Tag: #littlebrownbooksforyoungreaders
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Ranking suppl. Land of Stories
I’m calling these supplemental books because they are fun extras that expand the world, but you don’t necessarily need to read them. They’re just fun, I mean you can’t tell a writer enjoys their world when they keep adding stuff to it. I get it.
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Ranking A Tale of Magic trilogy
The prequel to Colfer’s popular middle grade fantasy series, The Land of Stories, this trilogy takes us to the oppressive world of Brystal Evergreen. Chariot Hills and the rest of the Southern Kingdom are ruled by old white men and predictably, religion, and patriarchy reign surpreme. Women can’t read, gender roles are strictly enforced and…
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July Books
Queen Charlotte by Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes Although I finished the Brigderton series the other year, I am a completist so I had to read this companion book even though it is connected more to the tv series than the original novels. I’ll admit, since it said companion I thought it would be more…
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Summer State of Mind Review
Since Harper McAllister’s dad (cheesily nicknamed McDaddy) hit it big as a music producer, Harper’s family moved out of their comfortable home to pricy upstate New York where she quickly finds herself in the popular crowd and sharing the wealth with her new best friends. However, when her parents get hold of her overcharged AMEX…
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Feb Books
Someone to Love by Melissa de la Cruz Almost a companion to Something in Between, readers may remember Royce’s much nicer younger sister Olivia “Liv” Blakely. Now it’s four years later and the sweet kid is dealing with a tumultuous personal demon. Bulimia and cutting. The former is her way of making sure she’ll always…
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Beautiful Creatures Review
I’ll admit I’m not coming to this blind as I read the sequel series first (I know, I know but Link and Ridley’s prologue for Dangerous Creatures was so much more intriguing to me than this one) and I saw the film adaptation when it first came out which is why I read said sequel…
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Winter Books
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Someone said that this was like a modern Bridget Jones Diary but I’d say this was a bit deeper than that. Yes, the titular Queenie does have a bonkers love life and sometimes she doesn’t know how to put the oven on and her personal and business life cna get messy…
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Ranking Finishing School
1. Etiquette & Espionage: Now I’ll admit maybe this series would have been more enjoyable to me if I had read the Parasoul Protectorate first, I mean I was a bit confused that this was steampunk London and vampires/werewolves exist? It was all a surprise but that’s why the first book in the series gets…
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Boxers, Saints and Little Women
This historical saga by Gene Luen Yang imparts the history of the Boxer Rebellion from the people in the rebellion rather than the dusty old textbooks focusing on the Europeans views of things. Filled with tragedy, magical realism and some humor with expressive visuals that keep the story moving.
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Summer YA
Debating Darcy by Sayantani DasGupta While I’m usually iffy with Pride and Prejudice adaptations since they’re everywhere, there’s always one that manages a new spin to it that makes me enjoy the story all over again. It helps that the protagonist, Elizabeth is a musical nerd so I immediately connect with her as she sings…