to do is make friends and play too.
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen And The Churchill Club, Carlie Smith
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen And The Churchill Club, Carlie Smith
Children's Book and Media Review
Knud Pedersen and the nine other schoolboys of the Churchill Club are Danish national heroes. Initially frustrated by their countrymen’s acceptance of the Nazi occupation, they secretly sabotage German war efforts. Winston Churchill and the Royal Air Force are their inspiration. For more than a year they destroy property and steal weapons. The Club is eventually discovered and imprisoned for more than two years. They face this challenge just as bravely and even orchestrate several escape attempts. When they are released, they find that their sacrifices have inspired nationwide resistance that severely hampers the German occupation. The war concludes with …
Bone Gap, Cynthia Frazier
Bone Gap, Cynthia Frazier
Children's Book and Media Review
Finn and Sean live in Bone Gap, a small town where everyone knows everything about everyone else. Of course the town knows that their mother left them after their father died and ran away with an orthodontist, and that Sean put aside his dream of becoming a doctor to take care of Finn until he graduated from High School. The town knows all about Priscilla (Petey) the beekeeper’s daughter, but they don’t really know who she is inside. The town thinks they know about Roza, a beautiful woman who mysteriously appeared, became beloved by all who met her, and then …
Because Of Winn-Dixie, Sydnee Burr
Because Of Winn-Dixie, Sydnee Burr
Children's Book and Media Review
10-year-old Opal is lonely. She doesn't have a mom, and her busy, preacher father just moved her from home to a new plot of trailer park in Florida. However, everything changes for Opal when she spontaneously adopts a big, ugly, dirty dog. This messy dog was making a ruckus in the local grocery store, Winn-Dixie. The furious manager was looking for an owner to blame, when Opal claimed the dog was hers, and named it on the spot Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie, Opal stumbles into new friends and begins a journey of self-discovery, finally allowing herself to let go of …
Beautiful Idols #1: Unrivaled, Kati Penovich
Beautiful Idols #1: Unrivaled, Kati Penovich
Children's Book and Media Review
The bright spotlight of fame and flashing cameras sometimes hide the darkest secrets. Unrivaled introduces four teenagers whose fates seem to be mysteriously intertwined. All four have high ambitions: Layla wants to be a journalist, Aster wants to be an actress, Tommy wants to be a rock star, and while Madison Brooks may already be at the top of the Hollywood food chain, she wants to keep her fame while somehow hiding the skeletons of her past. These determined teenagers are sucked into the glamorous Hollywood nightclub scene and pulled together by a cutthroat competition with the promise of riches …