synopsis.Spend a lazy crafternoon with your friends. From pretty school supplies to colorful tech accessoriest to perfect party decor, Lazy Crafternoon guides tween crafters through simple stesp to create amazing projects.For ages 9-13.(Good Reads) my thoughts.This is a fun little book that would be perfect for the young crafter. The age recommendation of 9-13 years is …
Book Review | City of Bones
synopsis.When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible …
Book Review | Three Dark Crowns
synopsis.In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born: three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic. Mirabella is a fierce elemental, able to spark hungry flames or vicious storms at the snap of her fingers. Katharine is a poisoner, one who can …
Book Review | The Reader
Synopsis.Hunted, shot, and without her memory, eighteen-year-old Ann Baker wakes in shallow water on a deserted Pacific Northwest island. She is soon approached by two young men claiming to be her friends. Something isn’t right, but when gunshots sound, Ann is left with little choice but to allow Devon and Archer to help her escape. …
Book Review | The Edge of Everything
Synopsis (NetGalley)Every day, Zoe struggles to keep going. The cruel winter took her father’s life and left her angry and brokenhearted. As she carries her little brother through a snowstorm that could kill him in minutes, her only thought is finding shelter. The cabin beyond the woods is far from the place of safety she …
Book Review | Initiate
synopsis (good reads).The only home Riga Garrison has ever known is the Tunnel, a subterranean research facility buried deep beneath Antarctica’s ice and snow. Yet, while a safe haven for the last outpost of humanity governed by the Initiate, it is also home to a secret so dark that they will risk anything to protect it.Surrounded …
Book Review | Stealing Snow
I received an ebook of Stealing Snow via Netgalley for a fair and honest review. Thank you to the author, Danielle Paige, and the publisher, Bloomsbury Childrens for the opportunity to preview this book.Snow is a seventeen-year old girl who’s spent most of her life living within the confines of the Whittaker Institute - a …
Book Review | The Ferryman Institute
I received a copy of The Ferryman Institute by Colin Gigl from Netgalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.Charlie Dawson is the best Ferryman the Ferryman Institute has on call - he’s helped people cross from life to death and the afterlife for over two-hundred and fifty years. Despite his innate ability to …
Book Review | Children of Icarus
Children of Icarus, by Caighlan Smith, is not for the faint of heart.I was fortunate enough to read a copy of Children of Icarus provided by the publisher on NetGalley and going into the book I will admit that I really didn’t know much about it. The description for the book doesn’t give much away, except …
Book Review | The Fearless Travelers’ Guide to Wicked Places
I know quite a few middle grade readers who would love The Fearless Travelers’ Guide to Wicked Places by Pete Belger.The book starts off with twelve-year old Nell Perkins observing a strange, bruise-coloured cloud that has appeared over her home town of Mist Falls, preceding the disappearance of a group of mothers. Nell is aware …
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