“I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read That Yet” Results [NF and MG Reviews]
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Reviews of the winners of September and October’s vote – The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller (non-fiction) and Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge (middle grade fiction)
Tag: middle grade
An Enchanting English Timeslip Tale [MG Review]
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Measles mean Tom has been sent to stay with an aunt and uncle who live in a converted flat of an old house without a garden. When a grandfather clock strikes thirteen in the middle of the night, Tom creeps outside to discover a grand and expansive daytime Victorian garden, in place of parked cars and rubbish bins…
Beatrix Potter Has Never Been More Terrifying [MG Review]
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I read Scary Stories for Young Foxes over two days in late October. As an autumn read, the book delighted me. The stories offer some properly frightening, chills inducing scenes. If I described each story individually, they might sound like monster-of-the-week. But the progression of Mia and Uly’s journeys keeps them more interesting than that…
“I Can’t Believe I Haven’t Read That Yet” #10 (Help Me Choose!)
Septembers’s Result – The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller I have been putting off this post because I’ve had The Book Whisperer on hold for almost two months – and it still hasn’t become available! So my thoughts on it will have to wait, but the voting continues. November’s Selection October’s theme is middle grade fiction that’s been languishing on my TBR. I sorted my to-read-middle-grade shelf by date added, […]
Cybils 2018 Finalists: Sweep and Stone Girl [Review]
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Yup, I’m finally clearing this post out of my drafts… Sweep by Jonathan Auxier For nearly a century, Victorian London relied on “climbing boys”–orphans owned by chimney sweeps–to clean flues and protect homes from fire. The work was hard, thankless and brutally dangerous. Eleven-year-old Nan Sparrow is quite possibly the best climber who ever lived–and a girl. With her wits and will, she’s managed to beat the deadly odds time […]