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Book Highlight: The Yawning Rabbit River Chronicle
This is a fun kids book that acts as a triptych taking place over 20 years in titular Yawning Rabbit River. The first story tells the origins of how the rabbit thief, Sean raced the river goddess Violet to bring water back to the Valley and how his heroic actions immortalized him forever. As well…
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Book Highlight: Before and After
This is the amazing, heartbreaking and true story of the Tennessee Children’s Home Society, a nonprofit orphanage run by Georgia Tann that was quite popular drawing support from prominant families. Celebrities like Joan Crawford and June Allyson had adopted children from the agency. But Tann had been cooking the books, destroying paperwork of its fradulent…
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Author Highlight: Gail Carson Levine
Now I already wrote about the books of hers that I adore in my Favorite Fairytale Books and Favorite Fairy Books which gives you a clue as to which she genre she excels in. In fact her most famous novel is the Cinderella retelling, Ella Enchanted (its movie also helped shoot Anne Hathway to movie…
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Book Highlight: KPop Confidential
K-Pop Confidential by Stephan Lee is a great book for any K-Pop fan or newbie. I am one of those newbies, I haven’t really listened to it before because of the language difference but the passion and artistic achievement described in this book made me want to! Now we start with ou protagonist, Candace, your…
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Author Highlight: Courtney Sheinmel
I have already talked about one of her books that I have reread several times, Sincerely, but last year I decided to go on a binge of several of her middle grade books. None of them are connected, but each deal with the complexities of families and the young protagonists dealing with big changes in…
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Book Highlight: El Deafo
This graphic novel by Cece Bell is a loose autobiographical account of Cece’s childhood. After an intense bout of menengitis, she lost her hearing in bith ears thus sparking a long journey into the hearing-able/deaf world and the difficulties of growing pains alongside being considered “different” and disabled. Since this autobiographical, Bell obviously has a…
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Book vs Movie: Howl’s Moving Castle
Now this is a case where the movie is infinitly more well-known than the book it originated from. Yes, I’m talking about the beloved Studio Ghibli film. However, as I haven’t seen the movie I can’t say if it is better or what changes were made from book to screen. All I can say is…
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Book Highlight: I Will Always Write Back
This heartwarming memoir shows the bonds that come from pen pals no matter the distance or difference in their places in life. Caitlin Alifirenka chose the country of Zimbabwe on a whim when it came time for the class pen pal assignment, wanting something different from the usual European countries everyone else knew about. Martin…
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Book Highlight: Channel Kindness
I put this as another book highlight as this nonfiction book is incredible heartwarming and uplifting that I can’t find many flaws to criticize it. I mean how can you critique kids trying to put an end to bullying and raising money for shelters. You can’t. This book was created by Lady Gaga. She and…
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Book Highlights: Bayala: Daughters of the Elf King
This is going to be a short highlight since it’s been awhile since I read this and I don’t have it with me on hand. This book written by Gecko Keck is based on the the Bayala toy line. As one can imagine the toy line with its sparkly fairies and horses caught my eye…
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