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 […]

2018 Mid-Year Check In (incl. Mid-Year Freakout Book Tag)

3 July 2018 / meme, thoughts / 0 Comments
2018 Mid-Year Check In (incl. Mid-Year Freakout Book Tag)

Time for my 2018 mid-year check in! Before I get started…What’s up with ya’ll posting mid-year stuff throughout June? I accept only one date as ‘mid-year’ and refuse to post any recaps before then. 🤣 Anyway, in this post I’ll take […]

June 2018 Month in Review

1 July 2018 / month in review / 0 Comments
June 2018 Month in Review

Well, June just flew by! Work was busy, as I did a lot of planning and promotion for the library’s summer programming as well as running three days of Maker Week activities (immensely successfully, in part due to rainy weahter), […]

Remaining Cybils 2017 Middle Grade Speculative Fiction Finalists

29 June 2018 / brief reviews / 0 Comments
Remaining Cybils 2017 Middle Grade Speculative Fiction Finalists

In this post, I’m sharing some brief thoughts on the Cybils 2017 middle grade speculative fiction finalists that I haven’t yet reviewed. I have already reviewed: The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart by Stephanie Burgis Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh A Properly Unhaunted […]

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 […]