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Throwing Sticks and Skipping Stones by Gloria MacKay
The following review was contributed by: TAMI BRADY Throwing Sticks and Skipping Stones is a humorous, heart warming,good for the soul book. This book is filled with true life stories exerts, life lessons, thoughts, and rants on every subject possible. Some of these topics make you laugh until your sides hurt. Other stories remind the reader to take advantage of the important things in life. All of the stories are entertaining. I suggest that you take this book, sit yourself down on a...
(No rating) 1-1-1970 Views: 2745

Blood Harvest
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Blood HarvestAuthor: Brant Randall Publishers: Capital Crime PressISBN: 13:978-0-9799960-1-6: 10: 0-9799960-1-5 Deputy Marshall Ichabod Lawe, the principal narrator in Brant Randall’s debut novel Blood Harvest may have been a gossip, however, he undoubtedly had quite a yarn to narrate. As Lawe informs us, the MacKay family, who lived in Peony Springs, a little rural town in New England, were not exactly pleased when in 1916 their fifteen-year old daughter...
(No rating) 1-30-2008 Views: 6351

Taneesha Never Disparaging
Click Here To Purchase Taneesha Never Disparaging Author: M. LaVora PerryISBN: 978-0-8617-1550-3Publisher: Wisdom PublicationsAn author with a knack for a humorously compassionate story and a snappy character who lends herself to its telling come together in Taneesha Never Disparaging, a middle-grade novel with timeless coming-of-age conflicts related through the frank voi
(No rating) 5-2-2008 Views: 2754

Aidan of Oren: Valley of the Dragons
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Aidan of Oren: Valley of the DragonsAuthor: Alan St. JeanPublisher: Oren Village, LLCISBN: 978-0-9777272-1-6 Aidan of Oren, the third installment of Alan St. Jean’s fantasy series for young readers, continues the saga of young Aidan on the quest to find his father and take down the evil half-dragon, half-man who is his nemesis. We follow Aidan and his small band of youthful followers on a series of adventures that entails encounters with vile creatures,...
(No rating) 1-11-2008 Views: 5607

The Boy Who Loved Birds
Author: George CarruthIllustrator: Libby Carruth Krock Publisher: Too Much Fun, LLC ISBN: 0-9773167-0-X Any young child with a fascination for the wonders of nature will find a special home in the pages of George Carruth’s The Boy Who Loved Birds. This whimsical picture book follows a budding ornithologist through a dream in which he hatches from an egg, sprouts wings, masters the art of flight, and meets a winged girl with whom to raise hatchlings of their own....
(No rating) 5-15-2007 Views: 4960

What Stinks?
Author: George CarruthIllustrator: Libby Carruth KrockPublisher: Too Much Fun, LLC ISBN: 978-0-9773167-2-4 For any young child who has searched for the origin of a mysterious sight, sound, or smell, George Carruth’s What Stinks? will become a favorite read.This picture book follows the determined exploits of a girl and her little brother as they search the nooks and crannies of their home for the source of an unexplained odor. They find many unpleasant and potentially odiferous items, from...
(No rating) 8-2-2007 Views: 2259

Alena & the Favorite Thing
Author: Eric B. AndersonIllustrator: Jakub KuzmaThis compelling picture-book story takes the form of a father’s nostalgic tribute to his growing child as he follows young Alena through a household journey in search of “Poppa’s favorite thing.” The story begins with a typical rainy-day predicament: Alena is bored, and Poppa must devise a way to fill her time. They travel through the house in a quest for his elusive favorite item, skirting the basement and under the stairs to end up in Alena’s...
(No rating) 4-20-2007 Views: 7088

The Shadow Speaker
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Shadow SpeakerAuthor: Nnedi Okorafor-MbachuISBN: 1-4231-0033-6Publisher: Disney Book Group Not every author can create a believably unbelievable world, but when it works, it is a memorable story in the making. Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu accomplishes the feat in The Shadow Speaker, crafting one of the most imaginative, compelling, and intricate fantasy settings I have read about in recent memory. This book has wizards and magic, characters that call down...
(No rating) 1-11-2008 Views: 6099

Adirondack Nightmare: A Spooky Tale in the North Country
Author: Rebecca LeonardISBN: 1-934383-14-7A good ghost story never stays on a bookshelf for long, and younger readers will find plenty of standard fright fare in the pages of this quick-reading short story: vaguely worded warnings from evasive townsfolk, a moody old man with a motive, flashlights that stop functioning at inopportune moments, and the requisite graveyard that fills with vengeful specters at the stroke of midnight.The plot is a variation of one we’ve seen in many a movie-rental...
(No rating) 5-1-2007 Views: 6273

Skulduggery Pleasant
You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Derek LandyPublisher: HarperCollinsISBN: 0-06-123115-0 I’ve read many books that are so good I wanted to live in their pages and walk with their characters. But not until page 40 of Derek Landy’s Skulduggery Pleasant have I ever wished a talking skeleton would burst into my living room and start throwing fire at bad guys.This is the tale of a bored and under-challenged p
(No rating) 7-7-2007 Views: 4060

The Secret of the Lonely Grave
Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Albert A. Bell, Jr. Publisher: Ingalls Publishing Group, Inc.ISBN: 978-1-932158-79-3 An aging cemetery, a puzzling tombstone, and the discovery of a human skeleton stir up a summer mystery that middle-grade readers won’t be able to put down. The Secret of the Lonely Grave, by history professor Alfred A. Bell, Jr., is a compelling work of historical fiction that wraps significant events from America’s past in a contemporary plot. Eager...
(No rating) 8-2-2007 Views: 4929

Extreme Monsters: The Blue Moon Effect
Author: Mel FriedmanIllustrator: Eric SmithPublisher: Penny Candy Press, an imprint of Brighter Minds PublishingISBN: 1-55791-178-4Vampires, werewolves, street luging and speed climbing . . . Extreme Monsters: The Blue Moon Effect has them all. The first in a string of page-turning chapter books featuring a lineup of stuntmen with superpowers, this series debut introduces the Extreme Monsters daredevil sports team: a skateboarding vampire, a street luging witch, an in-line skating werewolf, a...
(No rating) 3-27-2007 Views: 11789

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