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Fish In A Tree, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

Fish In A Tree, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

Ally has lived her whole life thinking she is dumb. She can’t read or write, but nobody knows. And frankly, nobody seems to care. That is until Mr. Daniels. Mr. Daniels is different from any teacher she’s ever had. He genuinely cares about his students and makes a special effort to help those who are struggling, without ever making a scene about it. With his help, she is diagnosed with dyslexia and he starts helping her learn to read after school. The safe environment he creates in the classroom, as well as the support he offers, helps Ally realize that …

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Edgar Allan Poe's Pie: Math Puzzlers In Classic Poems, Nicole Clark Dec 2018

Edgar Allan Poe's Pie: Math Puzzlers In Classic Poems, Nicole Clark

Children's Book and Media Review

What do you get when you cross Walt Whitman with a spider whose web-spinning was disturbed by a wind which blew sixty percent of it away? Robert Frost with boxer shorts at ninety cents a pair? Shel Silverstein with a hippo-po-tah-tum eating you at four percent per bite? In Edgar Allan Poe’s Pie, children’s poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis cleverly integrates math problems into new adaptations of classic poetry using the original rhyme and meter.

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Eddie Red, Undercover: Mystery In Mayan Mexico, Phyllis Rosen Dec 2018

Eddie Red, Undercover: Mystery In Mayan Mexico, Phyllis Rosen

Children's Book and Media Review

Eddie Red goes on vacation to Mexico with his parents and his friend Jonah. While there, an antique Mayan mask is stolen from the hotel lobby, and the police think Eddie’s dad is the thief. Eddie and Jonah decide they have to solve the crime to save Eddie’s dad. They encounter a street gang, the police chief’s daughter, and other characters in their quest for the truth. They also get themselves into lots of trouble, including a broken arm for Eddie and a brief hospital stay for Jonah. Eventually Eddie’s powers of observation help them discover who the thief really …

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Don't Put Yourself Down In Circus Town: A Story About Self-Confidence, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

Don't Put Yourself Down In Circus Town: A Story About Self-Confidence, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

Everyone in Circus Town is busy preparing for the big show. Many of the performers are having lots of missteps and falls, and they start to get down on themselves. Ringmaster Rick sees the falling self-confidence and calls a meeting where he encourages the performers to not let their mistakes define them as a failure. He teaches them to think positive thoughts and be confident in their abilities. With persistence and self-confidence, they are able to keep working and put on a fantastic show!

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Deadliest! 20 Dangerous Animals, Makayla Anderson Dec 2018

Deadliest! 20 Dangerous Animals, Makayla Anderson

Children's Book and Media Review

Dangerous animals are everywhere. This book compiles a list of the twenty most dangerous and deadly animals across the world. From venomous animals that live in the ocean to ravenous mammals on land, the most dangerous animals are all around us. Page by page, the reader will learn facts about each animal, including their location on the globe and their size compared to a human.

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Dare To Disappoint: Growing Up In Turkey, Katherine Martin Dec 2018

Dare To Disappoint: Growing Up In Turkey, Katherine Martin

Children's Book and Media Review

All six-year-old Özge wants is to go to school like her big sister Pelin. She even sneaks into the school instead of going to the store for milk. As she reaches her teen years, school becomes Özge’s entire life. Although once a dream of hers, it becomes a nightmare as she is encouraged study as hard as possible, get into the best high school and then college in Turkey, and eventually become an engineer. Özge struggles between pleasing her father or choosing to follow her new dreams of being an actress and swimming in the ocean. For a time, she …

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Daddy Depot, Mavanee Farnsworth Dec 2018

Daddy Depot, Mavanee Farnsworth

Children's Book and Media Review

Lizzie loves her dad, but sometimes he can be a bit distracted or embarassing. While Lizzie is online, she notices an ad for a Daddy Depot, a dad megastore where you can pick out a brand-new dad. Lizzie drags her dad to the Daddy Depot, ready to trade him in. She immediately takes off browsing the different aisles. Each new dad she meets isn’t what she pictured as the perfect dad. She searches all around, until she sees one dad dancing a silly chicken dance. She knows only one dad dances like that and realizes that her dad is the …

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Curiosity: The Story Of A Mars Rover, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

Curiosity: The Story Of A Mars Rover, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

Curiosity is the Mars Rover that launched in 2011. She has helped us discover much about the planet Mars through her exploration and tests. This book gives the history of Curiosity, how she got to Mars, and what she has done since. Written in first person from Curiosity’s perspective, this non-fiction account takes on a personality and engages readers in learning about the Mars Rover.

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Coming Home, Acacia Haws Dec 2018

Coming Home, Acacia Haws

Children's Book and Media Review

A boy waits in an airport, clearly looking for someone. He sees many other people reuniting with soldiers who are returning home. He watches people greeting their pets, their spouses, and their children. The boy makes note of them, but he continues to look for the soldier he is waiting for. Finally, he finds who he is looking for and they reunite.

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Claymates, Katherine Martin Dec 2018

Claymates, Katherine Martin

Children's Book and Media Review

Starting out as two balls of clay, newfound friends are molded into a brown owl and a gray wolf by an artist. Left alone on the worktable, the clay creations come to life. With endless possibilities, they begin changing shape and playing with the art supplies left on the table. When they hear the artist return, they must hurry to get back to their original design.

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Clash Of Kingdoms #2: Ever The Brave, Lisi Merkley Dec 2018

Clash Of Kingdoms #2: Ever The Brave, Lisi Merkley

Children's Book and Media Review

After fighting to save the king and her kingdom that doesn’t accept her, all Britta wants is to live a normal, boring life in her cottage and maybe marry Cohen. But when the woman who almost took over the country in book one starts kidnapping all the channelers—women with magical abilities—in the neighboring country, it’s up to Britta to save the day again. Working with the king, Cohen, and some new friends, Britta is forced to come to terms with her new channeler powers, face some hard facts about her family, and stop a war between two countries.

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Captain Underpants And The Revolting Revenge Of The Radioactive Robo-Boxers, Haley Cook Dec 2018

Captain Underpants And The Revolting Revenge Of The Radioactive Robo-Boxers, Haley Cook

Children's Book and Media Review

Tippy Tinkletrousers, ever the super villain, wants revenge on Captain Underpants, his nemesis. Tippy has time travel on his side, and with another Tippy from the past, he is ready to wreak havoc and defeat Captain Underpants once and for all! George and Harold, along with their trusty pets, Crackers and Sulu, must try and stop Tippy as he attempts to extract his revenge, which ends up causing the extinction of dinosaurs and the ice age in the process. Unfortunately, George and Harold’s time machine is destroyed, so they need Tippy to get them back to the present. With the …

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Bug Girl, Becky Jamieson Dec 2018

Bug Girl, Becky Jamieson

Children's Book and Media Review

Oyster Cove has two superheroes that no one has seen in many years, but Amanda still has faith that they will save the town. When green monsters start appearing, the superheroes only watch as they are captured. It is then up to the next generation of superheroes to save the day. Amanda and Emily, daughters of the old heroes, each start developing superpowers. These ex-best friends will have to put their sixth-grade middle school animosity behind them if they want to save the town and their mothers. Using their new powers and a little help from their sidekick Vincent, the …

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Biggest, Baddest Book Of Bugs, Kati Penovich Dec 2018

Biggest, Baddest Book Of Bugs, Kati Penovich

Children's Book and Media Review

This bug-focused book begins by defining the word bug and giving a brief overview of the types of creatures that are classified as bugs. Readers will learn about the life cycle of bugs who go through metamorphosis and the strategies that bugs use to stay alive despite having many predators. The book goes on to explain some strange bug behaviors such as bees dancing and ants walking in a circle. The book ends on an interactive note, inviting readers to test their ability to recognize bugs up close and to answer questions about what they have just read.

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Big Nate: Flips Out, Haley Cook Dec 2018

Big Nate: Flips Out, Haley Cook

Children's Book and Media Review

Nate has just joined the yearbook club with his two best friends, Francis and Teddy, but to their dismay, the director is Gina, a bossy fellow sixth grader. Nate decides that his role in yearbook should be photographer so he can contribute lots of humorous candids for his fellow classmates to enjoy. Unfortunately, Nate is not known for being tidy and there’s no way Mrs. Godfrey, the audiovisual director, will allow him to take a camera - that is, unless Nate can convince Francis to borrow it for him. After receiving the borrowed camera from Francis, it goes missing and …

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Betty Before X, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

Betty Before X, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

No matter how hard she tries, Betty just can’t get her mother, Ollie Mae, to love her. One day, Betty decides that she has had enough of the beatings and lack of love, and so she runs away. A kind, well-off couple takes her in as their daughter. Soon, Betty and her friend Suesetta begin volunteering with the Housewives’ League, an organization that encourages people to not shop at places where Negroes can’t be hired. With all the prejudice, racism, and hate surrounding blacks at this time, Betty is determined to make a difference and learns from her new mother’s …

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Be Glad Your Dad Is Not An Octopus, Shelby Bunker Dec 2018

Be Glad Your Dad Is Not An Octopus, Shelby Bunker

Children's Book and Media Review

Be Glad Your Dad Is Not an Octopus by Matthew Logelin and Sara Jensen is a humorous story of a brother and sister who recognize their dad isn’t perfect and make plans for a new one! However, if their dad was any number of animals, they might be in a worse situation. The kids learn that, in the end, maybe their dad isn’t so bad after all.

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Another Little Piece, Cynthia Frazier Dec 2018

Another Little Piece, Cynthia Frazier

Children's Book and Media Review

Annaliese Rose Gordon was last seen the year before running out of the woods at a high school party, screaming and bleeding profusely from a head injury. Now she has been found walking along a road hundreds of miles away from her home with no memory of her life before or since. Though her parents are trying hard to help her adjust back to her old life, Annaliese still thinks of them as the mom, the dad or the parents. Annaliese is beginning to realize that her body doesn’t quite fit, and the memories and flashbacks she dreams of are …

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Animal Journeys, Haley Singleton Dec 2018

Animal Journeys, Haley Singleton

Children's Book and Media Review

Animal Journeys details the journeys of many different animals, with some traveling huge expanses of land and others hardly moving more than a few feet throughout their lifetime. Patricia Hegarty starts by showing all of the long distance migrating animals traveling up to 57,000 miles. From Arctic terns to ruby-throated hummingbirds, each animal has a unique journey. Hegarty then explores several marine animals that migrate, including reindeer, hippopotamuses, and humpback whales. Migrating animals who live in extreme temperatures come next in the book, including the fennec fox and the dung beetle, and then the book ends by sharing the interesting …

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And She Was, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

And She Was, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Eighteen-year-old Dara has just graduated high school and wants her mother’s support for her to go pro in the tennis world. While searching for some legal documents, Dara discovers a major secret: her mother is actually her biological father, and transitioned when Dara was very young. Without waiting for a bigger explanation, Dara leaves to find some answers about her extended family. Along the way, her mother writes her e-mails to explain what she went through growing up and why she did what she did. Dara is at first happy with her new extended family but later realizes that large …

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And Away We Go!, Sydnee Burr Dec 2018

And Away We Go!, Sydnee Burr

Children's Book and Media Review

Mr. Fox orders a hot air balloon so that he can fly to the moon. Upon takeoff, he meets his elephant friend who not only wants to come along but wants to stop for some pizza. As the friends rise through the city, they meet more friends with more take-out suggestions. Soon the party consists of a fox, a pizza loving elephant, musical squirrels, a giraffe thirsty for milkshakes, a dancing rhino, and card-playing rabbits. The wind blows, the strings snap, and the balloon heads to the moon as the animals touch ground. But Mr. Fox isn't mad, he's too …

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Amy The Red Panda Is Writing The Best Story In The World, Loretta Farnsworth Dec 2018

Amy The Red Panda Is Writing The Best Story In The World, Loretta Farnsworth

Children's Book and Media Review

Amy the red panda starts composing a story, but then the letters explode and declare that she is writing the best story in the world. Before she can resume telling her story, however, her friends gather around and begin making suggestions. Upset at being unable to tell her story, Amy tears down the words. Her best friend, Mervin the sloth, helps cheer her up, and she finishes by writing “Amy and Mervin had a fun day.” The rest of their friends reappear to compliment the sentence and request another story.

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Almost Paradise, Mavanee Farnsworth Dec 2018

Almost Paradise, Mavanee Farnsworth

Children's Book and Media Review

Ruby Clyde, a twelve-year-old living with her single mother, wakes up in the back of Catfish’s car. Catfish is her mother’s boyfriend. Her mother, Babe, is sitting in the passenger seat. As a pit stop is made, Catfish impulsively commits an armed robbery, throwing both Catfish and Babe in jail. Ruby escapes to find her estranged aunt, her mom’s identical twin, who lives nearby. Aunt Eleanor is a nun suffering from cancer, and together they attempt to bail Babe out of jail. Catfish testifies against Babe and reports that she encouraged the robbery. Ruby is put up for adoption and …

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Alan Cole Is Not A Coward, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Alan Cole Is Not A Coward, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Alan Cole likes painting and staying out of people's way, especially when it comes to his cold father and cruel older brother, Nathan. If he had his way, he'd spend his days learning how to paint faces and sneaking looks at Connor, the cutest boy in school. But when Nathan comes to him with a series of challenges, Alan finds himself stretched to the very limit of his comfort zone. Alan can't say no to the challenges because Nathan threatens to tell the whole school about his crush on Connor. Alan finds that the challenges push him to become something …

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A Voyage In The Clouds: The (Mostly) True Story Of The First International Flight By Balloon In 1785, Nicole Clark Dec 2018

A Voyage In The Clouds: The (Mostly) True Story Of The First International Flight By Balloon In 1785, Nicole Clark

Children's Book and Media Review

In 1753, no one had ever traveled from one country to another via hot air balloon— until British Dr. John Jeffries and Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard determine to be the first. Their aerial adventure is filled with hangups, however, not the least of which is that the two men are rivals who try to thwart each other before the balloon even leaves the ground. More problems await them in the air, forcing them to set aside their differences and find a creative solution that will land them safely on French soil.

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A Secret Keeps, Acacia Haws Dec 2018

A Secret Keeps, Acacia Haws

Children's Book and Media Review

A young boy goes with his family to visit his grandparents’ farm. They promise him there is a secret waiting for him, but when he arrives, no one will tell him what the secret is. He searches all over the farm to discover the secret, exploring fields and the barn, questioning animals. He enjoys time with his grandparents roasting marshmallows and helping collect eggs. Finally, he finds the farm cat’s litter of new kittens. He chooses one to keep and names it Secret.

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A Porcupine Named Fluffy, Makayla Anderson Dec 2018

A Porcupine Named Fluffy, Makayla Anderson

Children's Book and Media Review

Fluffy’s parents wanted Fluffy to stand out, so they gave him a unique name. As he gets older, Fluffy goes through a journey of trying to fit the stereotype that his name has given him. He tries everything from becoming like a cloud to soaking in the tub for a really long time, but nothing works. Ready to give up on living up to his name, he meets a rhino with an unusual name as well. After a good laugh, Fluffy realizes that he is unique and can be himself no matter how Fluffy he isn’t.

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A Memory Of Violets, Sydnee Burr Dec 2018

A Memory Of Violets, Sydnee Burr

Children's Book and Media Review

Leaving a complicated past and all that is familiar behind, Tilly rides the train to London to start a new job as Housemother in Mr. Shaw’s Training Homes for Watercress and Flower Girls. Grateful for the chance to start anew, and refreshed by the fact that no one knows her or her history, Tilly revels in her new life, job, and friends. After finding a hidden collection of letters in her room, Tilly embarks on a journey of discovery revolving around two sisters living barefoot on the streets of London. As she learns more about their relationship, she yearns for …

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A Happy Hat, Kayla Packard Dec 2018

A Happy Hat, Kayla Packard

Children's Book and Media Review

A hat reminisces about its creation and the ups and downs of being passed from owner to owner. When the hat is taken away by a stray dog, it finds itself alone in the woods. A mother bird finds the hat and builds a nest inside for her eggs. The hat provides shelter and warmth as the babies hatch and grow. As the birds fly away, the hat looks forward to future use and finds joy in helping others in different, and sometimes unconventional, ways. Readers will be inspired by this simple illustration of being positive amidst trying circumstances, feeling …

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A Game For Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return, Jared Leighton Dec 2018

A Game For Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return, Jared Leighton

Children's Book and Media Review

Zeina is an energetic young girl caught, quite literally, in the firing line of the Lebanese Civil war. Zeina’s home city of Beirut is partitioned into two parts, the West side being Muslim and the East side being Christian. Crossing into either side follows a deadly risk of sniper fire. One day, Zeina’s parents take longer than usual to come home. Zeina grows very worried. To cheer Zeina up, her Grandmother tells of different stories of the family, neighbors, and friends. The reader is is taken on a journey of life in Lebanon along with its culture and everyday activities. …

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