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The Deep & Dark Blue: A Magical Coming Out Tale [MG Review]

9 July 2020 / review / 1 Comment
The Deep & Dark Blue: A Magical Coming Out Tale [MG Review]

The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki SmithFormat/source: Hardcover/ LibraryPublished: January 2020Publisher: Little, BrownLength: 256 pages Genre: FantasyTarget Age: 8+ After a terrible political coup usurps their noble house, Hawke and Grayson flee to stay alive and assume new identities, Hanna and Grayce. Desperation and chance lead them to the Communion of Blue, an order of magical women who spin the threads of reality to their will. As the twins learn more about the Communion, and […]

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Contemporary Feminism in Middle School: Dress Coded and Maybe He Just Likes You [MG Reviews]

5 July 2020 / review / 2 Comments
Contemporary Feminism in Middle School: Dress Coded and Maybe He Just Likes You [MG Reviews]

Dress Coded by Carrie FirestoneFormat/source: ebook/NetGalleyPublished: 7 July 2020Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers (Penguin Random House)Length: 320 pages Genre: ContemporaryTarget Age: 10+ Molly Frost is FED UP… Because Olivia was yelled at for wearing a tank top when she had to keep her sweatshirt wrapped around her waist. Because Liza got dress coded and Molly didn’t, even though they were wearing the exact same outfit. Because when Jessica was pulled over by the principal and […]

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Pet: A Unique and Important Reading Experience [YA Review]

3 July 2020 / review / 12 Comments
Pet: A Unique and Important Reading Experience [YA Review]

There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. But when she meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colours and claws, who emerges from one of her mother’s paintings and a drop of Jam’s blood, she must reconsider what she’s been […]

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My First Robin Hood Retelling [Review]

26 June 2020 / review / 10 Comments
My First Robin Hood Retelling [Review]

Robin is an apprentice forester in the woods of Nottingham. The arrows he makes and sells earn barely enough extra coin to retain the title to his father’s small lands. The sheriff of Nottingham’s jealousy toward Robin’s father is just as fierce towards his son, and the sheriff’s men take every opportunity to harass the young woodsman. But when Robin defends himself by accidentally killing one of the sheriff’s men, […]

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The Binding: Not as Magical As I’d Hoped [Wyrd & Wonder Review]

29 May 2020 / review / 8 Comments
The Binding: Not as Magical As I’d Hoped [Wyrd & Wonder Review]

Books are dangerous things in Collins’s alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. It’s a world in which people visit book binders to rid themselves of painful or treacherous memories. Once their stories have been told and are bound between the pages of a book, the slate is wiped clean and their memories lose the power to hurt or haunt them. After having suffered some sort of mental […]

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