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Mary Mcscary, Phyllis Rosen Dec 2018

Mary Mcscary, Phyllis Rosen

Children's Book and Media Review

Mary McScary is a young girl who likes scaring everyone. She scares people and animals, but she can't seem to scare her cousin Harry. She tries every trick she can think of: snakes, spiders, a monster, even a hippo. But nothing works. Finally she thinks of something that will scare Harry - a kiss.

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Marked Girl: The Broken World, Natalie Hatch Dec 2018

Marked Girl: The Broken World, Natalie Hatch

Children's Book and Media Review

Cedric and Kat are finally back in Caelum with Liv. Liv only comes with the hope of saving her brother while Kat and Cedric try to free their families, overthrow Malquin, and return Caelum back to normal. On Earth, the Knights of Valere are going missing, or showing up dead. Merek, Shannon, and Joe are the only ones who know what’s going on and are trying to find a way to stop their world from ending while Liv is in Caelum. Eventually the crew reunites and must combine their quests in order to save both of the worlds suffering from …

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Mama Lion Wins The Race, Kimberly Jackson Dec 2018

Mama Lion Wins The Race, Kimberly Jackson

Children's Book and Media Review

It’s the morning of the big race and Mama Lion and Tigey are ready to go! They start off with an early lead, until they have to swerve off the road suddenly to avoid running into a butterfly. Fortunately they aren’t out of the race for long, thanks to the Flying Pandinis, who get their vehicle up and running in no time. Mama Lion and Tigey are actually catching up to the leaders, but in the end, they decide to forfeit in favor of the Flying Pandinis. Tigey realizes that the friendship they gained that day was worth more than …

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Making Friends With Billy Wong, Phyllis Rosen Dec 2018

Making Friends With Billy Wong, Phyllis Rosen

Children's Book and Media Review

Azelea is dropped off by her mother to look after her Grandma Clark for the summer. Grandma hurt her ankle and needs help with her house and especially with her garden. She has three other children who come in weekly to help with the garden. One is a Chinese American named Billy Wong, one a troubled boy named Willis, and one a gossipy, dressed-to-the nines girl named Melinda. Azelea learns that appearances are not always what they seem. She gradually becomes friends with Billy, and learns that being in Arkansas for the summer might not be so bad after all.

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Mac & Cheese, Haley Singleton Dec 2018

Mac & Cheese, Haley Singleton

Children's Book and Media Review

Mac and Cheese are two polar opposites who happen to compliment each other perfectly. Mac is analytical, while Cheese is imaginative. This three-part book follows these friends through breakfast, lunch, and dinner, where they learn about the importance of friendship. They think about math problems, debate the merits of art, and even look at the stars.

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Lullaby (For A Black Mother), Taylor Nelson Dec 2018

Lullaby (For A Black Mother), Taylor Nelson

Children's Book and Media Review

An African-American mother makes up a lullaby for her child. She wonders what she should sing about—the stars, the moon, the night? In the end she combines them all into a lovely lullaby for her precious child. The lyrical poem and illustrations show the bond between a mother and her child and celebrates a bedtime ritual that everyone can relate to.

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Little Penguin And The Lollipop, Kimberly Jackson Dec 2018

Little Penguin And The Lollipop, Kimberly Jackson

Children's Book and Media Review

Kenneth the seagull is in a foul mood one day, and his reason for frustration quickly becomes obvious: his friend the little penguin has eaten his Razzle-Dazzle Seaweed Lollipop! Little penguin tries everything he can think of to apologize and make it up to his friend, even enlisting the help of the reader to making goofy faces in an attempt to cheer up Kenneth. But nothing seems to be working! Then, by a stroke of luck, little penguin manages to find another Razzle-Dazzle Seaweed Lollipop. Kenneth is overjoyed and quickly gobbles it up, only to find out little penguin may …

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Little Peach, Emma Patton Dec 2018

Little Peach, Emma Patton

Children's Book and Media Review

Michelle is in the hospital, and she has a decision to make. There is a professional woman who says that she wants to help, but Michelle doesn’t know whether she should tell the truth. Through a series of flashbacks, Michelle reveals exactly how she got to the be in this position. She remembers a positive early childhood, being raised by her grandfather until he passes away. Then, all she has left is her drug-addicted mother and her mother’s boyfriend, whose physical advances scare Michelle. At age fourteen, she leaves home to live in New York. Soon, she meets Devon, who …

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Little Peach, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Little Peach, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Fourteen-year-old Michelle is kicked out of her house after her loving grandfather dies, leaving her with her crackhead mother. She runs away to make a new start in New York City but is quickly lured into a prostitution ring by a man named Devon. Michelle and her two other "sisters," Kat and Baby, sleep all day and work at night. Devon keeps them on narcotics to help them through the long nights. Eventually, Kat decides to quit the drugs, which makes Devon mad. After Kat's beaten senseless, Michelle, now called Little Peach, realizes that her "daddy" doesn't care about her …

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Libby And Pearl: The Best Of Friends, Beverly Jones Dec 2018

Libby And Pearl: The Best Of Friends, Beverly Jones

Children's Book and Media Review

Libby and Pearl: The Best of Friends is the precious story of a little girl and her pet pig. There is a very special message in this book about unlikely friendship. As the author says, these two are a funny pair, but that doesn't matter. Friends don't have to be exactly the same or even look alike. Friends come in all shapes and sizes. On each page of this book, there is a colorful photograph of some of Libby and Pearl's fun adventures. Life is always more fun with a friend!

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Lana's World: Let's Go To The Moon!, Kristie Hinckley Dec 2018

Lana's World: Let's Go To The Moon!, Kristie Hinckley

Children's Book and Media Review

Young, imaginative Lana excitedly approaches her parents about traveling to the moon. Her parents say the moon is far away and that it’s lonely. Her brothers, Jay and Ray, aren't encouraging either. They say she’ll float away because there’s no gravity. Lana builds a rocket out of boxes and secures her space suit. Her room becomes a launch pad and, soon enough, she’s on the moon! In her imagination, the moon isn’t lonely. In fact, her family comes with her. They help keep her from floating away due to the lack of gravity. Lana gets hungry and decides to head …

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Just Friends, Rachel Aedo Dec 2018

Just Friends, Rachel Aedo

Children's Book and Media Review

Chance is a truant heartbreaker, and Jenny is shy and studious. With one quick lie they convince everyone that they’ve been best friends since they were children, and the lie grows into a deep friendship that each relies on. However, it becomes something more when they both realize their feelings for each other and refuse to admit the truth, resulting in heartbreak and anguish on both sides. Chance’s family is falling apart and Jenny is humiliated beyond anything she could have imagined, and neither can predict if revealing their love will save or ruin their relationship. They’ve bonded over a …

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Invisible Emmie, Rachel Aedo Dec 2018

Invisible Emmie, Rachel Aedo

Children's Book and Media Review

Emmie is invisible. Her parents overlook her, she has only one friend, and her crush has no inkling that she exists. She’s encouraged to speak up for herself and reach out to others, but it’s easier to quietly draw. This book is her journal, fully illustrating the worst day of her life. Katie’s life is the exact opposite of Emmie’s. Katie is the most popular girl in school, has more friends than her house can fit, and the cutest boy in school just asked her out! This might just be the best day of her life, until Emmie’s love note …

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Invisible Emmie, Olivia Noli Dec 2018

Invisible Emmie, Olivia Noli

Children's Book and Media Review

Invisible Emmie by Terri Libenson is a graphic novel about Emmie and Katie: two middle school girls on opposite ends of the popularity spectrum. One day Emmie and her friend Bri are writing love notes to their crushes for fun, but Emmie accidentally drops hers. When the class clown shares the note with everyone, including Katie who is dating Emmie's crush, her day quickly becomes a nightmare. Eventually, Emmie learns to stand up for herself while Katie discovers more about who she truly is.

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Invisible Emmie, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

Invisible Emmie, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

Emmie is a girl who seems invisible. She likes to draw and keep to herself, so not many people notice her. But everything changes when she accidentally drops a love note she wrote to her crush. It gets spread all over the school and Emmie thinks she might die of humiliation. Before school’s out, she has to face her crush in art class. There she finds out that everyone thinks her note was a funny joke and she starts relaxing. She ends up talking and laughing with her crush and another girl all through art. Emmie realizes that it’s not …

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In Real Life, Natalie Hatch Dec 2018

In Real Life, Natalie Hatch

Children's Book and Media Review

Anda has recently moved from her hometown, her grandmother, and her old friends. She has a hard time fitting in because of her physical appearance and love of gaming. She’s only played off-line games until Liza the Organiza, president of Clan Fahrenheit in Coursegold Online, comes and talks at her school. She offers the girls there a temporary three-month membership to her clan with possible full membership afterwards if they can prove themselves. The only catch? To embrace themselves as girls, in-game and out. Anda accepts and learns about economics, different cultures, languages, bullying, and helps a ‘gold farmer’ named …

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In A Dark, Dark Room And Other Scary Stories: Reillustrated Edition (I Can Read Level 2), Karen Abbott Dec 2018

In A Dark, Dark Room And Other Scary Stories: Reillustrated Edition (I Can Read Level 2), Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

This is a compilation of seven chilling tales to read aloud or memorize and tell around the campfire. In the first story, a boy walking home in the evening meets three men with unusually long teeth that frighten him home. In the second, a plump woman sitting in a graveyard looks upon some corpses and considers the thin fate awaiting her after her own demise. In the third, a green ribbon holds a girls head in place until one day her husband removes it! Each short story will shiver your spine.

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I Survived The Eruption Of Mount St. Helens, 1980, Christopher Bernier Dec 2018

I Survived The Eruption Of Mount St. Helens, 1980, Christopher Bernier

Children's Book and Media Review

Jess and her two friends want to investigate the legend of the Skeleton Lady who lives near St. Helens. They head up to the mountain, find the Skeleton Lady’s old house, and go inside to take a look around and take pictures. While investigating, a large earthquake rocks the house, and the teens narrowly escape before a tree lands on it. They safely return to town and meet Dr. Morales, a scientist studying volcanoes. During conversation with him, they learn that Mt. St. Helens is about to erupt. Jess, realizing she left her diseased father’s camera in the Skeleton Lady’s …

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Grisha Verse #3: Ruin And Rising, Natalie Hatch Dec 2018

Grisha Verse #3: Ruin And Rising, Natalie Hatch

Children's Book and Media Review

In the final installment of Grisha Verse, Alina Starkov and Mala, along with the few surviving grisha are once again captive. Instead of the Darkling, the priest is now their jailer with hundreds of believers surrounding them on all sides. Alina must grapple with the fact that she has not been able to use her power and summon light. Through a desperate attempt on the groups part, she is able to reawaken her power, take control back from the priest, resurface, find the third amplifier, and finally see the fall of the Darkling and the banishment of the void.

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Grisha Verse #2: Siege And Storm, Natalie Hatch Dec 2018

Grisha Verse #2: Siege And Storm, Natalie Hatch

Children's Book and Media Review

Alina Starkov and Mala are on the run from the Darkling who survived the attack in the Fold. They flee the country, but they are tracked and hunted down, the Darkling once again making them his captive. He uses them against each other, getting Mal to hunt another amplifier down, this one a sea dragon. Mal and Anika escape, but the sea dragon is dead, and another amplifier is added to Anika’s body. They return to their realm in hopes of helping establish peace, but are again trapped, hunted down, and targeted by the Darkling who kills hundreds in his …

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Grisha Verse #1: Shadow And Bone, Natalie Hatch Dec 2018

Grisha Verse #1: Shadow And Bone, Natalie Hatch

Children's Book and Media Review

Alina Starkov is an orphan, soldier, and apprentice map-maker. She is in love with Mal, her best friend and fellow soldier, but never tells him. Everything changes when their group attempts to cross the Shadow Fold and they are attacked. Alina releases a magic she never knew she had, attracting the Darkling, the most powerful man in the kingdom. Upon him taking her into ‘protective custody,’ she meets Genya, who sees to her beauty-needs and then Baghra, in charge of trying to cultivate her powers to fight against the Shadow Fold. As time goes on, Alina realizes she’s in more …

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Friends Always, Acacia Haws Dec 2018

Friends Always, Acacia Haws

Children's Book and Media Review

Friends Always follows a child's mental process of getting over a fight with a friend. He proclaims he will never play with Quentin again, and he begins to think about each of his other friends and what he likes about each of them. Most of the book is the child's descriptions of his other friends. In the end, the doorbell rings and Quentin invites him to play. They go to the park together, their argument forgotten. After the story there are some notes by the author about the process of social development and how parents can help.

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Frazzled: Everyday Disasters And Impending Doom, Jamie Greenwood Dec 2018

Frazzled: Everyday Disasters And Impending Doom, Jamie Greenwood

Children's Book and Media Review

Abbie Wu is perpetually stuck in what she calls “The Middles”. She’s the middle child, always stuck in the middle seat, and now she’s starting middle school. Just as she feared, Abbie’s first day is a complete disaster. Abbie finds herself feeling alone and out of place, that is, until she finds a way to remedy the middle school’s lunch situation by starting an underground snack swap. Everyone loves it! Then her prized snack swap gets shut down by the school, and Abbie starts to despair again. With the help of her older brother and her Aunt Lisa, Abbie learns …

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Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Leonard Peacock plans to go to school, come home, shoot his ex-best friend Asher Beal, and then kill himself. But first, he has to give the few friends and important people in his life some farewell gifts. He reminisces on how he got to where he currently is and how life never gets any better. Alternating between moments of truth and clarity and moments of self-loathing and despair, Leonard's journey is full of many ups and downs. Ultimately, Leonard realizes he doesn't have it in him to kill Asher, who we later find out sexually abused Leonard for two years …

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Forever, Or A Long, Long Time, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

Forever, Or A Long, Long Time, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

After living most of their life in the foster care system, Flora and Julian are still dealing with the trauma. Though they’d been adopted by a wonderful lady two years earlier, when they find out she is having a baby, they worry that there will not be enough love to go around. Julian used to hide food in his closet, while Flora would stop talking because her words got stuck. These problems had been getting better, but once they found out about the baby, they started occurring more regularly again. To help them work through the trauma of their early …

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Following Grandfather, Jamie Greenwood Dec 2018

Following Grandfather, Jamie Greenwood

Children's Book and Media Review

Jenny, a sweet little mouse growing up in Boston, has spent most of her childhood following her grandfather. Grandfather taught Jenny everything she knows, such as the names of all the seashells on Revere Beach and the importance of kindness and self-confidence in spite of social status. Grandfather has lovingly raised Jenny while her parents have been busy running the Italian restaurant that Grandfather himself started when he first came to America from Naples, Italy. But one day, Grandfather is suddenly gone, and Jenny finds herself attending his funeral in disbelief and denial. Jenny spent so much time following Grandfather …

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Family Tree #4: Home Is The Place, Leah Christopher Dec 2018

Family Tree #4: Home Is The Place, Leah Christopher

Children's Book and Media Review

In her growing-up years, Georgia struggles to make sense of the paranoia of her over-protective mother, the rift between her grandmother and great-grandmother, and the unexplained death of her great-great-grandmother. While piecing together these puzzles, Georgia also learns from loss—she watches her older brother make choices that lead to her teacher’s death in a car accident, sees her father struggle with unemployment, and experiences the horrors of September 11, 2001, hearing that her friend’s father has died in New York City. Georgia also tries to find her own way as a musician, although her mother, Francie, can’t understand why. As …

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Family Tree #3: Best Kept Secret, Leah Christopher Dec 2018

Family Tree #3: Best Kept Secret, Leah Christopher

Children's Book and Media Review

Francie lives in a safe neighborhood in New Jersey in the 1980s, but her experience with a potential kidnapper causes her to become fearful and paranoid. She feels guilty when a peer goes missing, believing it could have been Francie herself who met the same fate. Then Francie discovers her parents will be divorced, and she tries to distract herself by becoming the perfect daughter, friend, and student. Francie also experiences from a distance the troubled relationship between her mother, Dana, and grandmother, Abby, who both starred in the previous two books in the series. Growing up is not easy, …

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Factory Girl, Taylor Nelson Dec 2018

Factory Girl, Taylor Nelson

Children's Book and Media Review

Roshen, a sixteen-year-old Uyghar girl, has been selected to work in a factory for a year in the south of China. Her family's farm is at stake, and she is told that it is a wonderful opportunity that will help her future career. However, she is faced with the ugly truth upon arrival: work conditions are horrific and Uyghar workers are discriminated against. She is forced to stop wearing her Muslim headdress, served food that is against her religious beliefs, lied to about pay, and isolated from everyone and everything outside of the factory. Forced to do horrific things to …

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Elmer And The Race, Kaley Durney Dec 2018

Elmer And The Race, Kaley Durney

Children's Book and Media Review

The noisy young elephants want to know who is the fastest, so Elmer and Wilbur help set up a race course. The young elephants paint themselves different colors so they can keep track of who is where on the race course. The elephants are ready for the race and off they go! They have to cross the river and get past the tricky monkeys. Then they have to go over a hill and Yellow is in the lead. Green tries to pass, but Yellow trips him and he gets hurt. White stays to help him and Yellow tries to trip …

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