Book Review: Ridley Pearson’s Disney in Shadow
The teens -Finn, Philby, Willa, Charlene, and Maybeck – search for Wayne, their mentor and head Imagineer who has mysteriously gone missing, abducted by the Overtakers.
The teens -Finn, Philby, Willa, Charlene, and Maybeck – search for Wayne, their mentor and head Imagineer who has mysteriously gone missing, abducted by the Overtakers.
John Taylor is marrying the love of his life, Suzie Shooter. But before he can walk down the aisle he has one more case to solve as a private eye — a case that has him on the run from friends and enemies both, with his bride-to-be looking to collect the bounty on his head…
Welcome to the Nightside where the sun never rises and people can fraternize with every myth and monster imaginable. John Taylor is a P.I. and “The Unnatural Inquirer” has offered him a million pounds to find a DVD purported to contain an actual recording of the afterlife.
High school can be a battlefield, but for Lily Parker, surviving at St. Sophia’s School for Girls is a matter of life and death…
My name – my True Name – is Ashallayn’ darkmyr Tallyn. I am the last remaining son of Mab, Queen of the Unseelie Court. And I am dead to her. My fall began, as many stories do, with a girl…
Lady Luck has hired John Taylor to investigate the origins of the Nightside. But when he starts to uncover facts about his long-vanished mother, the Nightside–and all of existence– could be snuffed out.
Everyone in Aoife Grayson’s family goes mad when they turn 16. Now a ward of the state at the School of Engines, Aoife tries to pretend her fate can be different.
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library The Summer of the Swansby Betsy Byars fiction in Hardcover edition that was published by Viking Books For Young Readers on March 30, 1970 and has 142 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon A standalone fictional novel for young adults revolving around fourteen-year-old Sara, just hitting puberty with all the angst of it. In 1971, The Summer of the Swans won the Newbery Medal. My Take Puberty is hitting Sara hard, and Byars is absolutely brilliant in her depiction of the angst and drama of a young teen with the frustrations about her father and her impatience with her little brother — this rings so true of sibling relationships! Her intense sense of right and wrong as well as her desire to protect along with that so-very-thin skin. It’s the mid-1960s, and in just a few pages, Byars gives us a quick peek into a few days of the Godfrey family’s life with the focus primarily on Sara, and then Charlie, providing us with a lifetime of information […]
The fun and games ends when Gwen learns the truth behind her mother’s death that night. It’s one way to start winter break. Knowing that everyone around you was lying.
Meg’s father has mysteriously disappeared. Now Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace must rescue him and outwit the forces of evil they will encounter on their journey through space.