![]() The few illustrations throughout the book also kept my attention. I also felt like the descriptions were vivid enough that I could imagine myself there. I loved that at the end of each chapter, they left cliff hangers that kept me wanting to find out what would happen next. Last semester, I was introduced into the Magic Tree House series, but I never finished an entire tree house book with a class. They're just very well done and a great support to these wonderful stories. They add so much to the stories, to see how the kids are dressed or what the fantastical creatures look like. ![]() I've always liked the images in the MTH books, but the Merlin Mission books seem to have more frequent and more detailed pictures. The illustrations in the Merlin Missions have been really great as well. Jack and Annie are getting old fast, it's been a year a a half since the Merlin Missions began. Maybe reading stories like this helps that along. On the other hand, sometimes things come out of my guys' mouths that are so sweet and perceptive that I am truly humbled. Sometimes these kids seem impossibly wise. Such a great fantasy at any age, who wouldn't want to try that? ![]() ![]() Plus another very exciting transformation (ravens and flying in the last book) into seals swimming in the sea. I love the mythology! What a fun way to introduce kids to selkies and King Arthur's sword and more. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() “What's heartwarming throughout is the depiction of a tight-knit family (‘My family makes up a strong crew of four'). “Wonderfully detailed, often humorous.” - BCCB “A warm look at the nuts and bolts of building a house and turning it into a home.” - Publishers Weekly “* Bean creates an engaging story as well as a glimpse into a warm family setting.” - The Horn Book, starred review Title: Building Our House By: Jonathan Bean Illustrated By: Jonathan Bean Format: Hardcover Number of Pages: 48 Vendor: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication Date: 2013: Dimensions: 12.20 X 9.30 X 0. “* Lovingly told, this captivating tale will help satisfy a child's curiosity of what it takes to create a building from scratch.” - School Library Journal, starred review It's something special.” - Kirkus Reviews, starred review Children will enjoy the comforting solidity of shoring up foundations and sawing strong boards.” - The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) Bean's terrific illustrations show a loving family, living in a mobile home as they gather lumber and pour concrete. ![]() A young girl (who narrates the story) moves with her. Building Our House Jonathan Bean Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (2013) ISBN 10: 0374380236 ISBN 13: 9780374380236 New Hardcover Quantity: 9 Seller: Welcome Back Books (Toledo, OH, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Hardcover. “Children ages 3–10 who already like tools and diggers aren't the only ones who will respond to the warmth and optimism in these clear, detailed, gently color-washed pages.” - The Wall Street Journal Building Our House chronicles one familys step-by-step process of constructing a home from the ground up. ![]() ![]() ![]() Danika had a whole secret life, filled with so many secrets and people that Bryce never knew about. And honestly, it's because half the time most of those twists were coming entirely out of left field and it was all Danika's fault! I was getting second-hand embarrassment for Bryce every time something new was revealed about her supposed 'best friend'. While I did predict the outcome to several plot twists, like the identity of agent Daybright, there were a billion other twists that I didn't see coming, like that ending for which nothing could have prepared me for!!!!. Every time I thought I knew where the story was going, a whole other layer of complications and magic and worldbuilding was added to the mix. I can't even count the number of times I had to put it down and walk away for a minute because I was scared to read what happened next. I'll try to write a review but bear with me.įirst, let me just say that if anything happens to Ruhn and Hunt I am going to riot. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. “A lovely graphic novel for gamer girls of all ages.” -Felicia DayĪnda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. Tolkienįrom acclaimed teen author Cory Doctorow and rising star cartoonist Jen Wang comes a New York Times-bestselling graphic novel that takes a sensitive, thoughtful look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture-clash. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. ![]() By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C. ![]() Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games
![]() ![]() ![]() You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you,Īnd you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, Many fans purchased the book and it inspired many fanworks, and even fan tattoos. It came out around the time Supernatural started in 2005, and fans soon discovered many parallels between the poems and the show, particularly Sam and Dean's relationship as seen by Wincest shippers. The book Crush is a series of poems described as "confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism", and in part influenced by the death of Siken's boyfriend in 1991. He is the author of two collections of poetry - Crush (Yale University Press, 2005), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2004 and War of the Foxes, which was released from Copper Canyon Press in 2015. Richard Siken is a gay American poet, painter, and filmmaker. ![]() With all of us watching, with all of us wondering if these two boys will Like a monster, crawls up out of the lake A double-feature, two boys striking out across America, while desire, ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a love letter to classic private eye fiction, steeped in Brubaker’s vision of a Los Angeles that no longer exists, with a flawed and complex protagonist, all masterfully illustrated by Phillips, with colors by his son, Jacob Phillips. Complete, done-in-one stories that present a complete adventure, but also serve as part of a bigger, ongoing series. ![]() Instead of releasing their stories via monthly, comic shop-focused “floppy” comic book installments that would later be bound and collected as trade paperbacks for the book trade, the creators have pivoted to doing a series of original graphic novels. Their latest collaboration, while still firmly entrenched in the dark corners of graphic novel crime, marks a departure of sorts. ![]() ![]() What does this story entail? Time travel (PARADOX!), probably a bit of glorified stalking (ay-oooooooooo), Hitler, lightning (of course) and the story of Laura – from birth to *present* day (present as in 1989) and I am still grinning ear to ear. Would that have changed my love for this book? I really don’t think so! I also love just how short the synopsis is. I’m beyond thrilled to find that I STILL love this novel SO DAMN MUCH.ĭo I have things to say about certain parts of this book that may not have worked for me if I had read it for the first time today? Absolutely. I haven’t read this book in literal decades – the first being when I was soooo young and to be reading it now, 30+ years later (yes, I’m old), and through different, more experienced eyes. ![]() Ahhhh! Thanks to my co-Buddy Reads to Die For hosts for allowing me to choose one of my all time favorite Koontz books as our February book club read. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s no surprise the series has garnered fans, one of them being supervising director Simon Otto. The first book has received several accolades including being named a New York Times Editor’s Choice, an ALA Notable boo in 2010, and a Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year. ![]() “This one girl that I’ll never forget,” Gidwitz recalled fondly, “she stuck her finger into my face and she goes, ‘That was good.’ And I was like, ‘What?’ And she goes, ‘You should make that into a book.’ So, I did.”Ī Tale Dark & Grimm (2010) was Gidwitz’s debut and is the first in a trilogy followed by In a Glass Grimmly and The Grimm Conclusion. Gidwitz credits the fruition of his idea for the book series to a girl in the audience when he was telling the story of “Faithful Johannes” to a group of second graders as a substitute librarian. The voice cast features Raini Rodriguez ( Austin & Ally) Andre Robinson ( The Loud House) Adam Lambert ( American Idol) Scott Adsit ( Big Hero 6: The Series) Ron Funches ( Trolls) Erica Rhodes ( La Vie en Rhodes) Eric Bauza ( Space Jam: A New Legacy) Tom Hollander ( American Dad!) Missi Pyle ( Bordertown) and Nicole Byer ( Nailed It!). ![]() ![]() Eliana Gil, Ph.D., Founder, Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery & Education, Fairfax, VA Enjoyable, informative and capable of capturing a child's imagination." I truly enjoyed reading this and I believe children with depression, and their parents, will find acknowledgment, guidance and hope in this little book. "The illustrations are colorful and whimsical, and the fact that Amy takes us on a journey to Australia provides the novelty that keeps the book captivating and moving right along. G knows that depression is the culprit, and extends a listening ear and helping hand, all the while reassuring the quokka that lots of adults and kids feel depression, too! This book grabs you from the outset and takes you on a hopeful journey: A colorful, spunky raven (with a Ph.D.) travels to Australia to meet aquokka who has lost his true smile, finds it hard to move and isn't hanging out with friends anymore. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Katalin starts giving Péter voice lessons, they take an intrepid step out of hiding by making music together. The two have something in common besides fear: they are singers whose very natures make the silence unbearable. Both Péter and Katalin keep their heads down and their mouths clamped shut, because silence is the only safety they know. Moving to Budapest for a manual labor job, Péter meets Katalin Varga, an unwed mother whose baby's father has vanished, most likely at the hands of the secret police. In this milieu of dread, the best land of Péter Benedek's peasant family is seized and his life upended. ![]() After a lost war and a brutal transition to communism, the people live under constant threat of blacklisting, property confiscation, arrest, imprisonment, and worse. In 1951, a grim hush has settled over Hungary. ![]() |