Book Review: Sara C. Snider’s The Thirteenth Tower
It’s an unexpected parade of all sorts that pulls Emelyn out of the Mansell yard, everyone skipping and gadding along following a fiddler playing a twisted branch.
Category: Middle-Grade readers
Book Review: Eoin Colfer’s The Hangman’s Revolution
FBI Agent Chevie Savano slips back and forth in time saving and escaping, as she saves Europe from the infamous Colonel Clayton Box and his Boxites
Book Review: Jennifer L. Holm’s The Fourteenth Goldfish
With a light touch and plenty of humor, Jennifer Holm celebrates the wonder of science with fascinating questions about life and death, family and friendship, immortality…and possibility.
Book Review: R.L. Stine’s Zombie Halloween
Convinced something is wrong with the new neighbors, Kenny and his friends investigate…definitely the wrong choice around Halloween.
Book Review: Iain Reading’s Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold
One part travel, one part history, and five parts adventure, Kitty Hawk is an intrepid teenage pilot with her own De Havilland Beaver seaplane and a nose for mystery and intrigue.
Book Review: Karen Foxlee’s Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy
Science is all for Ophelia Jane Worthington-Whittard until her father gets a job in a strange museum where Ophelia discovers a boy locked away, a prisoner of the Snow Queen.
Book Review: Rick Riordan’s
Annabeth and Percy must survive the Underworld while their friends find the mortal side of those Doors of Death, then seal the Doors on both sides, trapping Annabeth and Percy inside.
Book Review: John Flanagan’s The Royal Ranger
A tragedy destroyed Will’s life, and he will punish those responsible – even if he must leave the Ranger Corps. It’s Halt who forces an apprentice on Will, one he can’t refuse.
Book Review: Patti Wheeler & Keith Hemstreet’s Botswana
On safari in Botswana, Gannon and Wyatt rescue a lioness and her cubs from a poacher, discovering the dangerous animals are not the elephants, rhinos, cape buffalos, leopards, and lions.
Book Review: Soman Chainani’s The School for Good and Evil
For two hundred years, a pair of students are kidnapped, and the good Sophie and villainous Agatha, best friends, are the latest to discover where all the lost children go. It’s a reversal of their expectations with Sophie forced to learn Uglification, Death Curses, and Henchmen Training while Agatha is pushed into classes in Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication. Is it a mistake or is it the first clue?