Book Review
Waiting for the Queen
Deserving of readers’ interest and sympathy, these two girls transform miraculously under the gifted hand of Joanna Higgins. In Joanna Higgins’ first novel for young readers, "Waiting for the Queen", thoughtfully created and dynamic...
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Is This Tomorrow
Complex characters grapple with loneliness in the wake of tragedy in this author’s emotion-driven tenth novel. “She had lied when she told him there were no ghosts. There most certainly were, and they were right here in this room,...
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Feathered
It didn’t take much to convince Jackie that the enchanted faeries and elves of Ireland, known as the Fey People, were real. As soon as she and her older sister Alex got to Dublin to visit their relatives, she heard their singing, which...
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Choose Me
Justina is at a romantic crossroads. Laurina Osborne’s second novel, "Choose Me", follows the twenty-year journey leading up to the collision of circumstances that brings together the three men Justina has loved. She’ll have to make...
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Three Green Rats
The town of Tintown is in trouble, even though the hurrying and scurrying rats who live there don’t seem to notice. For years they have consumed and polluted without thought, and now Tintown, as authors Linda Mason Hunter and Suzanne...
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Latasha and the Kidd on Keys
Latasha Gandy, the precocious, dynamic protagonist of Latasha and the Little Red Tornado, is back in this winning sequel by Michael Scotto. She’s busier than ever with her mom, friends, a new gifted-and-talented program, and of course,...
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Coyote Winds
“We were pioneers in a pickup truck.” In 1929, twelve-year-old Myles Vincent’s family headed out to Vona, Colorado, to an abandoned family homestead. Like so many others, Myles’s father, Lionel, believed that with all the new...
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Prey of the Spirit Bear
Among the picturesque national parks of the American Southwest, an ancient evil force is wreaking havoc. Slaughtered ravens and a possessed bear are only the beginning of this clever adventure by William Hill. After a spiritual moment of...