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Showing posts with label YA. Show all posts

Thursday, September 1, 2016

August Reading Review

Here's a roundup of all the books I read in August 2016. Which ones have you read?

One Green Omelet, Please!
A fun children's book about discovery and appreciation.



Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids
A memoir chronicling time spent as a K-12 substitute.
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Pasadena
A murder mystery grips a group of high school friends.
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The Velvet Hours
Two stories intertwine to show the power of love.
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I Love You!
A sweet children's story.


The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett
A YA novel that asks the question: do we really know who a person is inside?
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 Private Beach
A graphic novel following Trudy Honeyvan.
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My T-Rex Gets a Bath
A cute bedtime story for children.

Monday, August 30, 2010

The Baby-Sitters Club Mystery #1: Stacey and the Missing Ring

A review of the first book in Ann M. Martin’s extra BSC series.

Since the late 1980’s, Ann M Martin has been feeding the imagination of young girls and boys with her many books. One of the most popular series she created was The Baby-Sitters Club series. This series contains many titles, along with a few well-loved additions and spinoffs of the original series. One of the additions that Martin provided readers was The Baby-Sitters Club Mystery books. These books read much like the books in the original series, but the plot focuses mainly on solving a mystery while babysitting for new and regular clients.

Read more: http://bookstove.com/children/the-baby-sitters-club-mystery-1-stacey-and-the-missing-ring/#ixzz0y7KYxRHh

Monday, July 19, 2010

The Kids in Ms. Coleman's Class #6: Twin Trouble

A review of book six in this classic Ann M. Martin series.

Twin Trouble is book number six in the Ann M. Martin series The Kids in Ms. Colman’s Class. If you are familiar with Ann M. Martin books such as the Baby-Sitters Club, you will instantly recognize the chracters and setting in this story. The Kid’s in Ms. Coleman’s Class series is a spinoff of the Baby-Sitters Club Little Sister series (which is a spinoff of the original Baby-Sitters Club series). In this series Martin gives us a sneak peek into Karen Brewer’s daily activities at school by showing us not what she is up to (she has her own series, after all) but what her classmates are struggling with in school and at home.

Read more: http://bookstove.com/children/the-kids-in-ms-colemans-class-6-twin-trouble/#ixzz0u8RQAeLj