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Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World — Ashley Herring Blake (ARC Review)

TITLE: Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World AUTHOR: Ashley Herring Blake RELEASES: March 6th, 2018; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers GENRE: Contemporary AGE RANGE: MG SYNOPSIS: When a tornado rips through town, twelve-year-old Ivy Aberdeen’s house is destroyed and her family of five is displaced. Ivy feels invisible and ignored in the aftermath of the storm–and what’s worse, her notebook filled with secret drawings of girls holding hands has gone missing. Mysteriously, Ivy’s drawings begin to reappear in her locker with notes from someone...

The Sea of Monsters – Rick Riordan

TITLE: The Sea of Monsters AUTHOR: Rick Riordan SERIES: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2 RELEASED: April 1st, 2006; Disney-Hyperion GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: MG SYNOPSIS: The heroic son of Poseidon makes an action-packed comeback in the second must-read installment of Rick Riordan’s amazing young readers series. Starring Percy Jackson, a “half blood” whose mother is human and whose father is the God of the Sea, Riordan’s series combines cliffhanger adventure and Greek mythology lessons that results in true page-turners that get better with...

The Dollmaker of Krakow – R. M. Romero

TITLE: The Dollmaker of Krakow AUTHOR: Romero, R. M. RELEASED: September 17th, 2017; Delacorte Press GENRE: Fantasy/Historical Fiction AGE RANGE: MG SYNOPSIS: In the land of dolls, there is magic. In the land of humans, there is war. Everywhere there is pain. But together there is hope. Karolina is a living doll whose king and queen have been overthrown. But when a strange wind spirits her away from the Land of the Dolls, she finds herself in Krakow, Poland, in the company of the Dollmaker, a...

T10T: Books I Want My Son to Read

This is a weekly tag hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, and this week’s challenge is Top Ten Books I Want My Future Children to Read. Since I already have a wonderful kiddo, I thought I’d share with you some of the books I’m hoping he’ll love as he gets older! Click the book covers for links to the book’s Goodreads listing, or the fanart pictures for links to the artist’s page! 1. This is obviously a given. Most parents...

T10T: Ten Books I Loved in Middle/High School

This is a weekly tag hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, and this week’s challenge is a Back to School freebie! I decided to highlight ten books that I loved in my middle and high school years. Some of the books that I loved then are still favorites of mine, like the Harry Potter and Hunger Games series, so I’m not going to include those, otherwise it would fill all ten spots, and then where would we be?! 1. the beasties –...

The Lightning Thief — Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson has always felt kind of... different. He has ADHD and dyslexia, struggles to fit in, and keeps finding himself kicked out of school. When he is admitted to his sixth school in six years, things seem to finally be working out for Percy, until a field trip goes awry and he kills (disintegrates?) his pre-algebra teacher.

Percy's mother, in a panic, sends Percy to Camp Half-Blood: a summer camp for kids like Percy, who are demi-gods, born to one mortal parent and one god parent. He finally begins to realize why things have never worked out for him like other, normal kids, but the wild adventure is only getting started.

Lumberjanes, Volume 3: A Terrible Plan — Noelle Stevenson

In volume 3 of Lumberjanes, we start off with the girls' attempts to earn their If You Got It, Haunt It badge, complete with the stereotypical circle-around-the-campfire-and-tell-ghost-stories plot, flashlights and all. After their night of terror, the Lumberjanes have a well-deserved day off; naturally, though, no day can go as planned with the Roanoke crew. Molly and Mal have a date - er, picnic that goes horribly awry while the rest of our beloved Lumberjanes manage to turn the most boring day ever into... you guessed it, a disaster.