Tag: MG
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Book Review: The House at the Edge of Magic
by Amy Sparkes publisher’s synopsis Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. When she steals a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious woman’s purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a huge, higgledy-piggeldy house. Inside she finds a host of magical…
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Book Review: The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
by Daniel Nayeri publisher’s synopsis A new all-ages adventure tale from Printz Medal Winner, Daniel Nayeri This is the tale of an exciting journey along the Silk Road with a young Monk and his newfound guardian, Samir, a larger than life character and the so-called “Seller of Dreams”. The man is a scammer; his biggest…
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Book Review: The Bletchley Ridde
by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin publisher’s synopsis Remember, you are bound by the Official Secrets Act… Summer, 1940. Nineteen-year-old Jakob Novis and his quirky younger sister Lizzie share a love of riddles and puzzles. And now they’re living inside of one. The quarrelsome siblings find themselves amidst one of the greatest secrets of World…
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Book Review: Everything Sad Is Untrue
by Daniel Nayeri publisher’s synopsis At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls “Daniel”) stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny;…
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Book Review: The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry
By Anna Rose Johnson publisher’s synopsis Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse-keepers—and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking… Selena Lucy Landry (named for a ship, as every sailor’s child should be) has…
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Book Review: Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star
by Laura Noakes publisher’s synopsis Cosima Unfortunate has spent all her life at the Home for Unfortunate Girls – a school where any disabled children, or children deemed different, are sent, whether their families want it or not. It is there that she meets her friends – Pearl, Mary and Diya – and they start…
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Book Review: The Winterton Decpetion – Final Word
by Janet Sumner Johnson publisher’s synopsis Hope Smith can’t stand rich people—the dictionary magnate family the Wintertons most of all. Not since she and her twin brother, Gordon, learned that their dad was one. So when Gordon enters the family into the Winterton’s charity spelling bee, Hope wants nothing to do with it. But with…
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Book Review: The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree
by Lucille Abendanon publisher’s synopsis Batavia, Dutch East Indies, 1942. Emmy has the voice of an angel but hasn’t sung a note since a family tragedy. With war looming, her father plans to ship her off to a singing school in England for safety. But all Emmy wants to do is stay in Batavia with…
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Book Review: Myrtle, Means, and Opportunity
by Elizabeth C. Bunce publisher’s synopsis When her governess inherits an estate on a Scottish island, amateur detective Myrtle Hardcastle couldn’t be more excited. Unfortunately, the ancestral castle is both run-down and haunted. Ghostly moans echo in the walls, and there are rumors of a cursed treasure lost on the island—an ancient silver brooch that may have…
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Book Review: Super You! Power of Flight
by Hena Khan and Andrea Menotti publisher’s synopsis You thought you were in for an ordinary summer at science camp – that is, until you sneak into an off-limits area of the Center for Avian Science, get your hand pecked by a weird bird, and suddenly gain the power of flight! Now it’s up to…
Hailey Huntington 