The Great Trouble by Deborah Hopkinson Rating: 4 out of 5 Magical Coffee Cups From goodreads.com Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a “mudlark,” he spends his days in the filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to sell. He’s being hunted by Fisheye … More The Great Trouble
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt Rating: 3 out of 5 Magical Coffee Cups From Goodreads “Everybody is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing it is stupid.” Ally has been smart … More Fish in a Tree
Mary: The Summoning by Hillary Monahan Rating: 3 out of 5 Magical Coffee Cups From Goodreads.com There is a right way and a wrong way to summon her. Jess had done the research. Success requires precision: a dark room, a mirror, a candle, salt, and four teenage girls. Each of them–Jess, … More Mary: The Summoning
Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona (Artist) Rating: 3 out of 5 magical coffee cups From Goodreads.com “Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City — until she’s suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. But who truly is the new Ms. Marvel? Teenager? Muslim? Inhuman? Find out as she … More Ms. Marvel
My Name is Shylock by Howard Jacobson Rating: 2 out of 5 magical coffee cups From Goodreads.com “With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery … More My Name is Shylock
High-Rise by J. G. Ballard Rating 3 out of 5 Magical coffee cups I read this because I heard Tom Hiddleston is going to be in the movie adaptation. Yeah, I have a bit of a problem with this man, I really can’t explain it, he is just an amazing man. … More High-Rise
The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade Series Rating: 4 out of 5 magical coffee cups I found the first book by accident. I thought the premiss sounded interesting. From Goodreads.com The mysterious Mr. Socrates rescues Modo, a child in a traveling freak show. Modo is a hunchback with an … More Serial Saturday
The Girl in the Box by Quida Sebestyen Rating 5 out of 5 magical coffee cups My library has decided to organize the books by genre. It is a lot of work but so far it has been worth every stressed out moment. To complete this project I have been forced … More ThrowBackThursday . . . Book Style
The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence by Stan Lee, Stuart Moore, Andie Tong (Illustrations Rating 4 out of 5 magical coffee cups From Goodreads: “When twelve magical superpowers are unleashed on the world, a Chinese-America teenager named Steven will be thrown into the middle of an epic global chase. He’ll have to … More Zodiac
Not a book review but book-ish. Working in a middle school library is wonderful. I spend a lot of my day looking over books in the library and online, making lists on what books to order next, and talking with the students about what books they enjoy reading and what books they would like to … More The Graphic Novel Graphic Wall
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