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When The Beat Was Born: Dj Kool Herc And The Creation Of Hip Hop, Jamie Greenwood Dec 2018

When The Beat Was Born: Dj Kool Herc And The Creation Of Hip Hop, Jamie Greenwood

Children's Book and Media Review

Clive was born in Jamaica where he fell in love with music. At age thirteen, Clive moved to the Bronx in New York City. There he started playing basketball at the neighborhood playground, where he was nicknamed “Hercules” for his great height. This was shortened to “Herc,” and Clive added “Kool” for the new nickname of “Kool Herc.” One day Clive’s father bought a giant sound system. Clive tinkered around to make the sound system even better and then hosted a huge dance party as the new “DJ Kool Herc.” DJ Kool Herc used his own new techniques to make …

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We Were Never Here, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

We Were Never Here, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Lizzie Stoller collapses at summer camp unexpectedly, and her life is never the same after that. During her stay in the hospital, she meets Conner and his dog, Verlaine. Conner is sweet, cute, and funny, all the qualities that the boys who never like Lizzie back have. But somehow, Conner and Lizzie connect in a mutual understanding that isn't always clear to them. Lizzie is suffering from physical pain and anguish, while Conner is suffering from emotional and mental turmoil. As Lizzie starts to heal, Conner seems to get worse, and both are unsure about how to proceed. Lizzie eventually …

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Unicorn (And Horse), Rachel Wadham Dec 2018

Unicorn (And Horse), Rachel Wadham

Children's Book and Media Review

Unicorn is perfect. He has great teeth, lots of friends, and gets to eat pink cupcakes at every meal. Horse, on the other hand, is not quite so perfect. He is frumpy, has to eat hay, and he wishes he was unicorn. But when a nefarious duo decides to kidnap unicorn so they can make a lot of money, the only one who can save him is horse. With his speed and very large teeth, he is the perfect one to foil the plot and when he saves the day horse finds that he can be his own kind of …

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Unicorn (And Horse), Taylor Harris Dec 2018

Unicorn (And Horse), Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

Meet Horse and Unicorn. Unicorn makes rainbows, eats pink cupcakes, and makes everything cheery! Other animals love him. Horse, well… Horse does not. In fact, he envies Unicorn more than a little bit. When evil men kidnap Unicorn, Horse is the only one who can save him. He runs as fast as he can and with his help, Unicorn again walks free. Now, Horse and Unicorn are best friends who love to do things together. Even though they’re different, Horse has realized that you don’t have to be someone to get along with them, it’s enough to just be yourself.

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Tractor Mac: Worth The Wait, Ellen Mccarty Dec 2018

Tractor Mac: Worth The Wait, Ellen Mccarty

Children's Book and Media Review

Stony Meadow Farm has a great watermelon patch, and Farmer Bill is excited to grow a big melon to enter in the Fruit and Vegetable Show. But watermelons take a long time to grow. Pete, the pig, and his brother, Paul, want to make them to grow faster and try to help. By the time they finished, most of the patch was ruined. With the encouragement of Tractor Mac and the other animals, the pigs find a small melon plant and learn how to care for it and to be patient while it grows. Their melon turns into a real …

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Today I'M A Dancer, Beverly Jones Dec 2018

Today I'M A Dancer, Beverly Jones

Children's Book and Media Review

Readers put on their dancing shoes and join Ellie the dancer as she showcases her week in dance. Ellie doesn't just stick to one category of dance. She tries them all! From flamenco to tap to ballet and even hip hop, Ellie works hard to get ready for the big show on Sunday! Each type of dance is highlighted with colorful illustrations and key words pertaining to the various styles.

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This Is Just A Test, Amanda Bishop Dec 2018

This Is Just A Test, Amanda Bishop

Children's Book and Media Review

David Da-Wei Horowitz is preparing for his Bar Mitzvah while trying to keep the peace between his grandmothers, friends, and the threat of the Cold War. Growing up half-Jewish and half-Chinese is no easy task. David’s friendships are put to the test after the cool kid, Sam, invites him and his best friend, Hector, to join his trivia team. Sam and David’s friendship, and their building of a fallout shelter, challenge David and Hector’s friendship. David finds a way to bring his grandmothers and friends together, while gaining enough courage to talk to the girl of his dreams, before he …

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There's A Tiger In The Garden, Nicole Clark Dec 2018

There's A Tiger In The Garden, Nicole Clark

Children's Book and Media Review

Nora is bored at Grandma’s house. That is, until Grandma claims that her garden houses a tiger, giant dragonflies, and a grumpy polar bear. At first she is skeptical and thinks that Grandma is just playing a game of make-believe. Nora decides to venture into the garden and prove Grandma wrong. What she sees surprises her—especially when she comes face-to-face with a friendly tiger!

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There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat!, Staci Mccarty Dec 2018

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat!, Staci Mccarty

Children's Book and Media Review

What won’t this old lady swallow? We may never know why she has the appetite to swallow these crazy Halloween themed creatures, but it keeps the readers guessing as to what spooky creature may be on the next page…a bat, an owl, a cat? She continues to swallow different things until she swallows a wizard. This wizard casts a spell causing her to yell "trick or treat!" This yell produces a giant burp that releases all of the Halloween creatures.

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The Way To Game The Walk Of Shame, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

The Way To Game The Walk Of Shame, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Taylor Simmons' reputation is officially ruined. She was seen leaving a party with none other than Evan McKinley, resident playboy at their high school. When she wakes up in his bedroom the next morning, neither of them can remember what actually happened that night. Rumors abound, and Taylor has to come up with a plan, and fast, before her chances at valedictorian and a full-ride to Columbia are jeopardized. She coerces Evan into signing a contract stating that they will fake a relationship so that their leaving the party together makes sense and is not scandalous. Evan is at first …

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The Way Home Looks Now, Amanda Bishop Dec 2018

The Way Home Looks Now, Amanda Bishop

Children's Book and Media Review

Baseball was the thing that Peter could count on to bring his family together, but that was before the accident. Now Peter hopes that baseball will once again unite his family after his brother is killed in a car accident. Peter decides to try out for the baseball team, a sport he loved playing with his brother, and hopes it will bring her mom out of her depression. Peter is shocked when his usually strict Taiwanese father becomes the team coach, but it turns out his father had played back in Taiwan. As Peter and his dad bond, a shocking …

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The Unlikely Story Of A Pig In The City, Nicole Clark Dec 2018

The Unlikely Story Of A Pig In The City, Nicole Clark

Children's Book and Media Review

When Josie's older brother brings home a piglet, Josie falls in love immediately! Certain she can persuade her parents to let her keep the tiny pig as a pet, Josie promises she’ll find a home for Hamlet the pig by New Year’s Day. Taking care of her new pet makes Josie feel special in her large family and helps her handle challenges she faces in her home and on her gymnastics team. Josie begins to realize, however, that downtown Ohio is not an ideal place for a growing pig. She finds a way to give Hamlet the care he really …

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The Truth As Told By Mason Buttle, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

The Truth As Told By Mason Buttle, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade and has visible learning disabilities. When he finds his best friend, Benny, dead in their orchard, he can’t seem to satisfy the cops with the honest story of all he knows. The whole town, including the police, think that Mason was the one who tampered with the ladder that killed Benny. So when his new best friend, Calvin, goes missing, the cops are a little more than suspicious. Thankfully, Mason finds Calvin in a light shaft they had built in their clubhouse and they are able to save him. However, …

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The Stars At Oktober Bend, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

The Stars At Oktober Bend, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Alice is fifteen and is broken. When she was twelve, she was raped and attacked by two men and saved by her family members just in time. In a blind rage, her grandfather took his gun and killed them both. Ever since then, Alice has been unable to speak properly. Instead, she writes her words and leaves them in bus shelters, on noticeboards, on fences. One day, Manny James finds one of her poems and memorizes its lovely words. Manny is broken, too. He saw the murder and rape of his mother and sister and was forced into becoming a …

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The Sorcerers' Plague: Book One Of The Blood Of The Southlands, Ariel Woodbury Dec 2018

The Sorcerers' Plague: Book One Of The Blood Of The Southlands, Ariel Woodbury

Children's Book and Media Review

Lici's village has fallen ill with the plague, and she has to walk through the night to find a neighboring Qirsi village to heal them. The first village she finds is indeed Qirsi, but their religion doesn't allow them to use their magic to help her family. When Lici returns, everyone in the village has died. She is taken into a nearby Mettai village, where live humans who can use blood magic as her family had. Here she learns that the people who had refused to help her were Y'Qatt. She spends her whole life planning her revenge on the …

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The Secret Keepers, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

The Secret Keepers, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Reuben skips school most of the time and spends his days scouting around the neighborhood and climbing buildings just to see if he can. His mother works two jobs to keep them afloat, but Reuben loves the time that they spend together dreaming up houses with unusual ideas like slides to go from one floor to the next. While climbing, Reuben finds an antique watch that he thinks he might be able to sell to rescue his mother and himself from eviction, but he discovers that the watch grants the wearer fifteen minutes of blind invisibility. Determined to save his …

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The Road To Ever After, Nicole Clark Dec 2018

The Road To Ever After, Nicole Clark

Children's Book and Media Review

Davy has a fascination with art and often draws angels in the dirt around town to pass the time, all the while being careful to avoid the disapproving eye of the minister, who has threatened on more than one occasion to kick Davy out of town. After an encounter with some local town boys, Davy finds himself at the dilapidated and supposedly-haunted home of the town's witch. Mrs. Elizabeth Flint, who turns out to not be a witch at all, invites Davy in and asks for his help on a journey back to her childhood home where she plans to …

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The Nightmare Club: Help! My Brother’S A Zombie, Haley Cook Dec 2018

The Nightmare Club: Help! My Brother’S A Zombie, Haley Cook

Children's Book and Media Review

It’s the annual Halloween sleepover, which means it’s time to share the scariest story ever. Annie Graves hosts a yearly sleepover where her friends get together and try to scare each other. "Help! My Brother’s a Zombie" is the second story of the night, told by Jack. Jack’s brother Stephen was a great older brother, teaching him fun things like making slingshots and giving Indian burns. Then, as Stephen becomes a teenager, he begins to change, no longer the fun easy going older brother. He's mean, stays up late, and smells funny. Eventually he is shipped off to a boarding …

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The Memory Book, Melissa Heaton Dec 2018

The Memory Book, Melissa Heaton

Children's Book and Media Review

Sammie McCoy has a degenerative brain disorder that will eventually erase her memories and her health. To help her future self remember, Sammie keeps a candid journal. She records her first date with her long time crush, high school debate triumphs and failures, adventures with friends, complex relationships, and her ambitions of graduating from high school and going to college. Unfortunately, Sammie’s memories fade away too soon and all that is left is her memory book.

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The Love Interest, Rachel Aedo Dec 2018

The Love Interest, Rachel Aedo

Children's Book and Media Review

Caden has a new name, a new face, and a perfect body, all specifically constructed to woo one special girl, Juliet. The only problem is Dyl, who has also been created especially to win the love of Juliet. Dyl and Caden are Love Interests, special spies trained and selected to oppose one another in the hopes that Juliet will fall in love with one of them. The catch is, whoever isn’t chosen by Juliet will die. However, the plans of the Love Interest Corporation go awry when Caden realizes he would rather date Dyl than Juliet, and Juliet decides she …

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The Last Leaves Falling, Lisi Merkley Dec 2018

The Last Leaves Falling, Lisi Merkley

Children's Book and Media Review

Sora, a teenager in Japan, wants to be a professor when he grows up, but he knows that he never will. He’ll never grow up, that is. Sora has ALS, and he knows the disease will take over his life, destroy his body, and eventually kill him. When he becomes confined to a wheelchair and his school can’t accommodate him any longer, Sora loses all his friends and doesn’t see a purpose to his life. On a whim, he joins an online chat group and makes two fast friends. Even with these two new friends, Sora struggles with the idea …

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The Journey Of Little Charlie, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

The Journey Of Little Charlie, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

After a freak accident kills his Pa, Charlie Bobo and his mother are about to be driven off because they can’t pay their dues incurred by sharecropping. An evil slave catcher, Cap’n Buck, comes to collect the debts and because they can’t pay, he takes Little Charlie on an expedition to catch and return some slaves. Little Charlie does as he’s asked, though his heart gets heavy as the shame and guilt builds. As they are trying to bring a slave boy back from Canada, a mob gathers and the boy is able to get free. Cap’n Buck ends up …

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The Island Of Beyond, Elizabeth Farley Dec 2018

The Island Of Beyond, Elizabeth Farley

Children's Book and Media Review

The mysterious Island of Beyond, partially owned by Martin’s even more mysterious Aunt Lenore, is Martin's assigned haven for the summer. Martin is an eleven-year-old boy with interests different than that of what his parents deem a “normal boy” should have, and he is therefore sent away for the summer to be with Aunt Lenore. While on the island, Martin meets a couple of interestingly different children and sneaking adults who share some of his underlying homosexual tendencies. Between his growing outside his comfort zone and his growing understanding of his pre-pubescent nature, Martin explores the uncertainties of his ever-changing …

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The Ice Sea Pirates, Brooklynn Marshall Dec 2018

The Ice Sea Pirates, Brooklynn Marshall

Children's Book and Media Review

Among a string of imaginary islands in the Arctic, the tale is told of a Captain Whitehead, an ice sea pirate nefarious for abducting small children and forcing them to work in his diamond mine. Siri and Miki live with their elderly father on one of these islands, but never believed that they would fall prey to the clutches of Whitehead and his crew. One day while the sisters are gathering berries on a neighboring island, the pair are separated and Miki is kidnapped. In effort to prevent her father from risking his life, Siri goes after her sister to …

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The Hazel Wood, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

The Hazel Wood, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Hazel Wood is an estate that belongs to Alice's grandmother, a woman that she has read about but never met. Alice and her mother, Ella, move constantly in an effort to stay one step ahead of the "bad luck" that pursues them relentlessly from one place to the next. Unfortunately, fate has a way of catching up to you. Alice comes home from school one day to find that her mother, step father, and step sister are missing. Alice flees to a friends home, the home of wealthy Emery Finch. Emery is a fan of Alice's grandmother's book, "The Hinterland," …

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The Grave Keepers, Erica Sonzogni Dec 2018

The Grave Keepers, Erica Sonzogni

Children's Book and Media Review

Imagine life as we know it today- except that when you turn thirteen, you receive your own grave to care for and live in until the time of your death. The Windhams, who own a cemetery and are professional Grave Keepers for the town, deal with the loss of their daughter, a kidnapping, teenage school drama, and a ghost who haunts the graveyard. All of the storylines unite at the end, when one of the Windhams’ daughters falls off a cliff and multiple community members come to the rescue.

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The Cruel Prince, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

The Cruel Prince, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Madoc, the general of the Faerie King's army, strikes down his unfaithful wife and her mortal husband. He claims his daughter, Vivienne, and her twin mortal sisters, Jude and Taryn, and they are now raised in the Faerie King's court as Madoc's children. Jude and Taryn are now at an age where they must find a place in the faerie world as wives or as knights. Jude desire's to become a knight, Taryn a wife. In school and out they are cruelly mistreated by Prince Cardan and his friends. Jude is foiled by her father in her desire to become …

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The Code Busters Club: The Secret Of The Puzzle Box, Jazmin Gomez Dec 2018

The Code Busters Club: The Secret Of The Puzzle Box, Jazmin Gomez

Children's Book and Media Review

The Code Busters are at it again! In the sixth installment of The Code Busters Club, the gang goes on a school field trip to Angel Island. They are on the hunt for a hidden puzzle box, but make a shocking and dangerous discovery along the way. Cody, Quinn, Luke, Mika and M.E. use their wits to crack puzzles and codes, and solve the mystery of the island’s shifty security guard.

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The Chosen One, Taylor Nelson Dec 2018

The Chosen One, Taylor Nelson

Children's Book and Media Review

Thirteen-year-old Kyra lives in an isolated polygamist community. She loves her father, her three mothers, and her twenty brothers and sisters. Books are forbidden, but one day Kyra discovers the Ironton County Mobile Library, and with it the knowledge that there is a much bigger world than she previously knew. When the Prophet decrees that she has been chosen to become her sixty-year-old uncle's seventh wife, Kyra must make the choice to stay with the family she loves and live a horrific life full of fear or escape into the great unknown. With the help of the mobile librarian, Kyra …

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The Boy And The Whale, Kati Penovich Dec 2018

The Boy And The Whale, Kati Penovich

Children's Book and Media Review

One morning, a boy and his father find a whale trapped in their fishing net. While his father worries about saving the net, the boy worries about the whale. His father returns their boat to shore, angry and worried about making a living without their only fishing net. After weighing his desire to help the whale against his knowledge that his father will be angry if he goes back, the boy decides to try to save the whale. Miraculously, he saves the whale, who leaps out of the water over and over, joyful to be free again.

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