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STAR WARS: JEDI ACADEMY, RETURN OF THE PADAWAN – Jeffrey Brown
How do you hook early readers who are raised in a culture of social media and at-your-finger-tips-videos? You hook them with books such as this, Jedi Academy: Return of the Padawan. Roan is in his second year of Jedi training and young Roan deals with everything that the average middle schooler has to deal with… Continue reading
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METEOR MEN – graphic novel
It is books like Meteor Men that have restored my faith in the graphic novel as a literary form. This book is beautiful to look at and delightful to read. To me, this is precisely what the graphic novel medium is intended to be. I know that the bulk of the graphic novels out there… Continue reading
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DINOTOPIA: FIRST FLIGHT: 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION – James Gurney
THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A REISSUE A number of years back (I’m not sure precisely when) I reviewed this book on Goodreads — not the 20th Anniversary Edition, but the original edition. At the time, as a bookseller, I was very impressed with the Dinotopia series of books and recommended them often. However, this particular book… Continue reading
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DIVIDED – Elsie Chapman
Divided, by Elsie Chapman, is the second book in a YA series. I have not read book one (Dualed), though a sampler was provided by the publisher, through NetGalley, which did give me a little taste of what the series would be about. What we have is a future/alternate world in which a community is… Continue reading
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SHIFT series (SHIFT; CONTROL; DELETE) – Kim Curran
SHIFT I’m glad I just received the third book in the series, to prompt me to go back and read the first book. This was an awesome, exciting ride! Shift is about sixteen year old Scott Tyler, an average high school student living the typical teenager life of school and friends and girls and a… Continue reading
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CRATER TRUEBLOOD AND THE LUNAR RESCUE COMPANY – Homer Hickam
**WARNING — POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD — SPOILER ALERT ** It’s one hundred years in the future and a wealthy family owns a mine on the moon. The daughter of the family, Maria Medaris, is kidnapped by a group bent on destroying the Earth and taking over the moon. Maria is offered a high position… Continue reading
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SPRING’S FALL – Harambee Grey-Sun
I wouldn’t normally request a book of poetry, but the descriptions of it (“a concept album in musical words” and “an experiment” and even “possibly a mistake”) had me thinking that this was going to be poetry of a sort not found in the typical chapbooks. I thought that this would be a book of… Continue reading
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A DARK INHERITANCE – Chris d’Lacey
Science fiction, mystery, paranormal activity, alternate realities, action/adventure. A Dark Inheritance by Chris d’Lacey has a little bit of everything! Author d’Lacey drops the reader right in to the story without a lot of set-up, which I’ve always found to be a thrilling way to start a book. We, the reader, get to learn and… Continue reading
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SOME FINE DAY – Kat Ross
**WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD** Not too long ago I posted a video preview for this book. The preview really captured my attention and I was eager to get in to this book. Dystopian futures are all the rage in sci-fi/fantasy right now, it seems, and Kat Ross’s book plays with the same theme. In… Continue reading
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EKHO: EVIL KID HUNTING ORGANIZATION – Marie D. Jones & Max Jones
Bullying in schools is a hot-button topic these days so it is not surprising that we will see a number of books targeting the bullying topic. EKHO: Evil Kid Hunting Organization, is one of the latest, using a spy genre style to entice the younger readers. The story is relatively simple…a group of fourth graders,… Continue reading
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SKRAELINGS: CLASHES IN THE OLD ARCTIC – Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley & Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley
Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley have found a clever, fun way to tell a story that engages, informs, and entertains. Using a modern-day narrator to tell the story of an ancient land and time, the Qitsualik-Tinsley writing duo have managed to create a remarkably accurate representation of the old oral story-telling tradition, but recreated it… Continue reading
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DEEP BLUE – Jennifer Donnelly
It’s a little surprising, when I think back on it, but with as much fantasy as I have read over the years, I can’t recall a single book that has dealt with mermaids. With our planet being nearly three-quarters water surface, and our oceans being largely unexplored, it would seem to me that fantasy stories… Continue reading
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