Category: review

Pepper’s Rules for Secret Sleuthing [MG Review]

9 January 2022 / review / 3 Comments
Pepper’s Rules for Secret Sleuthing [MG Review]

Pepper’s Rules for Secret Sleuthing by Briana McDonald Source: Hardcover/libraryPublished: Sept. 2020Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersLength: 240 pages Genre: MysteryTarget Age: Middle grade (suitable for 9+) Review ✍🏻 Pepper considers herself an amateur detective – she strives to follow the rulebook […]

Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff [MG Review]

9 May 2021 / review / 5 Comments
Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff [MG Review]

Too Bright to Seeby Kyle LukoffSource: ebook/NetgalleyPublished: 20 Apr. 2021Publisher: Dial Books (PRH)Length: 192 pages Genre: ContemporaryTarget Age: 8+#OwnVoices: Trans boy Summary 💬 It’s the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug’s best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use […]

All You Knead is Love by Tanya Guerrero [MG Review]

16 March 2021 / review / 5 Comments
All You Knead is Love by Tanya Guerrero [MG Review]

All You Knead is Loveby Tanya GuerreroSource: ebook/NetgalleyPublished: 30 Mar.Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (Macmillan)Length: 384 pages Genre: ContemporaryTarget Age: 9+#OwnVoices: Filipino Spanish representationI received a free copy from the publisher via NetGalley. Summary 💬 Twelve-year-old Alba doesn’t want to live with her estranged […]

The Liar’s Dictionary: An Unusual Work of Literary Fiction [Review]

7 February 2021 / review / 13 Comments
The Liar’s Dictionary: An Unusual Work of Literary Fiction [Review]

I received a free copy for review from the publisher via NetGalley. The Liar’s Dictionaryby Eley WilliamsSource: ebook/NetGalleyPublished: 5 Jan. 2021Publisher: Knopf Canada (PRH Canada)Length: 288 pages Genre: Historical/ contemporary fictionTarget Age: Adult (suitable for 16+)#OwnVoices: wlw Summary 💬 Peter Winceworth is a lexicographer […]

The Appeal of Morrigan Crow and Nevermoor [MG Review]

5 January 2021 / review / 14 Comments
The Appeal of Morrigan Crow and Nevermoor [MG Review]

Preamble This post sat in my drafts for just over a year. Cybils judging introduced me to Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow in January 2019. I had heard some buzz around the book prior to that. I thought it […]