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Jeremy thatcher dragon hatcher6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It was the depth of this relationship that made the book's ending so poignant. But the best part of this book was watching the relationship develop between Jeremy and his dragon. The plot of this book had enough depth to it to hold everyone's interest (including mine). But when he wonders into a magic shop one day after school, he's faced with a task that is anything but typical, hatching and raising a dragon. His art teacher gives him a hard time, even though art is his best subject. Jeremy Thatcher is a sixth grader, and his struggles are typical for his age. ![]() The series also includes Jennifer Murdley's Toad, which both of my boys heard at school. I loved this book, and so did both my first-grader and my fourth-grader! This is one of Bruce Coville's Magic Shop Books. ![]()
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Stolen lucy christopher full book6/29/2023 ![]() I remember thinking, “It’s just a movie you have to want that,” because I wanted it. My dad, trying to keep the morals of four teenage girls intact, complained about the movies always doing this, making you root for things you don’t believe in. When I was a teenager, I remember watching a movie with my family and the onscreen couple kissed for the first time and of course five seconds later they slept together. The months where the line between love and obsession, love and dependence, blurred until they didn’t exist-nearly no more. The story takes the form of a letter written by Gemma to Ty, reflecting on the strange and unsettling months in the outback. Under the harsh Australian sun, cut off from the outside world, can the power of his love make Gemma love him back? This new life in the wilderness has been planned for years. He’s young, healthy, and absolutely gorgeous. This wild and desolate scene almost becomes a character in the book, described very vividly. Sixteen-year-old Gemma was kidnapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian outback. Caught in sand and heat, dirt and danger. Taken from everything I know, everything I’m used to. ![]() ![]() Stolen is a beautiful book by author Lucy Christopher. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I’ve come across others like it, with similar types of plots and protagonists of the same ilk. Hilarious, gripping, and unexpectedly wise, The Art of Crash Landing is a poignant novel from an assured new voice. ![]() Uncovering what started her mother’s downward spiral might be the only way to stop her own. The harder Mattie digs for answers, the more obstacles she encounters. But the girl they describe bears little resemblance to the damaged woman Mattie knew, and before long it becomes clear that something terrible happened to her mother, and it happened here. There, she soon learns that her mother remains a local mystery-a happy, talented teenager who inexplicably skipped town thirty-five years ago with nothing but the clothes on her back. Leaving the Florida Panhandle, she drives eight hundred miles to her mother’s birthplace-the tiny town of Gandy, Oklahoma. ![]() When Mattie gets news of a possible inheritance left by a grandmother she’s never met, she jumps at this one last chance to turn things around. Try as she might, Mattie can no longer deny that she really is turning into her mother, a broken alcoholic who never met a bad choice she didn’t make. Broke and knocked up, she’s got all her worldly possessions crammed into six giant trash bags, and nowhere to go. Mattie Wallace has really screwed up this time. From a bright new talent comes this debut novel about a young woman who travels for the first time to her mother’s hometown, and gets sucked into the mystery that changed her family forever ![]()
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![]() News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world-from Beijing to Buenos Aires-and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight. The next day, April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. Roaming through New York City at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture.ĭelighted by its appearance and craftsmanship-like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor-April and her friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. ![]() In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green-co-creator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow-spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined. ![]() ![]() ![]() An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (A Carls Book-1) ![]()
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Michaela coel misfits6/29/2023 ![]() “If my skate teacher saw you he’d be like, ‘Where’s the helmet?’ ” she says. With guards on my wrists and elbows and kneepads strapped over my baggy jeans, I look like an overgrown teenage boy. The pair I’ve chosen have small wheels-the better to keep me grounded, I think. We’re in the parking lot of Decathlon, a sprawling French sports-supply store where she’s persuaded me to buy my first ’blades. “The balance is tough, but the enjoyment is max,” she says, grinning. ![]() She shows me her skates-white with gigantic lilac wheels-and tells me that big wheels equal great speed. Looking every inch the athlete, Coel shows up early for our meet, slender but strong in black running shorts and a sports bra, a purple baseball hat thrown over her closely cropped ’fro. It was a daredevil stunt suited more to an action movie than a Vogue cover shoot. ![]() The day before, in Accra’s historic Jamestown, I’d witnessed Coel flying through traffic on her skates, her polka-dot Burberry cape flapping wildly behind her, photographer Malick Bodian and his crew in hot pursuit. “Totally down for that, sounds like fun!!!” I respond via WhatsApp, adding one too many exclamation points out of apprehension. So I’m not all that surprised when the 35-year-old actor-writer-director suggests meeting for a Rollerblading session on a Sunday morning in Accra, Ghana’s capital city. Michaela Coel doesn’t like to sit still she’s a self-described mover, the type to run a half-marathon in the middle of the night for fun. ![]()
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The Dead Zone by Stephen King6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() King could not have known in 1979 how eerily prescient his novel would feel in 2019, but here we are. It's been four decades since The Dead Zone, King's fifth novel (not counting the ones he released as Richard Bachman), was published, and revisiting it now reveals that it has only grown more frightening with time. ![]() Ambiguity can be a powerful element of horror fiction - is the house really haunted or are you just going crazy? - but mere pages into The Dead Zone, King wants to make it clear that a bad man with big ambitions is stalking the landscape. When he's sure no one is home, he gleefully kicks the dog to death. The very first time we meet Greg Stillson - the rising political star who becomes the villain of King's 1979 novel - he's selling Bibles door to door when he comes across a very loud dog. Stephen King makes sure you know that right away. ![]() There are not very fine people on both sides in The Dead Zone. ![]()
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The winter of discontent book6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Steinbeck, of course, is a great writer, and one of my favourites. I could never really get fond of the central character, Ethan Hawley, and the dialogue reads too much like a film script. I’m sure I’ve read this before bits of the plot seemed familiar, but it didn’t seem like an old friend revisited. The best I can do is refer you to the article at Wikipedia, though you should avoid the plot summary if you haven’t already read the book. It tells me hardly anything about the book, and I can’t redress that with a citation from 1001 Books To Read Before You Die because although Steinbeck is listed, they recommend just three of his novels to read: Cannery Row The Grapes of Wrath, and Of Mice and Men. Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to share these old reviews from my reading journals… like last week’s one for Steppenwolf, this one is a disappointment to me. ![]() First edition, Viking Press, 1961 (Wikipedia) ![]()
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The legion kami garcia6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() i dont really like romance only a little couse i do ship people so the Beautuful creatures mabye have a little to much love or something even though its pretty much the same as the Legion, i really cant describe it (, anyway I do love The Caster Chronical series though but The Legion Series ARE the best books in this world, litterally. Tapas Media, a mobile webcomics and webnovels platform, is partnering with bestselling author Kami Garcia to resume her popular series The Legion with volume three in 2022, with plans to re. for example the Caster Chronical Series, that one is a little advance for me to read but its also not really intrestiing as the legion, i dont know why its just a feeling i have when i read it. ![]() ![]() i havent read many books but there arent many that gets my intrest or attention but when i do read then u hae to know that this serie is SPECIAL. Kami is a cofounder of the YALLFEST kid lit book festival and the author of five solo novels, including her Bram Stoker Award-nominated novels Unbreakable and Unmarked (THE LEGION series) and The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos. Kami the Legion series is EXACTLY as i want books to be, i cant dicribe it but, just OMG. In 2013, Beautiful Creatures released as a feature film from Warner Brothers. ![]()
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To break a covenant by alison ames6/28/2023 ![]() Their circle opens up for a strange girl named Lisey with a knack for training crows, and Piper, whose father is fascinated with the mine in a way that's anything but ordinary. The ex-mining town relies on its haunted reputation to bring in tourists, but there's more truth to the rumors than most are willing to admit, and the mine still has a hold on everyone who lives there.Ĭlem and Nina form a perfect loop-best friends forever, and perhaps something more. But life in New Basin is just as fraught. The disaster made it impossible to live in town, with underground fires spewing ash into the sky. It started when an explosion in the mine killed sixteen people. Moon Basin has been haunted for as long as anyone can remember. Debut voice Alison Ames delivers with a chilling, feminist thriller, perfect for fans of Wilder Girls and Sawkill Girls. ![]()
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![]() For the first time, Christopher Frayling also explores the development of the vampire in the visual arts in four colour-plate sections, with illustrations ranging from 18th-century prints to 21st-century film stills, demonstrating the enduring appeal of the vampire from popular press to fine art and, finally, to film. This revised and expanded edition brings Vampyres up to date with 21st-century vampire literature, including new text extracts, commentary and a revised introduction. Frayling recounts the most significant moments in gothic history, while extracts from a huge range of sources – including Bram Stoker’s detailed research notes for Dracula, penny dreadfuls and Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, new to this edition – are contextualized and analysed. Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection: from Count Dracula to Vampirella Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection: from Count. Vampyres is a comprehensive and generously illustrated history and anthology of vampires in literature, from the folklore of Eastern Europe to the Romantics and beyond. Christopher Frayling has spent 45 years exploring the history of one of the most enduring figures in the history of mass culture – the vampire. ![]() |