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A Lion Is A Lion, Sydnee Burr Dec 2018

A Lion Is A Lion, Sydnee Burr

Children's Book and Media Review

Is a lion still a lion if he wears a hat? And what about if he carries an umbrella? Readers follow this silly lion, once fierce, through a series of funny what-ifs, making the lion seem positively innocent and friendly. However, once he's come into your house, danced, sang, and sat down for lunch, he might remember he's a lion, and suddenly his smile turns sharp and scary! So if a lion is still a lion, no matter how it's dressed or how it's acting, you do not need to be polite, you do not need to invite him in, …

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A House That Once Was, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

A House That Once Was, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

In silence with secrets, a house sits nestled in the woods. Two children find it and climb through a broken window and wander and wonder about what this house was and who lived inside. Where have the people gone who used to call this place their home? How long will the house wait for them to come home? They climb back out the window and return to their own cozy home, while back in the forest the little home sits in the weather and waits.

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A House In The Sky: And Other Uncommon Animal Homes, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

A House In The Sky: And Other Uncommon Animal Homes, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

This is a stunningly illustrated non-fiction picture book about where animals live. The picture and images share facts about various mammals, fish, birds, and more. Each page has a general description that parents could use to read through the book quickly with younger readers. It also has more detailed information on the pages as well as in the back of the book, making it interesting to beginning and more advanced young readers as well.

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A History Of Travel In 50 Vehicles, Emilee Bell Dec 2018

A History Of Travel In 50 Vehicles, Emilee Bell

Children's Book and Media Review

Explore the history of ingenuity at its most dynamic through A History of Travel in 50 Vehicles. Spanning hundreds of millennia, Grey tackles the ins and outs of transportation from cultural, economic, social, and environmental perspectives. The book discusses the ethics of human, animal, motor, and elemental powered vehicles. It also considers the ramifications of international communities and unchartered spatial territories in new developing technologies. From rickshaws to jet-packs, bicycles to segways, the ingenuity of mankind is celebrated in this book of fifty milestones in human transportation.

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A Girl Like That, Tessa Ostvig Dec 2018

A Girl Like That, Tessa Ostvig

Children's Book and Media Review

This story is as jarring as its beginning. The book opens at a car crash, showing the mangled bodies of Zarin, the reckless troublemaker, and Porus, a broad-shouldered Indian boy. The book then works backwards, through the perspective of four teens and a cloud of rumors and reputations towards the events leading up to the accident. The story explains how Zarin; orphaned, traumatized, alone, and defiant, became a ‘girl like that.’

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10 True Tales: Surviving Sharks And Other Dangerous Creatures, Erica Sonzogni Dec 2018

10 True Tales: Surviving Sharks And Other Dangerous Creatures, Erica Sonzogni

Children's Book and Media Review

In 10 True Tales: Surviving Sharks, children have crossed paths with different creatures around the world and have traumatic experiences with each. The first chapter explains how fatal incidences with animals are extremely rare compared to everyday accidents or fatal encounters with the domesticated dog. Even so, this chapter explains that allowing animals to roam free in the wild, without being disturbed or harassed by humans, will ensure that these incidences occur less frequently. Each chapter thereafter describes a different animal and a story about how a child was badly hurt by that animal and the events that occurred before, …

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Words And Your Heart, Kylee Hackney Dec 2018

Words And Your Heart, Kylee Hackney

Children's Book and Media Review

Words and Your Heart reminds us just how powerful words can be. The book talks about how words can help us describe detail or explain how things work. They can even be used to influence others positively, depending on how we use them. We can use our words to brighten someone’s day, or inspire them to keep trying when life gets hard. However, if we’re not careful our words can hurt others causing them to feel sad or weak. When we realize how important our words are, we can choose to use them to make the world a happier place!

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Where's The Baby? A Spotting Book, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

Where's The Baby? A Spotting Book, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

This great little book that is full of animals and has a hidden animal baby on each page. Each search begins with a rhyming paragraph about the animal followed by another rhyming paragraph that challenges the reader to find the hidden infant, sometimes with a clue. On the last page the reader's challenge is to find two, twins!

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Whale Talk, Emma Patton Dec 2018

Whale Talk, Emma Patton

Children's Book and Media Review

T.J. Jones is an athlete, but he’s not a jerk. At Cutter High School, athletics are everything, and the best athletes get away with everything, inside and outside of school. When one of T.J.’s favorite teachers recruits him to help form a swimming team, T.J. makes it his mission to turn some of the biggest outcasts in school into athletes. If all of these guys letter in swimming, it will challenge the elitism of Cutter sports. However, he soon comes to see the swim team as more than just an attempt to make the jocks and school board angry. This …

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We Love Dinosaurs, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

We Love Dinosaurs, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Most everybody has loved dinosaurs at some point in their childhood and here is a picture book for this generation of dino-lovers! Each page rhymes with facts about dinosaurs that you may or may not already know. Some are big, some are small. Some eat meat and some like their veggies. Some dinosaurs move quickly while others plod along. This is a poem that shares dino-facts rather than telling a story but it is jolly with it's reasoning that dinosaurs are just plain loveable!

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Water Land: Land And Water Forms Around The World, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

Water Land: Land And Water Forms Around The World, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

Ever wonder what the difference between a bay and a cape was? Or have no idea what the term isthmus means? With uniquely cut pages and a glossary of definitions, this book sets out to help readers understand what the terms we use to refer to land and water forms are and what they mean.

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Various Positions, Lisa Packard Dec 2018

Various Positions, Lisa Packard

Children's Book and Media Review

Fourteen-year-old Georgia eats, sleeps, and breathes ballet. When she is accepted into one of the most prestigious academy's in Toronto, she couldn't be more thrilled. There's just one problem: she's having strange feelings about her ballet instructor, Roderick Allen. As she is training more intensely for a coveted lead role in a ballet, she becomes more and more obsessed with Roderick and fantasizes about having sex with him. On top of her confusing feelings, her parents are acting strange and won't help her understand what's going on. Georgia does the unthinkable and kisses Roderick. By the time Georgia tells the …

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Us, In Progress: Stories About Young Latinos, Bailey Ondricek Dec 2018

Us, In Progress: Stories About Young Latinos, Bailey Ondricek

Children's Book and Media Review

From poverty to health crises, to moving to a new place, Lulu Delacre’s Us in Progress is a collection of short stories that provides a range of life experiences from young latinos/latinas in the United States. Based on true stories that Delacre gathered from news articles and personal experiences, the authenticity of the characters is both relatable and relevant.The stories each begin with a uniquely Spanish saying and a beautiful illustration of the story’s main character. While the stories are punctuated with some Spanish vocabulary, Delacre provides a set of translations in the back, thus making the impactful stories accessible …

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Tuesday, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

Tuesday, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

An ordinary Tuesday becomes a magical evening of flying frogs who drift and leap through adventures. Lily pads lift them away from the pond and float the frogs into the fields, past windows, and back to the pond in the end. On Wednesday the pigs take to the air.

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The Truth About Hippos, Hannah Webb Dec 2018

The Truth About Hippos, Hannah Webb

Children's Book and Media Review

How much do you know about hippos? After reading Maxwell Eaton III’s fun and factual picture book, The Truth About Hippos, you’re guaranteed to know a whole lot more. This book teaches young readers all about the majestic hippopotamus: what they eat, where they live, and some seriously silly facts about their unique habits (including information about hippo poop, which is sure to be a hit with the kids). The facts are accompanied by clever commentary from kids, hippos, and other animals.

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The Truth About Dolphins, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

The Truth About Dolphins, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

Filled with facts about dolphins, The Truth about Dolphins presents information about this popular mammal in an entertaining and engaging manner. In this book readers learn how dolphins breathe, have babies, and echolocate—plus so much more. This has everything you want to know about dolphins in a kid-friendly, funny book!

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The Storymakers #3: Banished, Natalie Hatch Dec 2018

The Storymakers #3: Banished, Natalie Hatch

Children's Book and Media Review

Rexi is in Camelot trying to put an end to Gwen’s tyrannical rule. Modred is helping her in the hopes of using the grail to rewrite his own story. Kato is dead and his body is now being used by Morte to take over the world of Story. Dot wakes up from a coma in Kansas and is told her life in Story is just her imagination. Rexi struggles with the fate of Story as Hydra guides her and Modred through the three trials to reach the wishing well and hopefully reconnect with Dot, but one false answer is fatal. …

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The Storymakers #2: Wanted, Natalie Hatch Dec 2018

The Storymakers #2: Wanted, Natalie Hatch

Children's Book and Media Review

The world of Story is in shambles thanks to Princess Dorthea’s wish. Chimera Mountain has exploded, leaving Kato’s kingdom destroyed and his surviving subjects without a home. Dorthea is struggling with the weight of the curse and the fire within that is driving her closer to the edge, while Rexi is having memories stripped away each time she dies and Dorthea revives her. With little time or options, Kato and Rexi end up in Camelot in search of Excalibur and its ancient magic, but they are not alone. Modred seeks it too and Gwenevere has taken over Camelot for her …

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The Storymakers #1: Spelled, Natalie Hatch Dec 2018

The Storymakers #1: Spelled, Natalie Hatch

Children's Book and Media Review

Princess Dorthea meets Prince Kato at the ball for wishing. It’s hate a first sight, but during the ball, their engagement is announced. Dorthea then makes her wish for the night and turns everything in the world of Story on its heels. Her parents are banished to a foreign world, Kato is turned into a lion-puppy-monster, and she becomes a hunted fugitive with the servant girl Rexi. Dorthea, Kato, and Rexi become an unlikely trio as they run from everyone and try to bring some happily-ever-after magic back to Story.

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The Nightmare Club #2: Mirrored, Haley Cook Dec 2018

The Nightmare Club #2: Mirrored, Haley Cook

Children's Book and Media Review

In this continuation of the Nightmare Club, Annie Graves and the rest of the members meet to listen to the scariest stories imaginable. This story is told by Karen, about her friend Abbey. Karen and Abbey used to be friends, but Karen noticed that Abbey became mean and uninterested in their friendship. Karen explains that Abbey met a girl in her bedroom mirror, named Bee, who became her close friend. She helped spy on her brother and became a confidant to Abbey. Eventually, when frustrated, Abbey and Bee plan on switching places with each other. This decision leads to disastrous …

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The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane, Robyn Lee Dec 2018

The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane, Robyn Lee

Children's Book and Media Review

Edward Tulane is a china rabbit who belongs to a little girl named Abilene. While her family is traveling by ship, Edward is accidentally thrown overboard, where he reflects on his life with Abilene and how he never returned her affection. Eventually Edward is found and taken home by a fisherman and learns to observe his owners and pick up on their emotion. Many years of accidents lead Edward eventually to the shelf of a doll maker. Through this rough life, Edward learns that the true meaning of life lies with the people you love. After years of missing Abilene, …

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The Mighty Dynamo, Katelyn Osborn Dec 2018

The Mighty Dynamo, Katelyn Osborn

Children's Book and Media Review

Noah Murphy wants to be a professional soccer player more than anything in the world. If he can make enough money, his dad can come back from working far away and live with him and his sister again. The way he sees it, the only way to get there is to win the Schools’ World Cup, get scouted, and get on the professional pitch. But then Noah gets banned from his team. Luckily, the Immaculate Conception School for Girls doesn’t have a team yet, and they’re looking for players. Noah’s got a big task ahead of him—he’s got to recruit …

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The Lost Kingdom Of Bamarre, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

The Lost Kingdom Of Bamarre, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

Stolen from the Bamarre as a baby, Perry grows up as royalty in the Lakti kingdom. However, when a fairy reveals Perry's true identity as a Bamarre along with a command to free her people, her father—who once loved her—seeks to kill her. The people of Bamarre start rebelling in small ways, such as pulling the peas to let the weeds grow. When the Lakti take the Bamarre children and send them into battle, Perry, disguised as old Aunt Nadira, goes to save them. There she meets Tove, her old father, and challenges him to a match in exchange for …

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The Itchy Book, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

The Itchy Book, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

A turtle rests in front of a sign that says, "Dinosaurs do not itch." He greets a dinosaur who reads the sign and wonders at it but takes it to be true. Soon his friend, a triceratops comes by with an itch that she wants to scratch. The first dinosaur shows her the sign. Several more dinosaurs read the sign and all of them struggle not to itch. The first dinosaur decides to prove that they do not need to itch. They try everything to make him itch. Finally the turtle wakes up and moves. Now the sign says, "Dinosaurs …

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The Frightful Ride Of Michael Mcmichael, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

The Frightful Ride Of Michael Mcmichael, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

There is something odd about this bus. Not just the people on it, but the bus itself. It is hungry. It is hungry for meat! Michael is undaunted. His grandmother needs her pet and Michael is going to get it to her, no matter what it takes. In a silly twist, Grandma's pet eats the bus driver and Michael McMichael is saved!

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The First Rule Of Punk, Amanda Bishop Dec 2018

The First Rule Of Punk, Amanda Bishop

Children's Book and Media Review

Malú is moving away from her home of Florida to live with her mom in Chicago and leaving behind her record shop-owning, punk rock father. At least Malú has her creativity for making zines to help her navigate the journey. Malú often feels confused about her identity. She refers to her mother as “SuperMexican” because she is always trying to transform rebellious punk Malú into a perfect Mexican señorita. But Malú knows exactly who she wants to be, even if that means she doesn’t always fit into her mom’s vision or how her new classmates will view her. Malú befriends …

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The Crystal Ribbon, Jamie Greenwood Dec 2018

The Crystal Ribbon, Jamie Greenwood

Children's Book and Media Review

Li Jing is a eleven-year-old girl growing up on a poor farm in rural China during the Song Dynasty. Her peers in the small town mock her for her name, because it is so similar to the five-tailed golden fox deity that protects their city: Huli Jing. Despite her father’s assurances that her name is powerful, Jing is embarrassed, but that doesn’t seem to matter as much when suddenly she is sold as a bride for five silver pieces. She marries into the Guo family, where she is the wife and nursemaid of a three-year-old boy named Ju’nan. When her …

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The California Drought, Leah Christopher Dec 2018

The California Drought, Leah Christopher

Children's Book and Media Review

Droughts afflict California, spawning job loss, agricultural failures, wildfires, endangered species, and disease. Since 2012—the start of the region’s worst drought in 1,200 years—Californians have faced more pressure to control their water usage, including letting their green lawns lapse. However, the weather cannot be controlled, and in recent years, temperatures have risen, less rain has fallen, and less mountain snowpack has accumulated. In short, California’s water supply is not meeting the demand for water, and drought may become a way of life. From farming to local businesses, citizens have reduced usage, but political decisions and scientific discoveries must also contribute. …

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The Battle Of The Vegetables, Megan Hall Dec 2018

The Battle Of The Vegetables, Megan Hall

Children's Book and Media Review

In The Battle of the Vegetables, readers get a glimpse of what life is really like in a vegetable farm. This story follows a group of carrots and a group of leeks as they tackle problems in the garden. The leeks confront an intruder, while the carrots try to escape the garden before an intruder arrives. At the end of the story, the carrots and the leeks face a challenge greater than before, which leads to an all-out battle of the vegetables. At the end of story, the vegetables cannot find peace, and readers learn that in a vegetable garden, …

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The Art Of Feeling, Taylor Nelson Dec 2018

The Art Of Feeling, Taylor Nelson

Children's Book and Media Review

Since the car accident which killed her mom and left her with a permanent and painful leg injury, Samantha Herring has been existing in a state of numbness and depression. That is, until she meets Eliot, a reckless misanthrope with a rare disorder that makes him unable to feel pain. When Sam rescues Eliot from a fight, they strike up a strange and wonderful friendship. Both are outcasts in a school full of bullies, so they seek comfort and protection from each other. Over time, the two begin to realize that healing takes time and empathy, and that meaningful relationships, …

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