Title: The Hippo at the End of the Hall Author: Helen Cooper Publisher: Candlewick Press Hardcover: 352 pages Source: NetGalley Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from the Book Depository The invitation to the Gee Museum was delivered by bees. It wasn’t addressed to anyone, but Ben knows that it was meant for him. Why else would the… Continue reading Book Review: The Hippo at the End of the Hall by Helen Cooper
Title: The Princess in Black Authors: Shannon Hale and Dean Hale Illustrator: LeUyen Pham Series: The Princess in Black, Book 1 Publisher: Candlewick Press Hardcover: 90 pages Source: Chicago Public Library Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from The Book Depository Princess Magnolia is having hot chocolate and scones with Duchess Wigtower when . . .… Continue reading Book Review: The Princess in Black by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale
Title: The Search for TK Author: Bobbi JG Weiss Series: Ride, Book 3 Publisher: Candlewick Press Hardcover: 272 pages Source: LibraryThing Early Reviewers Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from the Book Depository Kit’s attempts to fit in at Covington go off course when her horse, TK, is sold. Can she find him and bring him home,… Continue reading Book Review: The Search for TK by Bobbi JG Weiss
Title: We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults Author: Susan Kuklin Publisher: Candlewick Press Hardcover: 192 pages Source: NetGalley Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from the Book Depository “Maybe next time they hear someone railing about how terrible immigrants are, they’ll think about me. I’m a real person.” Meet nine courageous young adults who have lived… Continue reading Book Review: We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults by Susan Kuklin
Title: The Stuff of Stars Author: Marion Dane Bauer Illustrator: Ekua Holmes Publisher: Candlewick Press Hardcover: 40 pages Source: LibraryThing Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from the Book Depository In an astonishing unfurling of our universe, Newbery Honor winner Marion Dane Bauer and Caldecott Honor winner Ekua Holmes celebrate the birth of every child. Before the universe was formed,… Continue reading Picture Book Review: The Stuff of Stars by Marion Dane Bauer and Ekua Holmes
Title: The Turnaway Girls Author: Hayley Chewins Publisher: Candlewick Press Hardcover: 272 pages Source: NetGalley Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from the Book Depository Delphernia Undersea wants to sing. But everyone on Blightsend knows music belongs to the Masters — and girls with singing throats are swallowed by the sea. On the strange, stormy island of Blightsend, twelve-year-old Delphernia… Continue reading Book Review: The Turnaway Girls by Hayley Chewins
Title: The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge Authors: MT Anderson and Eugene Yelchin Publisher: Candlewick Press Hardcover: 544 pages Source: NetGalley Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from the Book Depository Subverting convention, award-winning creators M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin pair up for an anarchic, outlandish, and deeply political saga of warring elf and goblin kingdoms. Uptight elfin historian Brangwain… Continue reading Book Review: The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
Title: Begone the Raggedy Witches Author: Celine Kiernan Series: The Wild Magic Trilogy, Book 1 Publisher: Candlewick Press Hardcover: 288 pages Source: NetGalley Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from the Book Depository When witches kidnap her dad, Mup is swept up in a wild tide of magic that carries her to another world. Can she reunite her family and… Continue reading Book Review: Begone the Raggedy Witches by Celine Kiernan
Title: The Dollar Kids Author: Jennifer Richard Jacobson Illustrator: Ryan Andrews Publisher: Candlewick Press Hardcover: 417 pages Summary: (taken from Goodreads) Buy from the Book Depository When a family buys a house in a struggling town for just one dollar, they’re hoping to start over — but have they traded one set of problems for another?… Continue reading Book Review: The Dollar Kids by Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Title: House of Dreams: The Life of L.M. Montgomery Author: Liz Rosenberg Illustrator: Julie Morstad Publisher: Candlewick Press Hardcover: 352 pages Source: NetGalley Summary: (taken from Goodreads) An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant… Continue reading Book Review: House of Dreams: The Life of L.M. Montgomery by Liz Rosenberg
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