Amulet Book Four: The Last Council by Kazu Kibuishi
The story of Emily continues in yet another beautiful book by Kibuishi. The characters have a great, consistent style to them and the landscapes could be stand-alone paintings apart from the book. Like...
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The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
I just finished The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater. It’s the story of Puck Connolly and Sean Kendrick, two teens on a small Celtic island that is visited by man-eating horses every year. Yeah, I...
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Google Maps is a fan of Tolkien
In Google Maps, type “The Shire” as destination A and “Mordor” as destination B. Choose the walking directions. Do you see the Hobbit/Lord of the Rings joke in there?
View ArticleThe Lord of the Rings Family Tree
The Lord of the Rings is one of the only books that I had to keep flipping back to the index while reading. Everyone’s an “-orn” this or an “-endil” that. It’s hard to keep track of. Until now. Check...
View ArticleCinder by Marissa Meyer
I’ll be honest. It’s pretty tough to convince me that the world needs another Cinderella re-telling, especially since so many stories out there are rags to riches. Re-tellings of fairy tales are huge...
View ArticleThe Apothecary by Maile Meloy
I have not seen much Cold War fiction for middle grade students. For nonfiction, I definitely recommend The Dark Game. I was intrigued instantly by the premise of The Apothecary: a young girl’s family...
View ArticleIcefall by Matthew J. Kirby
Icefall reminds me a lot of The Ranger’s Apprentice, and that’s not a bad thing. Icefall is set in a Viking community and deals with Norse mythology but doesn’t cross into a fantasy adventure, per se....
View ArticleThe False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
I’m learning more and more that plotlines and tropes can be re-used/re-mixed but that it’s a quality cast of characters that still makes for an enjoyable read. The False Prince is about a missing/dead...
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Bone: The Complete Saga by Jeff Smith
This is what 1,300+ pages of awesome looks like. Yesterday I finished Bone by Jeff Smith. I would read a bit at a time in-between all of the other books that I’m reading and then yesterday was the big...
View ArticleAmulet: Prince of the Elves by Kazu Kibuishi
I’ve been a fan of Kibuishi’s Amulet series since the first book and enjoy seeing more and more of the grand scale of the story. It’s still about the characters, with Emily and Navin developing more...
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