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I See London, I See France, Katie Irion Dec 2018

I See London, I See France, Katie Irion

Children's Book and Media Review

Nineteen-year-old Sydney has spent most of her life caring for her agoraphobic mother, but when her best friend, Leela, decides to tour Europe for a month and begs Sydney to come, she throws caution to the wind and embarks upon an unforgettable adventure. Over the course of the next four and half weeks, she and Leela explore Europe while navigating their hearts and their friendship. Their adventure starts off a bit rocky when they discover Leela's ex-boyfriend Matt on their plane, and it gets even rockier when Sydney meets Matt's traveling companion, Jackson and falls hard for him. Leela and …

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I Hate Picture Books, Bailey Ondricek Dec 2018

I Hate Picture Books, Bailey Ondricek

Children's Book and Media Review

Max hates his picture books. They’re always getting him in trouble! Green ham was NOT a good idea, eating it made him throw up all over the kitchen. Book after book has caused a different problem for Max, so he has decided to throw them all away. That is, until he remembers just how much he loves them after all.

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How To Love, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

How To Love, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Reena and Sawyer have known each other their whole lives, and Reena has loved Sawyer for about that long. In high school, she pined after him, especially when her best friend began dating him. After a tragedy, Reena and Sawyer come together and fall deeply in love. Then one day, Sawyer leaves without telling anyone where he's going or when he'll return. Reena is left behind, newly pregnant and upset about the loss of a future she could have had. Nearly two years later, Sawyer returns and expects to be able to waltz back into Reena's life, just like that. …

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How Oscar Indigo Broke The Universe (And Put It Back Together Again), Kelly Garcia Dec 2018

How Oscar Indigo Broke The Universe (And Put It Back Together Again), Kelly Garcia

Children's Book and Media Review

Oscar Indigo loves baseball. He's on the Wildcats team, but no matter how hard he tries in practices, he never gets to play during the games. One day his neighbor, Miss Ellington, gives him a mysterious, magical watch that changes his life forever. Oscar uses the watch during a baseball game to help his team win, but little does he know how much that affects the universe. Two men in black suits show up at his house and show him just how much he changed the universe from that one moment during the game. Oscar sets off on an adventure …

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Hop Up! Wriggle Over!, Loretta Farnsworth Dec 2018

Hop Up! Wriggle Over!, Loretta Farnsworth

Children's Book and Media Review

The picture book Hop Up! Wriggle Over! depicts the day of a large family of assorted Australian animals. They wake up their mother figure, a koala, and eat breakfast and go to the park. Then they are picked up by their father figure, a kangaroo, and go home, eat dinner, and go to bed. The actions throughout the book are depicted through pictures and simple words. Waking up is summarized as “Hop up! Wriggle over! Wakey, wakey. Hungry!” The entire book consists of this style of broken phrases, most without punctuation. The last page includes the names of all the …

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Honk! Splat! Vroom!, Sydnee Burr Dec 2018

Honk! Splat! Vroom!, Sydnee Burr

Children's Book and Media Review

Using only onomatopoeia, Gott creates a lively and entertaining tale of a car race and tells a story of overcoming obstacles. The blue race-car mouse gets a late start because the dust the other cars kick up makes him sneeze. Then all the other mice get stuck in some mud while the blue car mouse careens ahead. Before the blue race-car mouse can celebrate for too long, another obstacle comes along, and he continues to leapfrog his way to the end of the race.

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Grumpy Monkey, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

Grumpy Monkey, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

All of Jim Panzee's friends think he is grumpy and tell him so. Jim insists to each of his friends that he is NOT grumpy. Everything is just off. He tries to fake a good mood with a big smile and raised eyebrows, and all kinds of fun activities, but nothing changes how he feels inside. He feels bad for yelling at everyone and he thinks his friend, Norman the gorilla, might be grumpy too, but the gorilla had a sore tush from a porcupine. Norman and Jim decide that it is a good day to be grumpy. They start …

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George, Amanda Bishop Dec 2018

George, Amanda Bishop

Children's Book and Media Review

George is the story of a young girl who, biologically, was born male. Everyone sees George as if she were a boy, but George knows that inside she is female. George sees her opportunity to let the world know who she really is inside when the school play is announced. She desperately wants to be cast as Charlotte in the upcoming school play, but her teachers and fellow classmates don’t think that a boy should play Charlotte. With the help of her best friend, Kelly, George devises a plan to show everyone that she can make a great Charlotte. She …

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Fun Experiments With Electricity, Kylee Hackney Dec 2018

Fun Experiments With Electricity, Kylee Hackney

Children's Book and Media Review

Fun Experiments with Electricity is filled with amazing science experiments that are perfect for kids to explore as they’re learning about the basics of electricity. Toothbrush robots, potato power, and man-made lightning are just a few of the twelve exciting projects included. Each project includes the materials needs, step-by-step instructions, detailed illustrations, and a kid-friendly science explanation. The book also includes a glossary, fun facts about electricity, and a safety guide.

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Finding Somplace, Amanda Bishop Dec 2018

Finding Somplace, Amanda Bishop

Children's Book and Media Review

With her thirteenth birthday approaching, Reesie is expecting new changes and opportunities. She isn’t expecting her home to be destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Her mother, a nurse, and her father, a police officer, disagree on whether or not to leave the city before the storm hits, but neither are able to leave when things get desperate. Separated from her mother and father, Reesie finds refuge with her neighbors, and they do everything they can do to survive the rising flood waters. Reesie has to find her parents through the disarray and chaos. After being reunited with her parents, her mother …

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Felix Yz, Amanda Bishop Dec 2018

Felix Yz, Amanda Bishop

Children's Book and Media Review

Felix isn’t like anyone else on the planet. That’s because Felix was fused with a fourth-dimensional being, Zyx, when he was three years old. But now the scientists say that unless he and this being are separated, they both might die. Felix Yz is written in diary form that tracks the month before the procedure will take place. Felix shares his fears and his hopes, as well as the history behind his condition. Not only is Felix coping with the stress of not knowing if he or Zyx will survive the procedure, he is also confronting his feelings for a …

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Far From The Tree, Emma Patton Dec 2018

Far From The Tree, Emma Patton

Children's Book and Media Review

Grace, Maya, and Joaquin are three teenagers living independent lives. But when events in Grace’s life prompt her to start looking for her birth mother and possible birth siblings, she finds Maya and then Joaquin and breaks the news that the three of them have the same biological mother. Though the three siblings came this far in their life without knowing one another, they soon create strong family bonds and re-discover what it means to be a sister or a brother. The three are in a unique position: they will always be biologically related, but they have the opportunity to …

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Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lite Up The World, Jamie Greenwood Dec 2018

Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lite Up The World, Jamie Greenwood

Children's Book and Media Review

Nikola Tesla has a dream: to turn the power of Niagara Falls into electricity. Nikola works hard to achieve his dream, first by attending college. Afterwards, he travels Europe seeking the funds to develop a way to use alternating current. He has little success, and so he sails to America to pitch his idea to Thomas Edison. Unfortunately, Edison also rejects his idea, and Nikola becomes his greatest rival. Nikola’s fame grows when he is chosen to wire the Chicago World’s Fair, which will be the first fair ever lit with electricity. For the next several years, Nikola works on …

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Ducks Away!, Beverly Jones Dec 2018

Ducks Away!, Beverly Jones

Children's Book and Media Review

Ducks Away! is a creative counting tale about a mother duck and her five ducklings. When the duck family begins to cross a bridge, the ducklings take a tumble, and one by one they end up in the water below. The mother duck must come to their rescue and join them in the water. In the end, the ducklings are so happy to be reunited with their mom.

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Driving By Starlight, Emma Patton Dec 2018

Driving By Starlight, Emma Patton

Children's Book and Media Review

As a Saudi Arabian woman, Leena experiences many restrictions. She has a rebellious spirit, but her government is strict, and rebellion doesn't just mean expulsion from school. Sometimes, it could even lead to arrest. It is Leena’s senior year of high school and, though she is comfortable with taking risks, she knows that if she has any hope for a freer life, she can’t get in too much trouble. It is difficult for Leena to show any submission when her own father is a rebel and symbol of the resistance, though he has been locked up since Leena was little. …

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Dragonbreath: When Fairies Go Bad, Erica Sonzogni Dec 2018

Dragonbreath: When Fairies Go Bad, Erica Sonzogni

Children's Book and Media Review

Danny’s mother is kidnapped by fairies, and it is up to Danny and his friends, Wendell and Christiana, to save her. The three enter the fairy realm and must go through a variety of challenges in order to rescue Danny's mom. The trio encounters talking shrubs, a fox, and a fairy that curses Christiana. After many twists and turns, they rescue Mrs. Dragonbreath and are able to return home.

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Donuts: The Hole Story, Haley Singleton Dec 2018

Donuts: The Hole Story, Haley Singleton

Children's Book and Media Review

In this quick-paced tale, the reader follows the activities of donuts in a donut shop after the shop has closed. There are many characters, each a donut shop favorite. From iced donuts to glazed, powdered to sprinkled, they all enjoy their time out of the display case. There has been a robbery of golden sprinkles and the robber must be caught. The cops, in their donut car, chase down the burglar and retrieve the sprinkles. In the end, they realize that when the store opens they will all be eaten and they come together to create an escape plan.

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Disgusting Critters: The Slug, Erica Sonzogni Dec 2018

Disgusting Critters: The Slug, Erica Sonzogni

Children's Book and Media Review

Slugs eat lettuce. Slugs do not have arms and legs, only a body that helps them to move which is called a “foot." Slugs will dry out so they need to live under rocks and in moist places. These are just some of the facts that students will read about in The Slug. In this short book, students learn a variety of facts with cartoon illustrations to aid comprehension. It explains how even though slugs seem disgusting, their features are crucial to their survival. Additionally, slugs are important to our environment, helping plants grow.

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Dear Dumb Diary, Deluxe: Dumbness Is A Dish Best Served Cold, Haley Singleton Dec 2018

Dear Dumb Diary, Deluxe: Dumbness Is A Dish Best Served Cold, Haley Singleton

Children's Book and Media Review

Jamie Kelly has written in her Dumb Diary about another humorous adventure. Angeline, one of Jamie's friends, has a new idea for a business! She wants to make and sell health plates that show the correct portions of every food group. Jamie and Isabella help Angeline run tests and make prototypes to sell these plates, but they are unsuccessful. They soon find out that Angeline's father has lost his job and she is trying to make money to help the family. They work together to find a solution and create an even better product to sell, making them each richer …

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Crash! Boom! A Math Tale, Haley Singleton Dec 2018

Crash! Boom! A Math Tale, Haley Singleton

Children's Book and Media Review

A young elephant attempts to build a tower of blocks that can stand as tall as he is. His first attempt is wobbly and falls after just a few moments, but he is not deterred. He continues to try and his second attempt is successful, but tumbles after he accidentally bumps into it. He laughs and makes another successful attempt, learning more about how to build sturdy towers that can free stand successfully.

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Counting On Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

Counting On Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

Katherine Johnson is fascinated with numbers. She loves to explore them and figure out the patterns of the universe with them. Her dream is to become a mathematician; however, because of segregation and racial issues, she faces many challenges along the way. Eventually, she is hired by NASA and gains promotion after promotion until she is working on important space missions, like Apollo 11. When Apollo 13 has a problem in space, Katherine is the one who does the calculations to bring it home safely. Her love for numbers and the stars coupled with her willingness to persevere helps mankind …

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Caraval, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

Caraval, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Scarlett has longed to participate in Caraval for as long as she can remember. She has written to the host of Caraval each year with hopes of receiving tickets for herself and for her sister, Donatella. One day, with barely a week before her wedding, the Caraval tickets arrive. Scarlett is afraid to miss her wedding even though she has never met her groom, but Donatella tricks her into going. This year's Caraval game will separate the sisters and require both of them to be willing to sacrifice everything in order to win. The final prize is a wish for …

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Bob, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

Bob, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Olivia is staying at her Grandmother's home in Australia while her mother and the baby travel to see some of her Mom's old friends. Things seem strange when she comes into the house—it is not familiar at all. She feels pulled toward her old bedroom, especially the closet. When she opens the closet doors she finds Bob. Bob is green, wearing red feetie pajamas with chicken feathers taped all over. Poor Bob has been waiting for five years in the closet for Olivia to return and help him find where he is from and what he is. One by one …

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Black Beauty, Beverly Jones Dec 2018

Black Beauty, Beverly Jones

Children's Book and Media Review

Anna Sewell's famous story Black Beauty was published in 1877. This retelling by Ruth Brown is an adaptation that mimics Sewell's classic story in an abridged version. This story is unique because it is told from a horse's point of view. Black Beauty's life was not always a happy one. The horse was passed from owner to owner and they were not always kind. This book brings awareness to the proper treatment of animals.

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Beatrice Spells Some Lulus And Learns To Write A Letter, Katherine Martin Dec 2018

Beatrice Spells Some Lulus And Learns To Write A Letter, Katherine Martin

Children's Book and Media Review

Spelling doesn’t come easy to young Beatrice. But when Nana Hannah comes to visit, Beatrice discovers that she can be a great speller—it just comes with a lot of practice. Spelling everything around her from C-E-R-E-A-L to T-O-O-T-H-P-A-S-T-E, Beatrice becomes a lulu of a speller. She starts to notice that not everyone around town is that great a spelling. Trying to correct their mistakes, the spelling bug gets passed from Beatrice to her classmates and they join in on the fun.

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Be A King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'S Dream And You, Kylee Hackney Dec 2018

Be A King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'S Dream And You, Kylee Hackney

Children's Book and Media Review

Walking in the ways of bravery and boldness, Be A King relates the life of Martin Luther King Jr. to the lives of children today. Alternating from the events of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life to a modern classroom of students creating a historical mural, we learn how we can be leaders in our day to day interactions. Standing up for peace, believing in our cause and lifting up the less fortunate are just a few influential ways Dr. King was able to change the world. As the students create their work of art, they realize how significant their actions …

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Ballywhinney Girl, Jamie Greenwood Dec 2018

Ballywhinney Girl, Jamie Greenwood

Children's Book and Media Review

While Maeve and her grandfather are in the bogs near their home in Ballywhinney, Ireland, they find a mummified body of a young girl buried deep in the bog. Soon a team of archaeologists from Dublin arrives to investigate. They tell Maeve that the body is over a thousand years old. Mauve is unnerved and full of curiosity about the young girl. The archaeologists take the mummy to their lab in Dublin to run tests. They name her “The Ballywhinney Girl” and put her on display in a museum in Dublin. Mauve visits the body in the museum to say …

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Almost Adulting: All You Need To Know To Get It Together (Sort Of), Bailey Ondricek Dec 2018

Almost Adulting: All You Need To Know To Get It Together (Sort Of), Bailey Ondricek

Children's Book and Media Review

Viral YouTuber Arden Rose chronicles her personal experiences with accompanying advice for the young and bewildered adult. Raised with highly religious parents, Arden finds herself departing from their views for a markedly more modern, internet-fueled, liberal perspective on life, sex, and personal expression. She allows the reader to share some of the more intimate details of her self-image, compulsive disorder, sexual explorations, home decor and even bill paying with detailed accounts accompanied by personal life mantras.

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All Summer Long, Bailey Ondricek Dec 2018

All Summer Long, Bailey Ondricek

Children's Book and Media Review

Bina and Austin have been best friends since birth. Fast forward thirteen years to the summer before eighth grade, and something is up… Austin suddenly seems too old for the fun traditions he and Bina have kept up over the years, and Bina is starting to wonder if he even wants to be her friend anymore. This dynamic graphic novel catalogs Bina’s summer, including her developing relationships with friends, family, and music.

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A World Of Her Own: 24 Amazing Women Explorers And Adventurers, Leah Christopher Dec 2018

A World Of Her Own: 24 Amazing Women Explorers And Adventurers, Leah Christopher

Children's Book and Media Review

Join twenty-four women explorers and adventurers as they dive into the deep sea, summit Mt. Everest and other peaks, discover new plants and animals, cross the world in a yacht, explore the Amazon River, catch venomous snakes, save endangered species, and venture through forest canopies. These women are diverse, coming from various countries, ethnicities, family situations, age groups, time periods, and career fields. Although each woman’s path is different, they share a love for nature and discovery—and they all have to overcome others’ doubts about their abilities. These motivating accounts can transform readers’ thinking about the great potential women have …

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