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Category Archives: Teen
Quick Pick Picture Book- The Latke Who Wouldn’t Stop Screaming
You would scream too, wouldn’t you, if you were dropped in sizzling oil to be fried? If everywhere you went others refused to understand you? If you felt as if you didn’t have a proper home? If someone was prepared … Continue reading
Esperanza Rising
Esperanza Rising is the story of a girl who loses everything, her father, her home, her life of luxury and her dreams of the future. When tragedy strikes, Esperanza and her mother find that their only hope is to leave … Continue reading
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Betraying Season
In this follow up to Bewitching Season, Penelope Leland sets off for Ireland to study magic. Just as Bewitching Season is refined and restrained like London society, Betraying Season is much more free and sensual, like the old Celtic magic … Continue reading
Bewitching Season
It’s actually almost a bit embarrassing how much I liked this book. The fact is, I’m a sucker for romantic historical fiction, particularly anything taking place in England in the 1800s. Bewitching Season takes place as Victoria is about to … Continue reading
House of Many Ways
I have to say, I love this nearly as much as Howl’s Moving Castle. Charmain has been brought up to be very respectable but not at all useful. When she goes to watch over her Great-Uncle William’s house her only … Continue reading
Castle in the Air
This book is billed as the second book in the Howl’s Moving Castle trilogy, but if your kids (or you) are anything like me, they’ll spend the whole book waiting for Howl to show up and not really enjoy or … Continue reading
Howl’s Moving Castle
We’ve been a little witch heavy this month to be sure, but here is your remedy. One powerful, vain, girl-crazy wizard plus his incredible moving castle. I seriously love this book. I love Calcifer the fire demon, I love poor … Continue reading
Bloomability
Can we discuss how awful that cover is? I don’t know how you’d convince a kid to read a book with that cover. Any kid I know would either say “ew” and put it back, or say nothing and sort … Continue reading
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