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See Fred Run, Rachel Wadham Dec 2018

See Fred Run, Rachel Wadham

Children's Book and Media Review

Fred realizes that he's in a book, and after the book says something, it happens to him and Ed. He doesn't mind until the book makes him walk into a tree and wear a chicken suit. He then refuses to participate when told to run. So the book's pages put him in a jungle next to some hungry lions. See Fred run!

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See Fred Run, Ariel Woodbury Dec 2018

See Fred Run, Ariel Woodbury

Children's Book and Media Review

Fred and Ed are under the complete control of the reader. This works out great for Ed, who gets a bike and a cowboy hat. Fred, on the other hand, walks into a tree and gets a chicken suit. Then Fred decides to stop playing along, and he and the reader struggle for control. When Fred won't jump as he's told to, he is transported into a jungle with hungry tigers (still in his chicken suit). Fred leaves the book until the reader promises no more tigers or chickens suits. So he comes back...and gets to wear funny underpants instead.

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Scary Tales: The One-Eyed Doll, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

Scary Tales: The One-Eyed Doll, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Malik is mostly responsible for his little sister, Tiana, because their mother works during the day and their father works through the night. He doesn't mind most of the time, but sometimes a guy likes his own space. One day while playing near the haunted house just two doors from their home, Tiana disappears. He starts looking for her and calling her name and finds her in the backyard of the creepy old house. She has dug up the edge of a box inscribed with strange text. Like a good big brother, he opens the box for her, and within …

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Salt, Kylee Vidmar-Hackney Dec 2018

Salt, Kylee Vidmar-Hackney

Children's Book and Media Review

Awikwa and James are twelve-year-old boys that spend their days hunting, fishing, and exploring in the nearby forests. Their lives are suddenly changed and their friendship is at risk when the War of 1812 makes it way to their small and remote Indiana Territory. They begin to question their loyalty when the Native American and British allies prepare to meet in Fort Wayne to battle the American soldiers. However, as people become divided, these two boys keep alive a deep friendship that war itself cannot tear apart.

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Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Beverly Jones Dec 2018

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Beverly Jones

Children's Book and Media Review

This brightly illustrated book is based on the original television show that captured the hearts of young and old during the world's most beloved holiday. Rudolph is so tired of feeling left out and different with his shiny red nose. So he decides to venture out into the world with Hermey, an elf who would much rather be a dentist. Rudolph and Hermey learn a lot on their journey and they finally find out that it's okay to be different. In a world where everyone seems to be the same, dare to be different!

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Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Caree Campbell Dec 2018

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Caree Campbell

Children's Book and Media Review

Rudolph was born with a unique feature: a red nose. To avoid being different, he tries to hide his shiny trait. Despite his attempts to make friends and join the other reindeer, he goes on a journey to discover who he is. He meets new friends along the way and ends up on an island filled with toys, who like Rudolph have unique features about them. When Rudolph finds himself he is able to help save the day with his nose.

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Roots And Blues: A Celebration, Kylee Vidmar-Hackney Dec 2018

Roots And Blues: A Celebration, Kylee Vidmar-Hackney

Children's Book and Media Review

Arnold Adoff creates a series of poems about the words and feelings behind ‘the blues’. Each of these patterned and well-crafted poems contain carefully worded narratives describing life as an African American during the time of slavery and inequality. Adoff emotionally describes the natural origins to this soulful music found in ‘the shuffle of chains between wrists,’ each chop of the axe, and voices shouting 'amen.' These were the sounds that inspired the blues, ultimately finding refuge from their pain in their music. During a time of grief and suffering, celebration was still found in the rhythm of the roots …

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Projekt 1065, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Projekt 1065, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Michael O'Shaunessey lives in Berlin, Germany with his parents in 1943. His father is the Irish ambassador in the city, and Michael and his mother are undercover spies for the Allied powers. At first, Michael enjoys sneaking around, memorizing locations for the Allies to bomb and keeping secrets from his German schoolmates. Then things start to escalate, and Michael begins to see that war and espionage are not games. For one thing, Michael's only friend, Fritz, seems to have completely bought into Hitler's fanatic vision for Germany to become the largest world power. And for another, Michael is required to …

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Potion Masters: The Eternity Elixir, Tessa Mcmillan Dec 2018

Potion Masters: The Eternity Elixir, Tessa Mcmillan

Children's Book and Media Review

Gordy Stitser and his mother, Wanda, are Elixirists, or potion-makers. While Wanda is out of town, Gordy gets a package with a potion labeled 'Eternity Elixir'. An eccentric woman named Esmerelda attacks the house so she can take the potion. Two Elixirists arrive to fight Esmeralda and her gang. They tell Gordy that the Eternity Elixir can be substituted for any potion ingredient or drastically improve or overpower a potion. In the wrong hands it can become a weapon. Esmeralda takes one of Gordy’s best friends hostage to get the potion from Gordy. Thankfully, Wanda returns and with Gordy’s friends …

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Porcupine's Picnic Who Eats What?, Kaley Durney Dec 2018

Porcupine's Picnic Who Eats What?, Kaley Durney

Children's Book and Media Review

Porcupine has finally found the perfect picnic spot! Now he just needs some friends to eat with him. Many of his friends won’t eat clover, but he finds out what each of his friends like to eat. Giraffe like to eat leaves and buds, while Panda likes to eat bamboo. Bear likes blueberries and Kookaburra likes to eat spiders. Tiger comes along, and he likes to eat all of the animals!

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Pete The Cat And The Cool Cat Boogie, Kaley Durney Dec 2018

Pete The Cat And The Cool Cat Boogie, Kaley Durney

Children's Book and Media Review

Pete loves to dance but, apparently, he is doing it all wrong! After deciding not give up on dancing, he asks his friends how they dance and groove. They teach Pete, but each time, Pete makes a mistake and they tell him that’s not how you dance. Pete feels discouraged, but he never gives up. He meets a wise owl who helps him understand that he doesn’t need to do someone else's dance; he just needs to be himself. Pete then feels so happy because he can dance!

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Pete The Cat And The Bedtime Blues, Kaley Durney Dec 2018

Pete The Cat And The Bedtime Blues, Kaley Durney

Children's Book and Media Review

Pete has had tons of fun in the sun with his friends, but now it's getting late. They decide to have a sleepover so the fun doesn't have to stop. As Pete lays down to fall asleep, he hears a sound. Some of Pete’s friends can't go to sleep and want to play instead. Pete can't sleep through all the talking, so he starts to read to himself. His friends like what he is reading and they all settle down. They are all tired now, and so they go to bed.

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Period 8, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Period 8, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Paulie Baum does pretty well for himself - he gets good grades, is an all-star swimmer, and has a wonderful girlfriend. In his eighth period class, members can talk about whatever they want in a safe place. Led by their understanding and gifted teacher, Mr. Logsdon, no subject is too taboo and no secret will be blabbed. After a classmate goes missing, things start to unravel: Hannah, Paulie's girlfriend, dumps him without a word of understanding, no one seems to know where the missing classmate could be, and the school's ASB president seems to be hiding things. Eventually the missing …

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Parched, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

Parched, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

Sarel has lost her family. The memory of gunshots and fire haunt her. Water is almost non-existent in the city and in the desert, so she decides to leave to look for water somewhere, anywhere. Then a boy named Musa turns up. Musa is scabbed and weak from years of being prisoner to the Tandie, a violent gang, so Sarel decides that she’ll help him. She tells him of her plan to leave. He tells her that he has the ability to hear and find water. They search to no avail. To make matters worse, the Tandie show up. After …

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Overturned, Kenzie Pierce Dec 2018

Overturned, Kenzie Pierce

Children's Book and Media Review

Nikki Tate is the clever daughter of Nathan Tate, a world-renowned poker player who has been wrongly convicted of murder. When Nathan is released, he is determined to discover the identity of the true killer. Meanwhile, Nikki uses her incredible skill at cards in illegal poker games. Nathan is found murdered in an alley, and Nikki becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about his death. As her poker connections and dogged determination lead her deep into the dark underbelly of crime, Nikki must rely on her friends and her street smarts to discover the murderer before she is killed. Despite …

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One Last Word, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

One Last Word, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

One Last Word is a collection of poems from the Harlem Renaissance accompanied by corresponding poems written using the Golden Shovel poetic technique. The poems are from both the past and present. They bring to light injustice, resilience and finding joy in living life while confronting major obstacles. One Last Word is a moving tribute to the great poets of the Harlem Renaissance.

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One Hundred Spaghetti Strings, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

One Hundred Spaghetti Strings, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

Steffy doesn’t know who she’s supposed to be or where she belongs. In the midst of all this inner turmoil, Steffy's teacher wants her to write an autobiography and get letters from others in her life on their perception of her. Everything seems to be falling apart, except cooking. Steffy decides to try out for a children’s cooking competition, and when she makes it, it seems that everything might be coming back together. But alas, everything doesn’t end up as perfectly as a well-cooked meal. But when her aunt and husband decide to adopt her and her sister, Steffy realizes …

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On The Night You Were Born, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

On The Night You Were Born, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

What happens the night that a baby is born? The moon smiles and the wind whispers the babe’s name. Bears dance, geese fly, and ladybugs stay around to say hello. Heaven rejoices when a child enters the world. But why, one might ask, all this celebration for just a baby? Because, when a baby is born, the world gains someone special – someone not quite the same as anyone else. The world is excited to see what that child is going to bring to it.

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Old English Sheepdogs, Megan Hall Dec 2018

Old English Sheepdogs, Megan Hall

Children's Book and Media Review

The Old English sheepdog was originally bred to herd livestock, but also makes a fun, furry companion. These dogs have a happy temperament and lots of energy. Old English sheepdogs have a double coat; the top layer is waterproof! These beautiful coats require grooming every one to two days. With proper care, Old English sheepdogs can be loving companions for ten to twelve years.

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Ocd Love Story, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Ocd Love Story, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Bea has always had a concern for certain people - sometimes, when she really likes someone or is interested in them, she gets these compulsions to check on them frequently to make sure they're okay. When her therapist starts throwing around a diagnosis of OCD and recommends group therapy, Bea gets nervous. Then she meets Beck, a guy who also has OCD but is sweet and tries his best to be normal. Together, Bea and Beck try to help each other overcome their compulsions and end up feeling more comfortable and strong together than when they're alone. There is OCD …

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Not So Different- What You Really Want To Ask About Having A Disability, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

Not So Different- What You Really Want To Ask About Having A Disability, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

Shane Burcaw is a twenty-five-year-old young man with SMA, spinal muscular atrophy. This means that his muscles are getting smaller and weaker as he grows older, leaving his head bigger in relation to his body, and making him reliant on his family for help to meet his basic needs. This book explains how Shane lives with SMA and that he’s not as different as people might think.

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No Fair! No Fair: And Other Jolly Poems Of Childhood, Kathryn Page Dec 2018

No Fair! No Fair: And Other Jolly Poems Of Childhood, Kathryn Page

Children's Book and Media Review

These short poems are all about childhood and growing up. No Fair No Fair shares poems about learning how to tie shoes, the different students in the classroom, eating, family, school complaints, and much more. These poems will have the reader laughing and thinking back on their own childhood, and the children will find it fun to relate so much with their own lives.

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Night Of The Living Zombie Bugs, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

Night Of The Living Zombie Bugs, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Rumor in the woods is that zombies are real and that they are about to attack! Once Slingshot manages to awaken Speed Bump, they set off to find the truth of the matter with a mouse who burps and an owl who doesn't believe any of it. They find the source of the rumor, and she says that zombies are real and that she, herself, has seen them! She even has a map to the dreaded location where they will arise again this very night! The brave (or foolish) adventurers fly off and land in the middle of the frightful …

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Morris Mole, Melissa Secor Dec 2018

Morris Mole, Melissa Secor

Children's Book and Media Review

Morris lives in the ground with all of his older brothers. He is the smallest mole, and he always does what his brothers do: dig all day and all night. Then one day, the moles run out of food. Morris has an idea, but he is too small and his brothers can’t hear him. So he decides to dig down inside himself and find all of his bravery. Then he does what his brothers have never been done before- he digs up! The world is full of light, friends, and so much food. He meets friends whom he helps save …

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Moo Moo In A Tutu, Bethany Stevens Dec 2018

Moo Moo In A Tutu, Bethany Stevens

Children's Book and Media Review

Moo Moo decides she is going to be a ballerina. Her loyal friend Mr. Quackers is worried, given that she’s never taken ballet lessons, but supportive nonetheless. Determined to share her talents with the world, Moo Moo both figuratively and literally crashes a ballet recital. Reception is less than warm from all but Mr. Quackers, who cheers enthusiastically for his friend. Although Moo Moo's plan to become a ballerina doesn't turn out as expected, her confidence remains undaunted. This fun book ends with Moo Moo plotting a new plan that the two pals can both participate in, setting up nicely …

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Mogie: The Heart Of The House, Nikki-Catrina Anderson Dec 2018

Mogie: The Heart Of The House, Nikki-Catrina Anderson

Children's Book and Media Review

Mogie is a ball-chasing, tail-wagging, moon-howling pup with a heart as true as true can be. Mogie comforts young Gage who used to be a ball throwing, race, running back-flipping boy, but has fallen sick and lost his mojo. Knowing just the right ways to comfort Gage in this difficult time, she sticks with him until he finds his mojo and is able to return home. Mogie’s story continues at the Ronald McDonald House where she stays to help the next child who comes sick and in need of a friend.

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Mogie: The Heart Of The House, Melissa Secor Dec 2018

Mogie: The Heart Of The House, Melissa Secor

Children's Book and Media Review

Mogie isn’t cut out to be a service dog. He fails at search-and-rescue and he isn’t calm enough to be a show dog. But when Mogie wanders into a special house in the middle of the city, he finds exactly what he’s meant to do. Mogie has a special talent at finding sick, sad kids and cheering them up by giving them exactly what they need. He makes friends with the sick children in the house, and helps them find their 'mojo.' He chases his ball, runs races, and does backflips- anything to make the children smile. When they don’t …

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Minnie Bow-Bot Robot, Amanda Durrant Dec 2018

Minnie Bow-Bot Robot, Amanda Durrant

Children's Book and Media Review

Minnie has a huge order of bows to make before the honey festival and doesn't know how she will get it all done in time. Daisy saves the day with a bow-making robot named Bow-Bot. Minnie and Daisy push the buttons and Bow-Bot is making the bows in no time. However, she soon runs out of ribbon and starts making bows out of anything she can find, like a chair and the curtains! The remote control breaks as they try to turn Bow-Bot off, but Minnie uses her bow grabber to push the OFF button on Bow-Bot. Minnie repairs the …

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Midnight At The Electric, Meagan Andrus Dec 2018

Midnight At The Electric, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

There are three stories in this book: Adri, the young engineer who is carefully selected to go with a recolonization group to Mars; Catherine, who endures dust storms and hardships in the Kansas Dust Bowl; and Lenore, a young woman living in England in the aftermath of World War I. While Adri is training in Kansas with the US Space Program, she is assigned to live with a distant cousin, Lily. Adri discovers an old diary and letters containing Catherine's and Lenore's stories. She's unsure why she's so captivated by these stories, but they seem to change the way she …

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Max Tilt: Fire The Depts, Tessa Mcmillan Dec 2018

Max Tilt: Fire The Depts, Tessa Mcmillan

Children's Book and Media Review

When Max’s parents leave to start his mother's cancer treatments, Max’s cousin Alex is put in charge. But as soon as Alex arrives, she and Max uncover a mountain of unpaid bills that will lead to eviction. Desperately searching the house for items to sell, Alex and Max find a lost manuscript left by their famous ancestor, Jules Verne. The manuscript reveals that Verne hid treasure for his descendants. Max and Alex team up with a millionaire, Spencer Niemand, to pursue the clues. Niemand double-crosses Max and Alex, but his deception leads the cousins to the Verne’s treasure and the …

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