A girl who loves to read
By Rebecca Kai Dotlich
Illustrated by Matthew Cordell
Book Status: Available
This book was intriguing to me cause its made by two authors I love!!
This book is about how to know the sky is blue, know that its ok to cry, just know. I like it and it’s kinda like a mindfulness book!! 🙂📕🙂📕🙂📕🙂📕🙂📕🙂📕🙂📕🙂📕
I recommend this book to anyone who needs a book to help with anger and unclamped stuff!!
By Diane Magras
Book Source: Purchased by me (aka my parents)
Book Status: Available
This is the second book in a series. I don’t know if there will be a third based on the ending but there could be. Anyway, in this book, Drest is on the run with her friends. Sir Oswin still has control over Emerick’s castle and they can’t go home until that is fixed. A lot of things have to happen from the start of the book to getting control of the castle including leaving Phearsham Ridge.
Once again this is an adventure with a strong female. She is even more dangerous than the Mad Wolf and his sons. She is even the youngest. Drest is not someone I recommend crossing. She is the reasons the main good characters survive.
I recommend this book to people who liked the first one. To kids who like an adventure. Kids who like mythology might like this too. I think this is best for fourth grade up.
Oh and the Mom is not who you think she is…
Illustrations by CS Jennings
Book Source: Provided by Media Masters Publicity for review
Book Status: Available
I’m reviewing 2 books now, and both are about how major businesses and how they came to be.
One book was about Nike, the shoe company, not the goddess. I never really thought much about my shoe company or who I am wearing. Some people do. In this book I learned that Nike is the biggest shoe company in the world. I learned a track athlete and a coach became the perfect pair to make shoes. Now it is so much more than shoes.
The Disney was less interesting because I already knew a lot of the story. Plus two pages were movies and their dates. This would be very interesting for a kid interested in Disney and how it became everything it is now!
These were different books for me to read because they were real stories. I had never thought to read about businesses. I bet a lot of kids hadn’t considered reading business books. It was cool to have these books written at a kid level. The explanation of what “going public” means was really cool and easy to understand. I am not going to tell you it because you should read these.
I am still struggling with my book wall. These were a nice change of pace for me.
One of the best things about being a book reviewer is I am always being provided books I would not have read otherwise. It helps me not get stuck in reading just one style.
By Trudi Trueit
Book Source: Provided for review
Book Status: Available March 19, 2019
This is a sequel and if you haven’t already read the first book, you really should. In this adventure they are still looking for the sipher. It looks like in each book they find a piece of the sipher and there is always a traitor. I can’t say too much but I am afraid I will reveal everything! (this has been a problem lately)
It is exciting to be on the adventure with the characters. This is the type of book for kids who want to explore. Maybe kids who like spy stuff would enjoy it too.
I enjoy adventure books. They are a good balance to when I read books about history or adhd characters having a rough time.
Teachers or librarians should have this for fourth and fifth grade libraries!
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2. What is a book that made an impact on you?
The book that had the greatest impact on me was The Hobbit, by Tolkien. But the one I want to give a shout-out to here is The Lottery Rose, by Irene Hunt. It’s the first book I ever read that made me cry. Up until that point, I didn’t realize that a story could have such a profound effect on my emotions.
3. Is it hard to come up with book ideas? Like how did you think to mix foster kid with Witness Protection?
I find generating ideas to be both easy and fun…the trick is finding one that will actually make a good book. That’s harder, since I don’t really know if an idea is novel-worthy until I try to plot it out. That’s quite a bit harder, and it takes lots of work. However, nothing beats the feeling of finishing an outline and realizing you’ve got a potential story on your hands (except maybe the feeling of publishing one!)
4. What author or book have read recently that impacted you?
I recently read Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s The Book of Boy, and I loved it. Both my undergraduate and graduate degrees are in medieval European history, so to read a book centered in that time period – and a fantasy novel rooted in relic culture, no less! – was great fun. It was also a reminder of the myriad ways we can access history to tell compelling stories.
5. Is there a new or lesser known author you think kids should be aware of?
When I was a kid, I was a huge fan of choose-your-own-adventure novels. They’ve started making a bit of a comeback, so I think I’d let kids know about a guy whose books I absolutely devoured when I was a kid. His name’s Joe Dever, and he wrote a massive CYOA adventure series – one in which the choices you made in the first book could impact the narrative in the fifteenth book. I still own all my old copies, and was pleased to discover that his work is available online for free, too (check out www.projectaon.org).
6. What advice do you have for a kid who wants to be an author?
Find an audience for your stuff, and share it frequently. Get good at seeking critique and accepting feedback. The quicker you learn to look at your writing as a living thing, always evolving and improving, the easier it will be for you to embrace the revision process. That’s vital, because it’s in revision that the real work (and a lot of the real joy) of our profession lies.
7. As an author, do you hear from your readers? What do you like about that?
I do hear from readers, and I absolutely adore it. My favorite thing about responses from fans is their questions; I love giving them the inside scoop on tidbits that might not have made it into the novels. It lets me revisit the stories in a fun way, and they sometimes even inspire me to think about a character, plot thread, or setting in a new light.
8. If you could portal into any book (yours or another person’s), what book would it be?
I think anyone who says anything other than Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is either lying or hasn’t thought carefully enough about the question.
By Nicola Winstanley and John Martz
Book Source: Borrowed from Library
Book Status: available
This is a super fun book I just had to share!
This book is about how to give your cat a bath. It tells you in five easy steps, obviously, oh, what’s that? Ten or something? Wow, that cat must be fast, and he is! And in the end, the settle on——–SPOILER ALERT 🚨 SPOILER ALERT 🚨!!!!!!
This would be really fun to read with a class! It would also be cool to read alone.
By Marcus Emerson
Book Source: provided for review
Book Status: available
This book is about a boy named Ben Braver who attends a school for kids with super powers. Well, I’m not sure super is the right word, more like okaay. But he doesn’t have any powers, which makes life even harder, along with an incident the Vic is not short for Victor, but Victoria, and Vic is not happy about that, oh and Vic is friends with the bully. The problem is well, they have power battles, a group has now formed called the BraverRavers, and it’s really too many to count.
I recommend this book to kids who need a laugh and if you want a good book for bedtime chapters cause it will make you want to never stop.
