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The Turnkey of Highgate Cemetery: Not the Ghostly Story I’d Hoped For [Review]

18 July 2018 / review / 0 Comments
The Turnkey of Highgate Cemetery: Not the Ghostly Story I’d Hoped For [Review]

The Turnkey of Highgate Cemetery by Allison Rushby Format/Source: ebook/Netgalley Published: 24 July 2018 Publisher: Candlewick Press Length: 256 pages Genre: Middle grade historical fiction ★★½       Flossie Birdwhistle is the Turnkey at London’s Highgate Cemetery. As Turnkey, it’s Flossie’s job to ensure that all the souls buried in the cemetery stay at rest. Not an easy job for a young ghost, but a task made especially difficult by World […]

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Claire King Writes an Effective 5 Year Old Narrator in The Night Rainbow [Review]

5 July 2018 / review / 0 Comments
Claire King Writes an Effective 5 Year Old Narrator in The Night Rainbow [Review]

The Night Rainbow by Claire King Format/Source: ebook/library Published: April 2013 Publisher: Bloomsbury Length: 224 pages Genre: Contemporary fiction ★★★★  Under the sweltering heat of the summer sun, five-year-old Pea – and her vivid imagination – run wild in the meadows behind her home on the edge of a small village in Southern France. Pea’s father died in an accident, and now she only has her little sister, Margot, for company. […]

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Spirit Hunters is a Properly Chilling Middle Grade Novel [Review]

26 June 2018 / review / 0 Comments
Spirit Hunters is a Properly Chilling Middle Grade Novel [Review]

Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh Series: Spirit Hunters Format/Source: Hardcover/ Library Published: July 2017 Publisher: HarperCollins Length: 288 pages Genre: Middle grade speculative fiction Cybils 2017 finalist  ★★★★½  Spirit Hunters, the first book in an upcoming series, is a classic haunted house tale with a Korean American perspective. (This book is #ownvoices for Korean American representation.) Harper’s family has just moved from an air conditioned apartment in New York to a stuffy old house […]

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3 Picture Books About Child Refugees [Review]

20 June 2018 / review / 0 Comments
3 Picture Books About Child Refugees [Review]

I don’t usually review picture books on my blog, but as I had to write a number of picture book reviews for a course, I’ve decided to share those reviews. These three books were originally noted in my bibliography, 15 Picture Books on the Refugee Experience. Joseph’s Big Ride by Terry Farish and Ken Daley    Joseph’s Big Ride tells a story about a child who is a refugee, but it […]

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Al Capone Throws Me a Curve by Gennifer Choldenko [Review]

19 June 2018 / review / 0 Comments
Al Capone Throws Me a Curve by Gennifer Choldenko [Review]

Al Capone Throws Me a Curve by Gennifer Choldenko Format/Source: Hardcover /Publisher Published: May 2018 Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books Length: 226 pages Genre: Middle grade historical fiction I received a copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. ★★★★  Moose Flanagan lives on a famous island in California: Alcatraz, home to some of the most dangerous prisoners in the United States in the 1930s. It’s the summer before he starts […]

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