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Pendragon: The Merchant Of Death, Torin Kelley
Pendragon: The Merchant Of Death, Torin Kelley
Children's Book and Media Review
When Bobby, a normal kid of fourteen, suddenly disappears, his friends have absolutely no idea what had happened. That is, until Bobby magically sends them a journal telling them about his adventures. Bobby had left with his Uncle Press to go save a people that was suffering from oppression on a world in a different time and space. He must learn to adapt quickly to the challenges that lay ahead of him and combat the evil Saint Dane, a man with no other objective than to cause chaos. Bobby soon learns that his job is to not only save a …
Paddington In The Garden, Aylea Stephens
Paddington In The Garden, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
While Paddington is in the garden making a list of all of the nice things about being a bear and living with the Browns, he realizes that one of the nicest things of all is the garden. Jonathan, Judy, and Paddington each have a piece of the garden to take care of, and Paddington discovers that gardening is much harder than it looks. He buys a book and then sits at a high spot so that he can see the garden area from a distance and his jar of marmalade gets covered by construction equipment. With some help from the …
Paddington #4: Paddington Abroad, Aylea Stephens
Paddington #4: Paddington Abroad, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
When Mr. Brown announces that the family will be going to France for their summer holiday, Paddington is excited to take his first real holiday, especially when he is put in charge of the itinerary. He decides that going on holiday is a special occasion so he takes money out of the bank, gets stuck talking to customs over some confusion about a passport, makes a meal of escargot for the family, visits a fortune teller, goes fishing, and joins the Tour de France before returning home to London.
Paddington #3: Paddington Helps Out, Aylea Stephens
Paddington #3: Paddington Helps Out, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Paddington can’t seem to stop having misadventures in his life in London. In one adventure, Paddington falls in a river and loses his hat, but manages to rescue it in the end. Paddington attends an auction, tries to make a magazine rack, does laundry, and goes to the cinema for the first time. He even tries to cook dinner and take care of Mr. and Mrs. Brown when they get ill. No matter what he tries to do, Paddington runs into trouble, but always comes out with a positive attitude and a good experience.
Paddington #2: More About Paddington, Aylea Stephens
Paddington #2: More About Paddington, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Paddington is still living with the Browns and still inadvertently causing a lot of trouble. Although his intentions are always good, his plans always go wrong! Each chapter of the book tells a different story about the charming troublemaker from Darkest Peru. He tries to become a detective, a house painter, a snowbear, and a photographer. He learns about different holiday traditions like Guy Fawkes Day and Christmas, and does his best to adapt to these new ideas. Although he tends to cause trouble, the Brown family is glad to have him around.
One White Dolphin, Emily Loveless
One White Dolphin, Emily Loveless
Children's Book and Media Review
With her father out of work, her aunt’s patience waning fast, and the local fishermen chomping at the bit to dredge the reef the moment the ban lifts, everything Kara remembers of her mother is on the edge of changing in the worst way possible. Then a baby albino dolphin, wrapped in old fishing net, washes up on the beach and Kara begins to think that there may be a way to save the reef and her mother’s memory. With new kid Felix and the vets, Kara works to save the injured dolphin and reunite it with its mother. When …
Omega City, Aylea Stephens
Omega City, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Gillian Seagret knows that almost everyone thinks her father is a crackpot, but she doesn’t believe them. To her, his Cold War conspiracy theories about the lost technology of Dr. Aloysius Underberg are legitimate and “they” are out to destroy his credibility. When she finds a missing page of Dr. Underberg’s diary, Gillian is convinced that she has found the start of a space-themed puzzle that will help her prove that her father was right and lead the way to Dr. Underberg’s most important invention. With the help of her younger brother, Eric, her best friend, Savannah, Howard, a classmate …
The Mediator #1: Shadowland, Whitney Troxel
The Mediator #1: Shadowland, Whitney Troxel
Children's Book and Media Review
Susannah Simon, or Suze to everyone but a select few, is not your average teenage girl. She's a mediator, which means she can see and speak to ghosts. However, Suze hopes moving across the country to live with her new step-family could be the start of a new, ghost-free life. That hope quickly disappears when she walks into her new home and discovers Jesse, the unfairly attractive 150-year-old ghost haunting her room. Things get even worse when Suze meets Heather, a vengeful ghost of a former student at her school. Ignoring the advice of Father Dominic, another mediator and the …
Let's Sew: Learn To Sew With 12 Easy Projects, Rachel Wadham
Let's Sew: Learn To Sew With 12 Easy Projects, Rachel Wadham
Children's Book and Media Review
Sewing is not only a practical skill, but its fun to do and this lighthearted introduction captures both of those purposes. The basics are first clearly outlined teaching readers how to thread a needle and showing them how to sew a running stitch and a back-stitch. From there ten simple and fun projects allow readers to practice their skills to make stuffed animals, bags, water bottle holders, and accessories. The step by step photographs and text explanations break each project down into its component parts while still allowing for readers to apply their own creative touches.
Lemonade War #5: The Magic Trap, Aylea Stephens
Lemonade War #5: The Magic Trap, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Jessie and Evan Treski are excited about magic, so Evan decides that he’s going to put on a magic show. Their mom is getting ready to go on a trip when their dad, a war reporter and very good at doing disappearing acts on his own, shows up unexpectedly. When their babysitter has an accident, their dad agrees to watch the kids while their mom is gone. Their dad tries to be helpful with the show by getting them a rabbit and a magic box, but he leaves before the show for work, leaving Evan and Jessie by themselves. When …
How To Catch A Bogle #3: The Last Bogler, Tessa Mcmillan
How To Catch A Bogle #3: The Last Bogler, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
After Alfred loses both Birdie and Jem to an acting company, he is left with Ned Roach to be his final apprentice. However, Ned is not a bad choice. Ned is enthusiastic and inventive as the pair tackles more official bogling jobs due to their status in The Committee for the Regulation of Subterranean Anomalies. During one bogling job, Ned kills his first bogle, but accidentally destroys Alfred’s legendary spear. Alfred and Ned find out how to create similar spears and they share their knowledge with the committee. Armed with their own poisoned weapons, the committee plans for a largescale …
I Represent Sean Rosen, Aylea Stephens
I Represent Sean Rosen, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Sean Rosen makes funny videos online, but he’s also full of great ideas for movies, TV shows, and games that he knows would be big hits if they were produced by the biggest companies in Hollywood. He soon discovers that he doesn’t know anyone in Hollywood and without those connections, it’s difficult to get a start in the big companies. Still, he decides that he can be his own manager to get what he wants. He contacts different companies and manages to land an offer from one of his most desired companies. As he goes, he has to figure out …
The Ghosts Of Heaven, Paige Price
The Ghosts Of Heaven, Paige Price
Children's Book and Media Review
What does a prehistoric ritual, a medieval witch-hunt, a turn-of-the-century mental hospital, and a hundred-year journey through space all have in common? In this book, the reader is taken on a journey to answer this question. It begins with a young prehistoric girl hoping to be chosen as the apprentice to an old man who wields magic. She embarks on a journey with him, and in the end discovers that life has a much greater meaning than she first believed. Next, a young woman accused of being a witch. She, like in the first story, begins to understand the never-ending …
The Fog Diver, Aylea Stephens
The Fog Diver, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
In this version of the future, a deadly white mist covers the earth except for the highest mountain peaks. Wealthy families rule the liveable parts of the world, while others like Chess and his friends struggle to make ends meet by diving into the fog and finding things to sell. Chess has an unusual ability to see through the fog, but soon he learns that his ability has a dark secret and Lord Kodoc, one of the rulers of the sky they float through on airships, will do anything to get Chess in his possession. To save the people he …
Emeraldalicious, Aylea Stephens
Emeraldalicious, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
When Pinkalicious breaks her tiara and wand in the park, she and her brother, Peter, come up with a solution to fix it. Using sticks, vines, and flowers she is able to create a magic wand, then creates a crown and a cape with flowers and leaves to become the princess of flowers. When they find a large pile of garbage, they decide to continue creating useful things out of it so that the garbage doesn’t stay there. With the magic word “love” they are able to turn the garbage into beautiful things, including turning the garbage dump into an …
Dear Hank Williams, Nancy Haight
Dear Hank Williams, Nancy Haight
Children's Book and Media Review
It’s 1948. Tate P. Ellerbee, age eleven, lives in a small town in Louisiana with her great-aunt, great-uncle, and younger brother, nicknamed Frog. Every Saturday night, Tate’s family listens to Hank Williams, a rising star on the radio program Louisiana Hayride, and Tate just knows she and he are kindred spirits. So, when Tate’s teacher begins the school year by asking the students to write to a pen pal, Tate knows just who to choose. Tate introduces herself, her family, and members of the town to Hank through the letters she writes. She is determined to sing like her mother, …
Abcmouse.Com, Cynthia Phillips
Abcmouse.Com, Cynthia Phillips
Children's Book and Media Review
ABCmouse.com is an online learning center for children ages 2-7. It has received the “Mom’s Choice GOLD Award,” “Teachers’ Choice Award”, and “Parents’ Choice GOLD Award.” There are thousands of games and learning activities included in the site. The children can learn using the designated learning path or explore individual activities on their own. The website is designed to follow your child’s development so that the activities are appropriate for their age and abilities. The children earn tickets for each activity and can trade them in for products in the “store” such as virtual pets, clothing for their avatar, or …
A Tyranny Of Petticoats, Kiersten Carr
A Tyranny Of Petticoats, Kiersten Carr
Children's Book and Media Review
A compilation of 15 short stories about American women, A Tyranny of Petticoats features tough, brave, practical female characters from time periods spanning the early 1700’s to 1968. Each created by a different YA author, the characters run the gamut from pirates to protesters, belles to bank robbers, students, teachers, sisters and supernatural beings. An unsparing portrait of women’s often-neglected place in history, the stories also highlight each character’s determination to make her own story whatever the opposition.
The 7d Mine Train, Aylea Stephens
The 7d Mine Train, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Based on the show “The 7D” on Disney XD, this game takes players into the world of the Seven Dwarfs on their exciting mine train tracks. Players can pick a dwarf, upgrade their carts, unlock special power ups to help avoid obstacles and complete the missions, and collect gems to be able to go on more adventures. Players can use in-app purchases to unlock the ability to start out with all seven dwarfs and to buy other items to enhance game play, but it is easy to play the game without spending any real money.
Zen Socks, Aylea Stephens
Zen Socks, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Leo and Molly love their new neighborhood, and especially their neighbor, a panda named Stillwater. Stillwater gives their cat, Moss, a ride in his bike, dances ballet with Molly, tells stories to the children to teach them about hard work and patience, and demonstrates the importance of not being selfish, especially if there is something that he wants. Through the lessons that Stillwater teaches them in their daily activities, Leo and Molly learn about being good people and that making a difference to just one thing or one person is enough.
Tiny Rabbit's Big Wish, Ariel Woodbury
Tiny Rabbit's Big Wish, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Tiny Rabbit wants to be big! He wishes that he will grow to have "legs as tall as trees" and a tail as big as a mountain. He wishes and wishes to be big! But tiny rabbit only grows a little bit. Then tiny rabbit wishes to be strong as a gorilla. But he is still just a tiny rabbit. Tiny rabbit doesn't get very much bigger, stronger or taller, but his ears grow a lot. They let him hear all sorts of sounds and other animals. He learns to appreciate the benefits of being small, like being able to …
The Story Of Owen, Aylea Stephens
The Story Of Owen, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
There aren’t a lot of dragon slayers in their tiny Canadian town, but when Owen and his family shows up, Siobhan’s life changes as she becomes his bard to chronicle his adventures. She helps him with his algebra while she’s working on her music skills. Before she expects it, however, she’s on a quest with him to discover why there are so many dragons in the area and what they can do to stop it. She discovers her own role in Owen’s story, and that even a bard can have a huge impact on how the Story of Owen will …
Step Gently Out, Ariel Woodbury
Step Gently Out, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
This book introduces you to many of the small and sometimes unnoticed creatures that live around us. If we are quiet and still, then we can see them.
The Princess In Black #3: The Princess In Black And The Hungry Bunny Horde, Aylea Stephens
The Princess In Black #3: The Princess In Black And The Hungry Bunny Horde, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Princess Magnolia and her unicorn, Frumplepants, are on their way to brunch with Princess Sneezewort when Princess Magnolia’s ring alerts her that there are monsters around. It is time for her to turn into the Princess in Black and for Frumplepants to turn into Blacky! When she goes to fight the monsters, however, all she sees are adorable bunnies. Duff the Goat Boy tries to convince her that the bunnies are dangerous when they are trying to eat all the grass, trees, and even his goats, but the Princess in Black is too enthralled by their cuteness to care until …
Lost In The Sun, Aylea Stephens
Lost In The Sun, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Trent’s world is shattered when he accidentally kills a kick with a hockey puck because of the kid’s previously unknown health-conditions. Even months after the accident, Trent feels alone and can’t handle playing sports anymore. His one connection to people his age after he quits sports is his new friend, Fallon. They watch movies together and she tries to convince him to draw the different stories about her mysterious scar, but she won’t tell him how she actually got it. Trent struggles with his dad, his family, his temper, and school as he tries to figure out how to cope …
Lone Bean, Ariel Woodbury
Lone Bean, Ariel Woodbury
Children's Book and Media Review
Bean is excited to start third grade, but when she arrives at school her best friend, Carla, only wants to play with Sam. Bean struggles to to fit in and find a new friend, even though she really just wants her old best friend back. To make matters worse, Bean's father wants her to learn an instrument. Bean hates it, especially since she isn't very good and her sisters tease her. Bean's loneliness makes her make some bad choices in who her friends are and get in some trouble. By the time Bean has her first rehearsal, she has learned …
Kat, Incorrigible, Aylea Stephens
Kat, Incorrigible, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Katherine Ann Stephenson tries to dress up as a boy and run away to help solve her family’s troubles when she is twelve, but she is stopped before she can get out of the yard. That doesn’t stop her from trying to do what she can to help her family, and when she discovers that she has inherited her mother’s magical gifts, she wants to use that magic to help them. She soon learns that magic is more complicated than it appears, and different people have different options about how she and the people she cares about should or shouldn’t …
Kat Incorrigible #2: Renegade Magic, Aylea Stephens
Kat Incorrigible #2: Renegade Magic, Aylea Stephens
Children's Book and Media Review
Kat’s world is turned upside-down when her sister Elissa’s wedding is ruined by Frederick Carlyle’s mother. When his mother refuses to let him marry Angeline and announces to everyone that the girls in the family are witches, Stepmama takes all of the Stephensons to Bath, hoping that Angeline can get married to an eligible suitor before the word spreads about the family. Kat is thrown out of the Guardians Order, but at Bath she finds connections to magic that the Guardians are ignoring. Kat uses her wits and determination to save her family and find the person responsible for manipulating …
How To Catch A Bogle, Tessa Mcmillan
How To Catch A Bogle, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
Ten-year-old Birdie McAdam is in a dangerous apprenticeship working to destroy London’s bogles. These child-eating demons hide out in various places waiting to pounce on any unsuspecting juvenile victim. The bogler, Alfred Bunce, and Birdie have steady employment since it’s such a rare profession. Soon their work catches the attention of Miss Edith Eames, an educated woman who thinks there are more scientific approaches to killing bogles than using young Birdie as bait. One bogling job tests all their limits when extortionist leader, Sarah Pickles, hires Alfred and Birdie to eliminate a bogle inside a home where several of Sarah’s …
How I Learned Geography, Tessa Mcmillan
How I Learned Geography, Tessa Mcmillan
Children's Book and Media Review
After war destroys their home in Europe, a young boy and his parents find refuge in Central Asia. The boy’s small family live in a one-room house made from clay, straw, and camel dung. They share their home with a couple they do not know. Life is hard as they try to handle living in such a foreign place. At the end of a long, hunger-filled day, the boy’s father returns from the bazaar with a large world map and a very small piece of bread. The boy is angry at his father for not bringing home enough food. But …