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The Blood Between Us, Lisa Packard Dec 2018

The Blood Between Us, Lisa Packard

Children's Book and Media Review

Adriens' adoptive parents just died from a scientific freak accident and his sister, Grace, is consumed with her grief and doesn't even care that he's hurting too. He may be adopted, but they were still his parents. Adrien decides to move away to deal with grief in his own way and returns four years later because his god father is dying of cancer. Adrien is thrown into the thick of things with everyone at his old school hating him because he "abandoned" his sister. Not only does everyone hate him, but he's also getting mysterious texts about his sister trying …

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The Bat Can Bat, Sam Whitaker Dec 2018

The Bat Can Bat, Sam Whitaker

Children's Book and Media Review

When Bat hits a home run for a baseball team, the president of the United States decrees that all animals should be allowed to play sports with humans. After this announcement, animals are playing all sorts of sports. Then, when humans are asked what they think about this new announcement, the answers vary from, "It's a good idea!" to, "It's not such a good idea after all." In the end of the book, readers will find out that the humans elected an animal Seal as president, which is why the decree came out.

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Tenney, Amanda Durrant Dec 2018

Tenney, Amanda Durrant

Children's Book and Media Review

Sixth grader Tenney Grant loves playing her guitar and writing her own lyrics. She volunteers to be on the Jamboree committee working with senior citizens and decides to sign up to be a performer. A music scout invites Tenney to perform at a music showcase where record labels look for up-and-coming talent. After much debate, Tenney's parents allow her to perform her original piece at the showcase, which she struggles through and ends up disappointed that she doesn't get signed to a record deal. Her senior citizen partner for the Jamboree turns out to be a country music legend and …

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Sunny Side Up, Kylee Hackney Dec 2018

Sunny Side Up, Kylee Hackney

Children's Book and Media Review

Ten year-old, Sunny Lewin’s plans change when her family cancels their beach house summer vacation and sends her to spend the entire summer with her grandpa in Florida. With hopes of spending her summer days in Disney World, she is sorely mistaken when she ends up passing time with the elderly people of Pine Palms Retirement Community. Luckily, she meets Buzz, another kid her age! The two spend the summer reading comics, tracking down the run-away cats, and collecting stray golf balls. While Sunny’s summer is turning out to be better than she anticipated, she can’t help but be reminded …

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Suitors And Sabotage, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Suitors And Sabotage, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Imogene Chively has just returned from her Season in the town and anticipates a summer filled with romantic glances, walks to castle ruins, and sketching with the kind, book-loving Ernest Steeple. What she doesn't anticipate is doing all of those things with Ernest's younger brother, Ben. As an aspiring architect, Ben needs to learn to draw better than his current ability, and Imogene is soon given to be his tutor. As they spend more time together, Imogene and Ben realize that the feelings they share are deeper than Imogene's feelings for Ernest. To make matters more complicated, a series of …

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Suffer Love, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Suffer Love, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Sam Bennett is trying to get over his parents' divorce when he moves to a small town outside Nashville. Hadley St. Clair has been dealing with the aftermath of her father's infidelity to her mother for a while, but her familiar, loving home is now a quiet place full of strangers. Sam and Hadley were not supposed to meet, and they definitely weren't supposed to fall in love, especially after Sam realizes that his mother had an affair with her father. Sam and Hadley find comfort in each other and a mutual understanding they don't share with anyone else. However, …

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Stickmen's Guide To Trains And Automobiles, Beverly Jones Dec 2018

Stickmen's Guide To Trains And Automobiles, Beverly Jones

Children's Book and Media Review

The days of traveling solely by foot or by horseback are long gone and new ways of travel are being improved upon every single day. This charmingly illustrated book highlights the history and functionality of several different types of transportation including cars, motorcycles, and trains. This is not just an ordinary book on transportation. Look closely at each page and find the silly stickman as he jumps, climbs, and sneaks his way around these totally technological types of transportation!

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Sink Or Swim: A Novel Of World War Ii, Tessa Mcmillan Dec 2018

Sink Or Swim: A Novel Of World War Ii, Tessa Mcmillan

Children's Book and Media Review

Twelve-year-old Colton Graham admires his older brother, Danny. Danny enlisted in the Navy soon after Pearl Harbor. But before Danny leaves for boot camp, he is seriously injured in a boating accident. Colton takes Danny’s enlistment papers and identity. Soon Colton is experiencing the rigors of boot camp. He is assigned on a patrol craft spotting any U-boats stalking cargo ships in the Atlantic. During one mission, his patrol craft is torpedoed, killing half the crew and injuring Colton’s leg. With only one lifeboat, he and his comrades aimlessly drift along for days until help finally arrives. Back on land, …

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Series Title: Cilla Lee-Jenkins This Book Is A Classic, Katie Irion Dec 2018

Series Title: Cilla Lee-Jenkins This Book Is A Classic, Katie Irion

Children's Book and Media Review

Miss Cilla Lee-Jenkins is certain that the best traditions always involve cake. She discovers that there are many traditions to celebrate but not all of them are marked by special days. Cilla narrates the book and spends her journal pages describing her class frog, best friends, baby sister, and Auntie Eva’s upcoming wedding. Throughout the book, Cilla learns some life lessons about friendship, traditions, culture, and family. She learns that while cake is certainly an important part of any tradition, the most important part is spending time with family and making new friends.

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Second Star, Rachel Aedo Dec 2018

Second Star, Rachel Aedo

Children's Book and Media Review

Michael and John are missing, and Wendy is going to find them. The classic story of Peter Pan has been reset to take place next to the ocean, where Pete flies with Belle and the Lost Boys on surfboards, and Jas lives by selling a drug called fairy dust to hopeless addicts. Wendy is frantically denying that her brothers are dead, instead she is convinced that they have run away to search for the perfect wave. She falls in with Pete, and falls in love with him, but leaves after finding that her brothers have come and gone from Pete’s …

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Science Comics: Sharks: Nature's Perfect Hunter, Olivia Hales Dec 2018

Science Comics: Sharks: Nature's Perfect Hunter, Olivia Hales

Children's Book and Media Review

Science Comics: Sharks: Nature’s Perfect Hunter is a brief yet in depth exploration of sharks with topics ranging from shark biology to behavior, evolution to biodiversity, and even folklore. The facts are woven into a story featuring a marine biologist. Sharks are helpfully compared and contrasted to each other, animals, and humans, emphasizing their stunning diversity and unique adaptations. Scientific explanations of how a shark’s body works are illustrated in great detail.

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Scholastic Discover More: Titanic, Beverly Jones Dec 2018

Scholastic Discover More: Titanic, Beverly Jones

Children's Book and Media Review

The Titanic tragedy is one that will never be forgotten. People are still fascinated and saddened by the story of the unsinkable ship that turned out to be sinkable after all. This installment in the Scholastic Discover More series does an excellent job of providing a timeline of the events leading up to the sinking of the famous ship. It also provides stories from some of the ship's survivors. This book contains everything you could ever want to know about the legendary Titanic.

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Ruined #1: Ruined, Lisi Merkley Dec 2018

Ruined #1: Ruined, Lisi Merkley

Children's Book and Media Review

Emelina Flores’s lost everything when a neighboring kingdom destroyed her family’s palace, killed her parents, and kidnapped her sister, Olivia. In the aftermath of the attack her own people refuse to let her rule, because unlike the rest of Ruina she doesn’t have any powers. She decides to prove that she can help her people by rescuing her sister. In order to do so, she impersonates a princess from an enemy kingdom and marries the prince from another. Her plan is going perfectly until she falls in love with Prince Cas and decides not to kill him. Eventually the royal …

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Retribution Rails, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Retribution Rails, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Reece Murphy is known as the infamous Rose Kid, an outlaw so vicious that he murdered an entire family when he was fifteen and joined up with the Rose Riders—or at least that's what everyone in Arizona Territory thinks. In reality, Reece knows who killed Luther Rose's (leader of the Rose Riders) brother a decade earlier, and Rose wants revenge. He forced Reece to join his murdering, plundering band of outlaws and so Reece is stuck in his lawless lifestyle. During a botched train robbery he meets Charlotte Vaughn, an aspiring news reporter with family drama of her own that …

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Relative Strangers, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Relative Strangers, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

High school senior Jules lives with her ex-addict mother and wishes for the perfect, close-knit families she sees her friends having. She discovers that she lived in foster care for a while when she was a baby. Feeling betrayed by her mother and longing to know more about her "other" family, she reaches out to Luke Margolis, her foster brother. As Jules gets closer with the Margolises, she finds herself struggling with romantic feelings for Luke. She can't decide if she wants him to be her brother or her boyfriend, and her confusing feelings cause problems. Jules also comes to …

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Princess Pulverizer: Grilled Cheese And Dragons, Rachel Wadham Dec 2018

Princess Pulverizer: Grilled Cheese And Dragons, Rachel Wadham

Children's Book and Media Review

Princess Serena wants nothing more than to attend Knight School, but she’s stuck learning how to dance and drink tea at the Royal School of Ladylike Manners. When her latest escapades gets her expelled, her father finally agrees to consider knight training if she will complete a quest of kindness. Dubbing herself Princess Pulverizer, a name she sees capturing her personality, she sets out to complete her quest. Her first tries to help don’t go too well but when she hears of a Queen's stolen jewels she knows she’s found just the right task. Entering the Ogre’s lair, she quickly …

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Posted, Rachel Aedo Dec 2018

Posted, Rachel Aedo

Children's Book and Media Review

A group of middle-school misfits have formed their own “tribe,” each member with his own name and role in their friendship. However, the arrival of Rose interrupts their harmonious peace, driving the four boys apart. Rose’s arrival also coincides with the banning of cell phones from school and the subsequent uproar from the students. Narrated by Frost, a boy nicknamed for his knack for poetry, the school erupts into the Sticky-Note War. Hallways, bathrooms, and lockers are covered with the tiny pieces of paper, each bearing a hugely hurtful message for someone. The war comes to a head when Frost’s …

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Peak #3: Ascent, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Peak #3: Ascent, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

In the third book of the Peak series, Peak Marcello has been invited to Burma to relax and hang out with Alessia, daughter of the French ambassador and a friend from a previous climb. Alessia has more than just hanging out in mind, however, she wants to summit Hkakabo Razi, which could be the tallest summit in Southeast Asia. Peak, Alessia, her bodyguard Ethan, and a new friend, Dr. Freestone, have to survive the jungle of Burma before they can even make it to the base of the mountain. Their journey to the base of the mountain is rife with …

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One Day A Dot, Kylee Hackney Dec 2018

One Day A Dot, Kylee Hackney

Children's Book and Media Review

One Day a Dot tells the story of the universe, and how it came to it. Beginning with a tiny dot that burst to form light and color and eventually resulting in the creation of species. The evolution of species then leads to the rise of mankind and technological advancement. It scientifically answers the questions of how the Earth and its inhabitants came to be. In the end, the most difficult question remains unanswered… where did that first tiny dot come from?

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Omaha Beach On D-Day: June 6, 1944 With One Of The World's Iconic Photographers, Nicole Clark Dec 2018

Omaha Beach On D-Day: June 6, 1944 With One Of The World's Iconic Photographers, Nicole Clark

Children's Book and Media Review

Equal parts graphic novel, biography, and photo book, Omaha Beach on D-Day tells the story of photographer Robert Capa’s experiences on D-Day. Capa, described by London’s Picture Post as “the greatest war photographer in the world,” was assigned to travel with a unit landing in France on the infamous morning of June 6, 1944. Determined to capture the horror and reality of the beach landing on film, Capa faced heavy gunfire, harsh weather conditions, and mass confusion. The nine remaining photographs from Capa’s experience became some of the most defining photographs of World War II.

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Ocdaniel, Leah Christopher Dec 2018

Ocdaniel, Leah Christopher

Children's Book and Media Review

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is commonly misunderstood, and Daniel doesn’t even know he has it. Although Daniel recognizes his strange tendencies—the “Zaps” that force him to repeat actions like tapping and stepping on cracks, the intensive “Routine” every night—he feels powerless to overcome them. Unexpectedly, a fellow student named Sara, with oddities of her own, enlists Daniel’s help to track down her missing father. When they break into a suspect’s home to search for clues, one of Daniel’s Zaps almost gets them caught. But Daniel and Sara persist in their investigation and discover that Sara’s dad had overdosed on medication, and Sara …

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Neck & Neck, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

Neck & Neck, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

Life at the zoo is wonderful for Leopold the giraffe! But that all changes one day when a giraffe balloon shows up. He’s flexible, cheerful, and doesn’t have to be fed, the kid with the balloon brags. Leopold goes into a jealous rage and pops the balloon, hoping to get the kid’s undivided attention. But he only comes back with MORE giraffe balloons! When the kid’s balloons start flying away, Leopold has to make a decision—to save or not to save. They get stuck in his favorite tree and Leopold decides to return them to the owner. When he does, …

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My Name Is Victoria, Taylor Nelson Dec 2018

My Name Is Victoria, Taylor Nelson

Children's Book and Media Review

Ten-year-old Victoria (Miss V.) Conroy is sent to Kensington Palace to be a companion to the young Princess Victoria. Sir John Conroy, Miss V's father and comptroller of the royal household, has devised the Kensington System, a strict order of life designed to keep the princess isolated and under the control of the adults around her. At first, Miss V trusts that the system is there for the protection of the princess, but as the two Victorias grow older and closer together, Miss V starts to doubt her father. Princess Victoria is resentful of her restricted life and longs for …

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Muhammad Ali: A Champion Is Born, Jamie Greenwood Dec 2018

Muhammad Ali: A Champion Is Born, Jamie Greenwood

Children's Book and Media Review

Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Clay. His historical career as a boxer began when his brand new bicycle was stolen when he was twelve. He made a report about the stolen bike to Officer Joe Martin, who he found inside a boxing gym. Officer Martin inspired Cassius to be a boxer. Others laughed at his great ambition but Cassius worked hard, training every day after school with Officer Martin. When he was older Cassius began working with a second trainer as well, Fred Stoner, who help him improve even more. He became the champion he had dreamed of being once …

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Muddy: The Story Of Blues Legend Muddy Waters, Rachel Wadham Dec 2018

Muddy: The Story Of Blues Legend Muddy Waters, Rachel Wadham

Children's Book and Media Review

Muddy Waters was a tenacious young man who really didn’t like to take no for an answer. Growing up, he made instruments out of anything and listened to the legends around him like Son House play. Working in the fields by day and playing in music joints at night soon became unsatisfactory for Muddy, who packed up and moved to the big city of Chicago where music was pushing boundaries. Muddy played in lots of clubs and even tried to make a few records, but it was not until he captured his own unique signature sound that he was able …

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Mr. Puffball: Stunt Cat To The Stars, Mavanee Farnsworth Dec 2018

Mr. Puffball: Stunt Cat To The Stars, Mavanee Farnsworth

Children's Book and Media Review

When Mr. Puffball leaves home for Hollywood, he realizes that showbiz isn’t exactly a walk in the park. Mr. Puffball becomes El Gato’s stunt cat in his newest film. He looks up to El Gato, but soon realizes that El Gato isn't perfect. El Gato is blunt, rude, and bossy. However, while working on the movie, the two become good friends, and Mr. Puffball learns to help El Gato over his insecurities. Together they are a team, and in the end, El Gato tells Mr. Puffball that they are going to film a buddy movie together next.

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Mr. Puffball: Stunt Cat Across America, Mavanee Farnsworth Dec 2018

Mr. Puffball: Stunt Cat Across America, Mavanee Farnsworth

Children's Book and Media Review

The suits, the top cats of Purramount Studios, need to be persuaded. El Gato and Mr. Puffball could have their buddy movie stolen right out from under them. The suits loved the buddy film, but they aren’t convinced that Mr. Puffball and El Gato should be the actors in the movie. Benedict Cumbercat is about to snatch their show and the cats need to act fast. To win over the Purramount Studios executives, Mr. Puffball, El Gato, and their friends pile into a van to travel across the country to shoot their demo reel. They’re on a deadline and have …

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Meet Cute, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Meet Cute, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

This collection contains fourteen short stories, all describing the moment (or moments) that lead to a young couple falling in love. Some are realistic: hiding together during a raid from the police at a party, seeing each other on the subway multiple times in a month, or meeting by chance in the airport security line. Others are more fantastical: tattoos that help young people find their soulmate, an app that matches you with your perfect complementary lover, and a governmental department dedicated entirely to investigating why a relationship failed. Each story features a unique, well-developed heroine who finds maybe not …

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Map My Neighborhood, Kylee Hackney Dec 2018

Map My Neighborhood, Kylee Hackney

Children's Book and Media Review

Grandma is coming for a visit, and you want to make her a map of the neighborhood to show her what is nearby! With primary terminology and simple examples on every page, you can learn how to plan, draw, and create a map of your own neighborhood! Symbols found on the map key, the compass rose with cardinal directions, and the easy-to understand glossary are all included in this informative picture book.

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Machu Picchu, Acacia Haws Dec 2018

Machu Picchu, Acacia Haws

Children's Book and Media Review

Machu Picchu's history is a fascinating puzzle for readers of all ages. There are many unanswered questions about its inhabitants and its geography. This book does a good job of introducing the mystery of Machu Picchu as well as a few tidbits of history. There are pictures that fill entire pages about every other page. Each is detailed and relevant to the information offered opposite it.

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