Tag: standalone
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Book Review: Wither and Bloom
publisher’s synopsis LOVE IS A CHOICE A diverse collection of flash fiction, short stories, and poetry, Wither and Bloom explores the choice to love through trials and storms in all seasons of lifeโfrom new loves, lives built together, and long-lasting romances, to platonic love between family, friends, and strangers. Within these pages, you’ll be swept…
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Book Review: Wonder
by R. J. Palacio publisher’s synopsis ย I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.ย August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an…
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Book Review: The Winter King
by Christine Cohen publisher’s synopsis A village trapped in winter, a tyrannical god, and a girl who will do anything to keep her family alive… Ever since Cora’s father disappeared through the ice, whispers about her family’s “curse” have grown increasingly louder. Desperate to help her mother and siblings survive another bleak season in the…
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Book Review: Hope in the Valley
by Mitali Perkins publisher’s synopsis Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul doesn’t like change. She’s not ready to start middle school and leave the comforts of childhood behind. Most of all, Pandita doesn’t want to feel like she’s leaving her mother, who died a few years ago, behind. After a falling out with her best friend, Pandita…
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Book Review: Our Divine Mischief
by Hanna C. Howard publisher’s synopsis The Goddess Trial is designed to push young people to their edge and mark their coming of age, but รila LacInis is ready for whatever it brings. She sets sail from her small fishing village to the island of the goddess Yslet, fully expecting a divine encounter, but what…
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Book Review: Unearth the Tides
by Allisa J. Zavalianos publisher’s synopsis ๐๐๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ก ๐๐๐ค๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ Huxley Krew Gannon III always knew he would be a royal guard; defending the Crown is in his blood. And coming from a long line of Gannons, that means the job is to be taken seriously at all costs. When…
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Book Review: Sky of Seven Colors
by Rachelle Nelson publisher’s synopsis In a strange part of the forest, the divide between worlds grows thin. After the accident, Meg would do anything to wake her best friend from his deadly coma. At least, thatโs what she whispered into the woodland shadows. She never imagined her wish would trap her in a gray…
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Book Review: A Duet for Home
by Karina Yan Glaser publisher’s synopsis It’s Juneโs first day at Huey House, and as if losing her home werenโt enough, she also canโt bring her cherished viola inside. Before the accident last year, her dad saved tip money for a year to buy her viola, and sheโs not about to give it up now.…
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Book Review: A Place to Hang the Moon
by Kate Albus publisher’s synopsis It is 1940 and William, 12, Edmund, 11, and Anna, 9, aren’t terribly upset by the death of the not-so-grandmotherly grandmother who has taken care of them since their parents died. But the children do need a guardian, and in the dark days of World War II London, those are…
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Book Review: I Must Betray You
by Ruta Sepetys publisher’s synopsis Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians arenโt free to dream; they are bound by rules and force. Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauศescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police…
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