pickNo one knows how to spin fairy tales to their ghastly delight quite like Adam Gidwitz in my opinion. This is the 2nd book in the trilogy and who would've known that the stories of The Princess and the Frog, Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack and Jill and Mary Had a Little Lamb (to name a few) could all be related! This was a delightfully wicked 🎧 and read by the author...on to the final book! ⭐⭐⭐⭐
so-soAs the daughter of a child refugee, I find books about child refugees tough. I liked parts of this one - especially the friendship between the two boys, but it turns my stomach when books like these become page turning adventure stories and I felt like this one tried to toward the end. I‘m also kind of over the ‘white person learns and grows by helping a person of colour‘ narrative.
The first of what I assume will be many to-reads from abookowlscorner.com book blog. I‘m freaking out that she actually wrote me back to say she‘ll review Shadow Status! Meanwhile, I can‘t wait to dig into one of Naemi‘s elementary school favorites from 2014 Crossing Jordan. #chapterbooks #childrensbooks #middlegrade #kidlit
so-soLast book in the Magisterium series. Last adventure for Call and his friends. Last year for them at magic school.
pickThe last MG graphic novel for #LMPC Group A was fabulous! Very experiential. No page numbers or right angled panels… I found this to be a slow read, but a completely immersive one. The art and text blended surprisingly well, and I could feel myself there with the characters and see everything they were doing around me. For me this was a 5 ⭐️ read even though I found the storyline fun but not remarkable, just because the characters were so bright.
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