Book Review: Joseph Delaney’s Curse of the Bane
Deep in the catacombs of the cathedral lurks an evil force – the Bane, a creature the Spook has never been able to defeat. So evil the whole county is in danger.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Review: Beverly Cleary’s Beezus and Ramona
The too active and imaginative Ramona makes it hard for her older sister, Beezus, to feel the love.
Book Review: Sarah Prineas’ Lost
It’s the arrogance and certainty of youth that gets Conn banned from the city and sets him down the path to the city of the sorcerer-king and a horrid treachery.
Book Review: Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess’ The Painted Queen
A bust of Queen Nefertiti is stolen, and Amelia is the target of assassins while a brilliant criminal offers his final challenge… and may be unmasked at last.
Book Review: Jill Shalvis’ The Trouble with Mistletoe
It figures that the gorgeous Keane Winters doesn’t remember Willa Davis. Well, she doesn’t have to deal with him either, until she falls for Petunia, his great-aunt’s Siamese.
Book Review: Sharon Creech’s Ruby Holler
“Trouble twins” Dallas and Florida are orphans who have given up believing there is such a thing as a loving home. Not even Tiller and Sairy can make them believe.
Book Review: Tom Franklin’s Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
A friendship torn apart is followed by tragedy when a young girl disappears. One, Larry Ott, never rises above suspicion while the other, Silas Jones, returns to yet another tragedy on the rise.
Book Review: Joseph Delaney’s Revenge of the Witch
The county’s Spook is retiring, but who can take over for Old Gregory. Twenty-nine apprentices have failed, and Thomas Ward is their last hope, the last apprentice.
Book Review: Gillian Shields’ Immortal
Thrust into the unwelcoming and snobbish Wyldcliffe Abbey School for Young Ladies, Evie Johnson is isolated in its oppressive gloom, her only friend a young man who may be hiding his past from her.
Book Review: Aliki’s Quiet in the Garden
A children’s picture about about being Quiet in the Garden and how it allows you to see and hear so much in that not-so-quiet garden.