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Copy Cat, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

Copy Cat, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Bella likes to be just like Anna, but sometimes Anna doesn't like to be copied. When there is only one crown and two princesses, Anna storms away with the crown. Bella is left to decide what she would like to do now. She starts to jump rope and learns to be good at it. Soon she makes a new friend, Chloe, who wants to copy Bella at jumping rope. Bella teaches her how and they have fun. Soon Anna returns and wants to jump rope too. They all have fun together—and then they see Dot!

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Cool Recipes For Your Health: Cool Wheat-Free Recipes, Leah Christopher Dec 2018

Cool Recipes For Your Health: Cool Wheat-Free Recipes, Leah Christopher

Children's Book and Media Review

Blueberry pancakes, cheesy lasagna, chicken fingers, chocolate cupcakes, and pineapple muffins—make these foods and more without gluten! Since some children do not eat gluten, this book offers delicious alternatives. It also introduces children to the vocabulary and basic skills of cooking. Check out the table of contents or the index to select a tasty recipe, scan the pages on ingredients and kitchen tools to prepare to cook, and watch out for definitions of cooking terms and photos that match important steps in each recipe. Learn tips about a gluten-free diet and look up the web links listed for more details. …

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Charisma, Melissa Heaton Dec 2018

Charisma, Melissa Heaton

Children's Book and Media Review

Aislyn's painfully shy tendencies seem to make everything worse in her complicated life. Aislyn’s little brother suffers from Cystic Fibrosis, and her single mother works multiple jobs just to keep the family afloat. At a community event at Nova Genetics, Aisyln decides to be secretly injected with an experimental gene therapy drug called Charisma that changes her DNA to improve her weak personality. Almost suddenly, Aislyn’s shyness disappears and she is charming. She is able to make friends easily and voice her opinions without cowering in a corner. Unfortunately, Aislyn and others start experiencing serious side effects. The drug backfires …

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Build Your Own Robots, Beverly Jones Dec 2018

Build Your Own Robots, Beverly Jones

Children's Book and Media Review

Robots are involved in so many aspects of everyday life. Build Your Own Robots is an excellent book for young engineers to use and be inspired by. There are eight robot projects included in this book. A robodog and a robocrawly bug are just a couple of examples of the innovative designs included in this creative read. Young readers will spark an interest in engineering while being entertained at the same time as they explore this unique book.

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Build Your Own Boats, Beverly Jones Dec 2018

Build Your Own Boats, Beverly Jones

Children's Book and Media Review

Excitement abounds in this crafty and creative book. Readers will receive hands-on instructions to build several different kinds of boats including a catamaran, a swamp boat, and even a water bug. This book stimulates the mind and helps young readers excel as they use determination to create something new and interesting. There are seven projects in this book and many of them can be created with items that are found around the house. The author is sure to include added information about each boat so that readers will know more about the design and the science behind how it works.

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Bruno, Samantha Bullock Dec 2018

Bruno, Samantha Bullock

Children's Book and Media Review

Much like anyone, Bruno the cat has peculiar days, rainy days, stupid days, and days bordering on perfection, among others. Accompanied by a faithful cast of both old and new friends, Bruno makes the best of life’s ups and downs. He strives for fun and adventure throughout the six linked stories in the book, each detailing a different sort of day in Bruno’s life. Bruno makes new friends, takes care of old friends, and survives bad days. The final drama of the book occurs when Bruno loses his signature blue hat. Happily for Bruno, the hat is shortly and unexpectedly …

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Bridge To The Wild, Phyllis Rosen Dec 2018

Bridge To The Wild, Phyllis Rosen

Children's Book and Media Review

The author gets to visit the zoo and share facts she learns about the different animals she encounters. She accompanies Rebecca Snyder, Curator of Mammals at Zoo Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia, where she is allowed to go behind the scenes to learn about various animals and also to find out how the zoo keepers take care of the needs of these animals. She has chapters that include learning about pandas, flamingos, meerkats, orangutans, gorillas, snakes, elephants, birds, Komodo dragons, etc. The reader also gets a glimpse of the routine of the zoo vets. The end of the book discusses endangered …

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Brain Benders: Seeing Is Believing, Sam Whitaker Dec 2018

Brain Benders: Seeing Is Believing, Sam Whitaker

Children's Book and Media Review

Brain Benders: Seeing is Believing takes readers on a journey of optical illusions and mind tricks that will show readers just how their minds or their eyes can deceive them. On each page is one to four illusions or tricks with a full explanation of why or how the tricks and illusions work. On some pages, there are even explanations about how sometimes people see different things when they look at a certain object.

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Been There, Done That, Amanda Bishop Dec 2018

Been There, Done That, Amanda Bishop

Children's Book and Media Review

Been There, Done That focuses on how real-life experiences influence fiction. Whether the event is recounted in exact detail or there is just a hint of reality in the piece of fiction, inspiration is everywhere. Written by young adult and children’s book authors, each author reflects on a memory and tells what really happened, then follows this real account with a piece of fiction that was inspired by their remembrance. There is a mix of short stories and verse as well as mini-graphic novels and illustrated pieces. Readers will be inspired to reflect and write their own stories based on …

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Been Here All Along, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Been Here All Along, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Gideon is just trying to focus on doing well in high school, staying involved, and getting into a good college. Falling in love with his best friend/next-door-neighbor was not going to help his focus. Kyle is already dating the beautiful head cheerleader Ruby, and Gideon has never thought about if he's gay or not before. He tries to shut down his feelings before something catastrophic happens. Kyle is doing relatively well in life—he's got a great girlfriend and an awesome best friend. But when Ruby and Gideon both start acting weird around him, Kyle knows something is up, but he …

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Because I Was A Girl: True Stories For Girls Of All Ages, Emilee Bell Dec 2018

Because I Was A Girl: True Stories For Girls Of All Ages, Emilee Bell

Children's Book and Media Review

This is the anthology of the modern age of women. Girls of all ages, from all walks of life, unfold the events of their lives to the eyes of the public. Raw, honest, positive, and hopeful stories line the pages of de la Cruz’s book. Read of the courage of trailblazing politicians, financial executives, and fiery entrepreneurs. Witness the bloom of young girls into fierce advocates, truth-speaking writers, and empathetic social innovators. Ache with the bruised, abused, and suppressed; rejoice as they rise above the cards they’re dealt to mentor and raise the ones behind them.

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Baby Monkey, Private Eye, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

Baby Monkey, Private Eye, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

What do you do when your pizza goes missing or your jewels are stolen? Visit Baby Monkey of course! His private eye business is booming as he apprehends spaceship and nose thieves, locking the robbers away and returning the stolen goods to the owner. His method is to look for clues, take notes, eat a snack, then put on his pants and go off to solve the case. He’s a busy monkey until a mother comes in looking for her baby, and he decides it’s time to go home with his mom.

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Artificial Intelligence: Building Smarter Machines, Shelby Bunker Dec 2018

Artificial Intelligence: Building Smarter Machines, Shelby Bunker

Children's Book and Media Review

Artificial Intelligence: Building Smarter Machines by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson is the perfect introduction for those wanting to learn more about artificial intelligence. Not only does this book walk the reader through a history of its use in past, present, and future, but it discusses the wide use of artificial intelligence. The book examines artificial intelligence in war, medicine, entertainment, and convenient living.

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A 52-Hertz Whale, Elizabeth Farley Dec 2018

A 52-Hertz Whale, Elizabeth Farley

Children's Book and Media Review

James, a whale-obsessed fourteen-year-old, has his own whale whom he has “adopted” and tracks online. In a series of events in which his whale is lost and ultimately beached, James reaches out to an old acquaintance through email. A 52-Hertz Whale is a series of strings of emails between a handful of characters. In this transcript of emails, James finds solace from his lack of friends at school and is able to help those he is in correspondence with to improve upon their own problems.

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No Way Out: Shadow House #3, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

No Way Out: Shadow House #3, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Dash, Azumi, and Poppy are trapped on the grounds of Larkspur House when they come to a carnival that traps them in a mirror maze with the shadow creature pursuing them in the guise of Poppy's cousin Connie. They find their way out and discover an old garage where five previous children hid and left behind a walkman with a tape that gives the trio more clues. The three children conclude that they must go back into the house to destroy the contract that Poppy's uncle made with the shadow creature. They find their way to the artist's studio and …

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City Mouse, Country Mouse, Kylee Hackney Dec 2018

City Mouse, Country Mouse, Kylee Hackney

Children's Book and Media Review

Tansy the country mouse and William the city mouse meet by surprise one summer day. The two friends have an instant connection when they discover their similar dreams and passions. However, their opposite lifestyles become a barrier when Tansy wants to stay in the country and William wants to stay in the city. When the two can no longer stand to be separate, they find a place where they can both be happy together as best friends.

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Albert's Tree, Kylee Hackney Dec 2018

Albert's Tree, Kylee Hackney

Children's Book and Media Review

After a long hibernation, Albert can’t wait to get back to his favorite hang out spot. When he makes it to his special tree, he is startled when the tree suddenly begins wailing in tears! Time continues and Albert and his friends try everything to cheer the tree up. After Albert yells at the tree in absolute frustration, he finally decides to try a softer approach by climbing up to his branch and hugging the tree. To Albert’s astonishment he hears a small voice say, “I’m scared of the big hairy monster.” When he finds out the voice is from …

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If Sharks Disappeared, Mandy Mathews Dec 2018

If Sharks Disappeared, Mandy Mathews

Children's Book and Media Review

Many people think sharks are scary, but they are a necessary part of a healthy ocean. Losing an apex predator (like sharks) could have a terrible effect on our planet, which is important to know because many shark species are endangered. It would cause a chain reaction eventually leading to an unbalanced, even unlivable ocean. This chain reaction would continue onto land, affecting all the creatures of the world. Luckily, today sharks still exist. If we remember how we are all connected, maybe we’ll see that what once seemed scary, isn’t so scary after all.

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Be Brave, Little Penguin, Mandy Mathews Dec 2018

Be Brave, Little Penguin, Mandy Mathews

Children's Book and Media Review

Pip-Pip is the smallest of all the penguins, and he plays alone because he is too afraid of the water to swim with his friends. What if it’s freezing cold, or full of monsters? What if he can’t swim? Pip-Pip’s mommy tries to teach him to think of his fears differently, after all, the water might also be light and warm and full of treats. Finally, Pip-Pip decides to be brave, and even though he’s scared, he jumps! It turns out that his mommy was right, and Pip-Pip loves the water after all.

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Hurricane Child, Melissa Secor Dec 2018

Hurricane Child, Melissa Secor

Children's Book and Media Review

Twelve-year-old Caroline was born on a small island in the Caribbean in the middle of a hurricane, which is said to be unlucky. This has been too true for Caroline. She has always been bullied and abused at school, and one day, her mom leaves the house and doesn’t come back. Caroline is left alone, without the only person who ever loved her. One day, a girl named Kalinda shows up at school. Kalinda recently moved from Barbados and has a glow about her. Kalinda and Caroline become instant friends, and Caroline finds herself finally connecting someone. When Caroline finds …

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Guts & Glory: The Vikings, Jared Leighton Dec 2018

Guts & Glory: The Vikings, Jared Leighton

Children's Book and Media Review

Guts & Glory: The Vikings is Thompson’s second book in his series of fun and compelling history books. Thompson takes you through the rich history of the Vikings, from their discovery of North America five centuries before Columbus to the founding of Russia. The book starts by painting a picture of a typical Viking pillage off the coast of England, and the reader is exposed right away to the pure brutality of these ancient Scandinavians—a great way to set the stage for the rest of the book. Be prepared to learn about their conquered settlements, founding of countries, weapons and …

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Sports Illustrated Kids: Women Athletes Who Rule!, Beverly Jones Dec 2018

Sports Illustrated Kids: Women Athletes Who Rule!, Beverly Jones

Children's Book and Media Review

More than 150 color photos showcase some of the most determined and successful women athletes in the world. Swimmers, tennis players, gymnasts, and many more athletes have been an inspiration to many as they fought to be the best and never stepped down from a challenge. Readers will learn interesting tidbits about their favorite athletes such as facts about their lives, world records they hold, and "wow factors" that not just anyone can achieve. There are 101 sports stars featured in this book. Some are well-known and some are more obscure, but they all have one thing in common. They …

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Wesley James Ruined My Life, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Wesley James Ruined My Life, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Quinn's summer is not going so well—her grandmother is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, her dad's gambling addiction is only getting worse, and the boy who ruined her life, Wesley James, is back in town. When Wesley is hired on at the same restaurant as her and joins the school band, it becomes more and more difficult for Quinn to exact the revenge she seeks as she sees Wesley's true personality and begins to fall for him. Between trying to get Wesley fired and stifle her feelings for him, she also struggles with longing to go on the school's London trip and …

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On The Free, Melissa Heaton Dec 2018

On The Free, Melissa Heaton

Children's Book and Media Review

Santi, Victor, and Amelia—the only survivors left of the Bear Canyon Wilderness Therapy Program—are stranded in the Colorado wilderness after a destructive mudslide destroys their camp in the middle of the night and sweeps away the other members of their group. Santi and Amelia want to go back down the mountain, but Victor has other motives and wants to continue moving forward. As they try to find help, they endure injuries, harsh weather, a lack of supplies, vicious wildlife, and their troubled pasts. After the climax of fighting off a mountain lion, the fate of Santi, Victor, and Amelia are …

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Ghost Boys, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

Ghost Boys, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Jerome, a twelve-year-old black child, is bullied at school, loved at home, and is a good kid. He makes his very first friend and is shot in the back by a white policeman on the very same day. Jerome lives in the slums and his family is close-knit and struggling to scrape up a living. The story alternates between his last day alive and his new experiences and feelings now that he is dead. His life and the events leading to the shooting are revealed a piece at a time. He witnesses the cop's trial and in court realizes that …

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The Breaking News, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

The Breaking News, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

After the bad news, fear and melancholy seem to have settled over the family and neighborhood. A girl’s teacher invites her students to look for the helpers in the world amidst the bad. She decides that she wants to help and starts doing kind things to try to lighten the mood. She and her brother put on a funny show, make up stories about invisible force fields to protect them, and are on the BEST behavior all the time, but none of it seems to help in a big way. So she decides that she’ll stick with helping in small …

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Paper Chains, Amanda Bishop Dec 2018

Paper Chains, Amanda Bishop

Children's Book and Media Review

Katie is new to Boston and quickly makes friends with spunky Ana. Both girls are trying to understand their place in the world and whether or not they can trust each other with their deepest secrets. Katie was adopted and has had multiple surgeries as well as a heart transplant. This has left her vulnerable, and her overprotective mother is always worried about her. Ana is trying to keep her family together after her father has abandoned the family and her strict Russian grandmother has moved in. As their friendship goes through challenges, they must learn how to trust one …

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Things We Know By Heart, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Things We Know By Heart, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Quinn's boyfriend Trent died at the end of their junior year, and her world has never been the same since. For healing, she starts reaching out to the people who received Trent's organs after he died. The one person she hasn't ever gotten a reply from is the boy who got Trent's heart. She tells herself she won't go see him, but curiosity and the need for closure get the better of her. Colton seems unwilling to talk about his past but is very interested in Quinn, and she finds herself falling for him too. But falling in love again …

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Tractor Mac Colors On The Farm, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

Tractor Mac Colors On The Farm, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

A short board book for toddlers to learn the primary colors by seeing things on a farm that are red, green, yellow, orange, pink, and brown. There are also objects pictured in the various colors that can help really early readers to learn the object names and not just their color. Join Farmer Mac for a colorful visit to the farm with a little one in tow.

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The Joy Of Cookies: Cookie Monster's Guide To Life, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

The Joy Of Cookies: Cookie Monster's Guide To Life, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Cookie Monster has deeply underestimated wisdom. Who knew that cookies are the answer to all of the problems of life and the universe? Cookie Monster, that's who! This book is not a story with a plot. Instead, it is a philosophical treatise on the therapeutic nature of the cookie. Any cookie, all cookies, and preferably large quantities of cookies that should be instantaneously consumed. Tidbits of wisdom are interspersed with recipes for various cookie types.

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