Category: Book/Author Highlight
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Book Highlight: Suite Scarlett
This was the first book I read in the middle school library, and I have lked it ever since. It’s not too groundbreaking, it has the rather generic coming of age story of a teenage girl. Only hers is that she and the rest of their family are trying to save their dying hotel. It…
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Book Highlight: Unbecoming
This heartwarming YA novel explores three generations of women, and the secrets that burden them and twist their relationship with their daughters over the years.
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Book Highlight: The Lucky Ones
This informative, passionate memoir follows Jenny Brown, founder and owner of Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary as she delves into her journey into animal rights, particularly farm animals and veganism. Beginning at age 10 when she was diagnosed with cancer, she had to have her leg amputated. Her mother sought to ease the pain a little…
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Book Highlight: Piglet
This is not a review. As I mentioned in my Animal Books post, I automatically adore nonfiction books about animals and am completely biased so I adored this book. I literally cried (for the first time) because it was so adorable. I also cried because it was heartwarming and there was some animal death/abuse passages.…
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Book Highlight: The Waterfire Saga
For anyone who is a mermaid fan, this fantasy adventure is just for you. The six seas are made up of different kingdoms and are under threat by a monsterous levithan creature called Abbadon who was raised by even more mysterious ancestor come back from the dead and for revenge.
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Book Highlight: Black Widow Duology
The Black Widow duology came out back in 2016 which I believe was the original timeline for the Black Widow movie premiere. But of course it got pushed back until 2019 so these books brought the hype very early and you can see some evidence of their movie inspiration in the pages. As one can…
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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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