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WILL IN SCARLET – Matthew Cody

Thirteen year old Will Shackley is the son of a lord. But his father is fighting in the crusades with King Richard the Lionheart and his home becomes a site for a local power struggle. Young Will is no match for those uprooting the communities and so he flees into the nearby Sherwood Forest where Continue reading
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THE VIKINGS – Martyn Whittock & Hannah Whittock

Although this book is subtitled “From Odin to Christ” and is ostensibly a book about the ‘Christianizing’ of Scandinavia, the truth is that this is a really phenomenal, brief history of the ‘Vikings.’ I put a quote around ‘Vikings’ because, as the Whittocks explain, ‘Viking’ is something you did (you went viking) and not something Continue reading
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WHY THE MONSTER – Sean and Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley
Why the Monster is an absolutely phenomenal book. Sean and Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley have written a book for young readers that captures the mythology or legend of the Inuit people and also understands the concerns and fears of a child – being preyed upon by bullies, being uncomfortable trying to live up to an adults expectations, Continue reading
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9 FROM NINE WORLDS – Rick Riordan
How do you appeal to the younger (late elementary/middle school) readers? You give them a popular series with some recognizable characters and you add some crude humor (“Thor was letting out farts like a sputtering engine.”). This book is nine short stories told from the point of view of different characters. We start with Asgard: Continue reading
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THOSE WHO RUN IN THE SKY – Aviaq Johnston
Aviaq Johnston’s Those Who Run the Sky is an exciting, coming-of-age story that should be read by every fifth-grader on the North American continent. Pitu is a young Inuit boy. He is out hunting when a storm hits and he becomes lost, without his dogs or weapons, and the strange storm takes him to a Continue reading
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EAST OF WEST, THE APOCALYPSE: YEAR TWO – graphic novel
Just … wow. If there is such a thing as the perfect graphic novel, this would be it for me. Set in a present-day dystopian alternate United States, this ambitious epic presumes that the U.S. Civil War never really ended and there was constant contention between various factions – until a comet hit the center Continue reading
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THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE – Katherine Arden
I don’t normally talk about a cover, but let’s face it … this cover art is beautiful. What it suggests is a lyrical fairy tale, and that’s precisely what we get with the story inside. Author Katherine Arden (whose very name conjures up fairy tale princesses) has written a Russian fairy tale, drawing on her Continue reading
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THE WOKEN GODS – Gwenda Bond
The bandwagon is moving on. Gwenda Bond’s The Woken Gods is a YA novel that fits right into the ‘this is what everyone’s reading’ category. Ancient gods rising/waking and causing havoc and just might bring about the end of everything. This could be the description of an eighth of all the YA books that have Continue reading
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THE RED MAGICIAN – Lisa Goldstein
THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A REISSUE In a small European village, a young girl named Kicsi observes how a town is forced into the modern world and forced to see the hatred in the world. A strange magician, by the name of Voros comes to town. Kicsi is fascinated by this man, a man who claims Continue reading

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