by Dusti Bowling (Author) A startling book for middle-grade kids about a girl who refuses to believe she is a freak or disabled. In fact, Aven Green is very capable of doing just about everything she wants despite being born without arms. She has a very cool can-do attitude that will change readers’ opinions about…
By Victoria Tait (Author) After Dotty Sayers’ Christmas decor accomplishment and murder-solving adventure in Yorkshire, her “friend” Zach invites her to Northumberland to help him continue his family treasure hunt. Dotty has nothing better to do and is still not sure she wants to return to her home in the Cotswold yet, so she…
by Hope Callaghan (Author) What a hoot of a mystery story! Who knew that criminals could use Artificial Intelligence to promote a scam on Millie and her friends? Well they did, but, oh boy, did they NOT know Millie! Like a mama bear with her cubs in danger she leads her friends on the criminal’s…
by Alex Woolf (Author), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Thomas Judd (Narrator), Arcturus Digital (Publisher) An AUDIOBOOK Review I loved all the stories in this “retold for kids” version of Sherlock Holmes. They are very like the original ones that I read years ago, so the retelling of them is done well. I suppose some objectional words or objects, and maybe Holmes’…
by Audrey Alden (Author) I love cruising, so I read all the books I can that are set on cruise ships. DEAD MAN’S DISH is the first in a series by Audrey Alden, set in the present day. (Note the play-on-words with the main character’s last name, “Cruz.” Clever!) Rose Dela Cruz is a…
Benedict Brown (Author), George Blagden (Narrator), Heathdene Books (Publisher) An Audiobook Review I love Benedict Brown‘s Lord Edgington Investigates books, and have read (listened to) all of them to date. They are whodunnits, investigated by the 75-year-old, eccentric Marques of Edgington and his 18-year-old grandson. So fun! THE SNOWS OF WESTON MOOR (book 8) didn’t disappoint. There is an Agatha Christie-like…
by Katy Bowser Hutson (Author), Jodi Hays (Illustrator), Tish Harrison Warren (Foreword) A friend gave me this book after learning I too was facing breast cancer. It is a wonderful, visceral, raw, and very helpful book. Katy Bowser Hutson is a writer and poet. She begins the book with “The Week Before Cancer” when she was enjoying attending a writers’ conference. And…
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