Tag: #littlebrownbooksforyoungreaders
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Summer Comics/Manga
Princess Jellyfish by Akiko Higashimura This fun manga follows a group of amars/okuta (women who don’t need men/adult fangirls) as they try to save their building from being sold to greedy developers by creating their own fashion line. Tsukimi is the star of it, and as you can guess from the title, her specific obssession…
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Sleepaway Girls Review
Ah summer camp, the pine trees, the color wars, the bug spray. I never got the appeal but Calonita makes a good case for it with Samantha Montgomery who heads to Whispering Pines for a change of scenery and to get away from being the third wheel to her BFF and boyfriend love bubble. Right…
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The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages Review
I was a fan of the series way back in middle school so when I heard they were coming out with a whole new book all these years later. I ignored it. But now I figured why not, let’s see if it holds up. So I reread the other four books and dove into The…
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Book Tie Ins
Now I’m not talking about the junior novelizations of movies and tv show episodes. I’m talking about books that seek to expand the universe and give side characters their time in the limelight like the dozens of Star Wars books. However, I never read or seen the full Star Wars trilogy so I don’t have…
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Top 5 Ann M. Martin Books
Main Street I literally read this series 10 years in a row, every summer. It’s just so comforting and wholesome. It starts with the orphaned Northrop sisters, Flora and Ruby who are taken to live with their grandmother, Min (short for in a minute) in Camden Falls, MA. It’s not so tragic as they’ve been…
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Historical Novels
Nonfiction Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore This book takes on what should be a more well-known historical case in the history of women’s rights and workers rights. The case of the Dial Girls who slowly poisoned themselves and the managers who tried to willingly ignore their complaints and…