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The Fintastic Fish Sitter, Kaley Durney Dec 2018

The Fintastic Fish Sitter, Kaley Durney

Children's Book and Media Review

Tom and his friend Pradeep have a pet goldfish named Frankie, and Tom’s brother has a kitten named Fang. Fang and Frankie really don’t get along. This becomes a challenge when Tom and Pradeep ask Pradeep’s sister Sami to fish-sit for them. They give her a list of things to help her, and her biggest task it to keep Fang and Frankie away from each other. That is really hard to do, so she finally tells them that if they can’t play together, they will have to play her games. Since they can't get along, she dresses them up as …

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The Exact Location Of Home, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

The Exact Location Of Home, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

It’s been three years since Zig’s seen his dad. Thinking a geocacher called Senior Searcher is actually his father, Zig uses an old GPS unit to track down different geocaches in the hope that he’ll find some clue about his father's whereabouts. Meanwhile, the bills are adding up and Zig and his mom are evicted from their apartment and go to live in a homeless shelter. His grades are dropping, he spends less time with his friends, and he’s no closer to finding his dad than before. Eventually, he finds out that his dad has actually been in jail, which …

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The Curse Of Einstein's Pencil, Sarah Lloyd Dec 2018

The Curse Of Einstein's Pencil, Sarah Lloyd

Children's Book and Media Review

Bea Garcia needs a new best friend since hers moved far away to Australia. The smartest girl in her class, Einstein, asks her to be her partner in the Top Ten Geography Star contest. The two of them get together and Einstein assigns Bea 257 facts to learn before the next day. Bea is worried she won’t be able to remember them all. She looks over at Einstein and sees that only right answers come out of her pencil. Bea takes Einstein’s pencil home but discovers that, instead of writing, Bea cannot help but draw the answers. She realizes that …

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The Creepy Case Files Of Margo Maloo, Natalie Hatch Dec 2018

The Creepy Case Files Of Margo Maloo, Natalie Hatch

Children's Book and Media Review

Charles Thompson is being forced to move to Echo City with his parents as his father works on renovating a building. But when Charles moves into the penthouse with his family, he finds out that there is a lot more to Echo City than just the crime rates and perceived danger. A closet monster starts wreaking havoc in his life. Desperate and not sure what to do, he calls Margo Maloo, the monster mediator that his new neighbor recommends. Together, Charles and Margo are able to solve the closet monster issue as well as let curious Charles see that there …

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The Berenson Schemes: Jack The Castaway, Phyllis Rosen Dec 2018

The Berenson Schemes: Jack The Castaway, Phyllis Rosen

Children's Book and Media Review

When his Aunt Julia dies, eleven-year-old Jack is taken to the Caribbean by his irresponsible parents. They have no concept of protecting or taking care of Jack, but are off on another get-rich-quick scheme. Jack is dragged along and finds himself shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. He has to figure out how to survive while he hopes for rescue. His parents eventually come looking for him, but it is through his own efforts and abilities that he manages to save himself and his parents.

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Tentacle And Wing, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

Tentacle And Wing, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Ada has known for most of her life that she is a kime, a human-animal hybrid from an unknown source. She looks fully human, though, and this allows her to keep it secret. Her father teaches her to lie about how things look to her, because her hidden hybrid gift is infrared vision. Most kines (chimera) have visible mutations--wings, tentacles, flippers, and such. Humans fear, persecute, and isolate kimes. When a test reveals Ada's true nature, she is relieved to think that she will no longer have to conceal her real self. But when she arrives at the kime facility, …

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Sword Art Online (Sao), Natalie Hatch Dec 2018

Sword Art Online (Sao), Natalie Hatch

Children's Book and Media Review

Nervegear has developed Sword Art Online, an all-inclusive gaming experience where the gamers can see, feel, taste, smell, and hear everything in game, all while keeping their bodies stationary. Kirito is one of the lucky individuals selected as a beta tester and joins ten thousand players on the day the game launches. However, none of the players have a logout button and the players are trapped. The creator confirms this, teleporting them all and making an announcement that their lives are irrevocably tied to the game now, and if they die here, they die in the real world. The only …

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Storyworlds: A Moment In Time; A Perpetual Picture Atlas, Nicole Clark Dec 2018

Storyworlds: A Moment In Time; A Perpetual Picture Atlas, Nicole Clark

Children's Book and Media Review

It's 2:00 pm in New York City, and a worker is cleaning the glassy windows of a skyscraper. At the same moment, it's 9:00 pm in Santorini, Greece, and a brilliant sunset is falling over white cycladic houses. Simultaneously, a meteor shower over Perth, Australia lights up the 2:00 am sky. This picture-only atlas depicts the same moment in time at over 100 places across the globe, providing a round-the-world snapshot of what is happening at a variety of locations at each time zone.

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Star Wars Jedi Academy: The Force Oversleeps, Kaley Durney Dec 2018

Star Wars Jedi Academy: The Force Oversleeps, Kaley Durney

Children's Book and Media Review

Victor Starspeeder is starting his second year at Jedi Academy and everything is going well until he meets Zavyer, who has all the same friends. Zavyer is very similar to Victor. They spent some time together and Victor realizes that they have lots in common. Victor realizes his older sister Christina isn’t acting normal. After finals they have their big school dance, and someone tells Victor that Christina is on the roof. When Victor and his friends get up their they see her talking to someone from the dark side. It turns out to be Victor's father! Their father tries …

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Spirit Hunters, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

Spirit Hunters, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Harper can't remember the fire at her school or her stay at a mental hospital, where she received massive injuries that no one could explain. She is angry and unhappy in the Victorian mansion that her family has recently moved into. To make matters worse, her sweet little brother is turning into a very mean little stranger. Things get better when she makes a new best friend, Dayo, whose mother is a wonderful cook. Slowly, Harper's memory returns and she remembers her previous experiences with ghosts, realizing that her little brother is in serious danger. With the help of her …

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Shark Dog!, Kristie Hinckley Dec 2018

Shark Dog!, Kristie Hinckley

Children's Book and Media Review

A little boy travels with his dad, who is a famous explorer. On their way home from an exotic island, the boy discovers a shark dog has joined their expedition! His dad lets him bring Shark Dog home with them. Shark Dog’s favorite place to go is the ocean, that is, until he spots what he thinks is another shark dog and becomes very homesick. So dad and the little boy bring Shark Dog back to his home. It is a glorious reunion for Shark Dog. Eventually, they all have to say goodbye, but surprisingly, Shark Dog chooses to go …

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Set To Sea, Natlalie Hatch Dec 2018

Set To Sea, Natlalie Hatch

Children's Book and Media Review

There was once a large man who dreamed of being a poet. He ran up tabs at the local taverns and bars by day and slept near the sea by night, hoping to draw inspiration for his poetry. One night, he is knocked out and shanghaied onto a boat where he becomes a regular sailor subject to bad food, violence, the pain and hardships of the sea, and the life of a sailor. He learns to see the sea through a sailor's eyes as well as see the things that were missing from his poetry and writing. Finally, after a …

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Romeo, Juliet & Jim, Emilee Bell Dec 2018

Romeo, Juliet & Jim, Emilee Bell

Children's Book and Media Review

The classic Shakespearean tragedy is set in modern-day Paris between two rival fashion families. Romeo and Juliet are young, rich, beautiful, and star-crossed. The tale takes a turn with the arrival of the cocky American Jim, son of business tycoon and determined to ruin the reigns of both houses. Friendships entangle, love gets confusing, and betrayal runs rampant. The end of the book doesn’t finish the story. We’re left with a dead Henri, a drunk Romeo climbing a tree to Juliet’s empty bedroom, and Juliet and Jim rolling around in the muddy graveyard in a fit of passion. No resolution …

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Romeo, Juliet & Jim, Charlotte Esplin Dec 2018

Romeo, Juliet & Jim, Charlotte Esplin

Children's Book and Media Review

As children of the two biggest fashion houses in Paris, Romeo and Juliet engage in a relationship that they know is wrong. Doing all they can to keep their relationship a secret, the two teenagers meet up for undercover rendezvous in secluded hotels. All is well until one day, the pair are nearly discovered, an event that leads them to meet Jim. Young, rich and handsome, Jim fits in perfectly with Romeo and Juliet. The three quickly become friends, but Jim is holding a secret deep within his heart: his father has plans to destroy both fashion houses to make …

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Ribsy, Nicole Clark Dec 2018

Ribsy, Nicole Clark

Children's Book and Media Review

It all started with a pesky flea that lodged under Ribsy's collar in a place he couldn't quite reach. Mercifully, Ribsy's boy, Henry Huggins, removes the collar, but when Ribsy gets lost in a crowded shopping area, he has no way of being reunited with his family. Ribsy thus embarks on a wild and adventurous journey to find his way home. Along the way, he encounters a violet-scented bubble bath, becomes a school mascot, turns the tide of a high school football game, and, out of necessity, eats more tuna fish than he would prefer. At last, Ribsy’s wild journey …

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Ready Player One, Natalie Hatch Dec 2018

Ready Player One, Natalie Hatch

Children's Book and Media Review

Virtual reality developer James Halliday dies leaving gamers to find his in-game Easter Egg. Parzival is an orphan and dreams of nothing more than winning, along with millions of others including the dastardly Innovative Online Industries, home of the sixers, individuals who have numbers instead of names. Parzival’s best friend Aech is also searching for the egg, along with Art3mis, Daito, and Shoto. The ‘High-5’ have spent their lives studying Halliday, his loves, his life, everything. They individually try to solve the game on their own, until the IOI start taking them out one-by-one. Og was Halliday’s only real friend …

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Purity, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Purity, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Shelby made three promises right before her mother died: one, that she'd love and listen to her father; two, that she'd love as much as possible; and three, that she'd live a life without restraint. When her father asks her to attend a father-daughter Princess Ball with him, two of her promises come into conflict. Shelby doesn't think she can live without restraint and maintain the ball's idea of "purity." To remedy this conflict, she and her best friends come up with a plan for Shelby to lose her virginity before the ball. As she goes about trying to find …

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Penguins, Kimberly Jackson Dec 2018

Penguins, Kimberly Jackson

Children's Book and Media Review

Penguins is a quick descriptive book all about the charming black and white birds that can’t fly. A simple introduction to the basics of what these birds look like and what they do is accompanied by large, clear, pictures of penguins in a variety of environments and actions. Most of the book is descriptive, but it ends with a searching question to the reader that is sure to get a curious child thinking, “Have you seen a penguin?”

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Our Brothers At The Bottom Of The Bottom Of The Sea, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Our Brothers At The Bottom Of The Bottom Of The Sea, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Teenagers Rachel and Ethan have never met, but they have one thing in common: they both lost their brothers last summer. In the midst of their grief, both struggle to put the pieces of their lives back together and find meaning in moving forward. But as they try to make peace with their pasts, they begin discovering secrets that could reveal dark motives and make both of their brothers' deaths even more tragic. With the help of friends Leonard, Diana, and Jason, Ethan and Rachel unlock the mysteries surrounding their brothers' deaths and learn more about what it takes to …

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Orphan Train Girl, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Orphan Train Girl, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

In this young reader adaptation of her adult book Orphan Train, Kline tells the story of Molly Ayer, a young girl who's been moved around frequently in foster homes. When Molly gets into trouble one day, she has to do twenty hours of community service with Vivian Daly, an elderly woman in her town. She's supposed to help Vivian clean out her attic, which has accumulated belongings and memories for years, but the project turns into a way for Vivian to tell her life story to someone who understands. Like Molly, Vivian became an orphan in the late 1920s and …

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Orphan Train Girl, Melissa Secor Dec 2018

Orphan Train Girl, Melissa Secor

Children's Book and Media Review

Molly has been moving from foster home to foster home ever since her father died in a car accident. Nowhere feels like home, and no one understands. Everything changes when Molly ends up with community service and has to help an old lady, Vivian, clean out her attic. As Molly helps Vivian, she learns more about Vivian’s childhood and history, and slowly Molly realizes that her and Vivian have more in common than she ever would have guessed. When Vivian was ten, she was placed on an “Orphan Train” that took her and many other orphans across the country in …

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Orphan Train Girl, Cynthia Frazier Dec 2018

Orphan Train Girl, Cynthia Frazier

Children's Book and Media Review

What does a twelve-year-old Penobscot Indian have in common with a wealthy ninety-one-year-old woman? At first it seems that they are worlds apart. Molly Ayer, through assigned community service hours, helps Vivian Daly clean out her attic. The upper story of the big house is full of junk and Vivian doesn’t want to throw anything away. Instead stories of her childhood unfold as she discovers forgotten mementos long packed away in boxes. Molly finds that Vivian became an orphan too not long after emigrating from Ireland. Vivian had been assigned to a train filled with orphans that traveled to homes …

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Noisy Night, Kristie Hinckley Dec 2018

Noisy Night, Kristie Hinckley

Children's Book and Media Review

It’s nighttime and a young boy who lives in an apartment building hears a noise above his head. It’s a man who is singing opera. The man who is singing opera hears a noise above his head too! It’s a baby cooing. The baby hears a noise above his head. It’s a sheep speaking. This goes on and on, until, at the top of the apartment building, an old man is hollering “Go to bed!”

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No Parking At The End Of Times, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

No Parking At The End Of Times, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Sixteen-year-old Abigail lives in a van in San Francisco with her parents and her twin brother, Aaron. They sold their house and everything they owned, following a pastor named Brother John, to prepare for the end of the world. After a few weeks, the apocalypse still hasn't happened. Abigail is worried about Aaron, who disappears every night, and she's also worried about her parents, who don't seem to be doing anything to make a more permanent home. When she follows Aaron one night to find him meeting up with other homeless teenagers, she's at first upset and then relieved to …

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Nighttime Ninja, Kimberly Jackson Dec 2018

Nighttime Ninja, Kimberly Jackson

Children's Book and Media Review

Ready to live the life of a ninja? Nighttime Ninja takes the reader on a journey through a ninja’s late night capers. He climbs, uses a grappling hook, and stealthily sneaks through hallways to get to his destination. The ninja appears to be infiltrating enemy territory until the story takes a sudden twist. The true identity of the ninja is revealed when his mother turns on the lights and catches him in the act of sneaking a midnight snack. The “ninja” is gently reprimanded and sent on a new mission: getting back into bed.

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My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish, Haley Singleton Dec 2018

My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish, Haley Singleton

Children's Book and Media Review

Older siblings are the worst. At least, that’s the opinion of most younger siblings, including Tom. While simulating the effect of pollution on fish, Tom’s evil older brother Max almost kills Frankie, the goldfish. After being shocked back to life, Frankie must now escape Max’s multiple diabolical attempts to recapture him. Max is soon accompanied by his neighbor, who joins in his evil plan to help capture Frankie and eventually take over the entire elementary school. Tom and his friend, Pradeep, must find a way to stop them, and save Frankie in the process.

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Monstress: Vol 1. Awakening, Natalie Hatch Dec 2018

Monstress: Vol 1. Awakening, Natalie Hatch

Children's Book and Media Review

Maika is a seventeen-year-old survivor of a horrible war between human and Arcainics, animal-dark-magic hybrids. Now, humans sell these Arcainics as slaves, experiment on them, and collect Lilium, a precious magical chemical, from their dead and dying bodies. Cumaea are the powerful witch-nuns who do a majority of the killing and harvesting from Arcainics. Maika, one such slave, is trying to figure out her own past, her place in the world, why her mother was killed, where the unknown voice inside her is coming from, and what she’s supposed to do about all of it. She finds friends in a …

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Monkey & Robot, Kaley Durney Dec 2018

Monkey & Robot, Kaley Durney

Children's Book and Media Review

Robot convinces Monkey to watch a scary monster movie with him. Monkey screams quite a bit and finally puts a blanket over his head. Robot suggests that he hum so he doesn’t hear the scary music. Then Robot and Monkey decide to play a game. Monkey is nervous and doesn’t want to, but tries anyway. The dice is thrown out the window and Monkey goes to get it, but the dog gets it first, so he ends up chasing the dog for the whole game. Robot then finds a cocoon outside and shows Monkey. In the morning, a moth comes …

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Mighty Truck: Muddymania!, Kristie Hinckley Dec 2018

Mighty Truck: Muddymania!, Kristie Hinckley

Children's Book and Media Review

Clarence is a truck who can secretly transform into Mighty Truck when there’s trouble. Bruno is Clarence’s best friend. When Clarence needs to save the day, he has to sneak away and misses out on fun with Bruno. Clarence decides that the best way to make it up to his friend is to bring him to the biggest truck event of the year, Muddymania! But when they arrive, they see that the water truck, Flo, has fallen asleep on the job and put everyone at the event in danger. Clarence chooses to reveal his secret transforming powers in order to …

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Michael Vey: The Final Spark, Loretta Farnsworth Dec 2018

Michael Vey: The Final Spark, Loretta Farnsworth

Children's Book and Media Review

Despite Michael Vey’s apparent death at the battle of Hades, Michael’s girlfriend, Taylor, seems to be haunted by his ghost. Dr. Hatch is still alive and captures the Electroclan. Austin and Jack escape while the bulk of the Electroclan is interrogated in Elgen-controlled Tuvalu. Meanwhile, Jack and Austin find citizens of Tuvalu who want to free their people from Elgen control. Through the guidance of Michael, who appears in a ghostly form, Austin and Jack assist in the rebellion. Before Dr. Hatch can execute the Electroclan, Michael Vey appears. He had turned himself into electricity in the explosion at Hades …

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