Reviews
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Review: Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham
Review: Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Penguin Random House Canada via First Reads. Thank you! Publication: March 25, 2014 by Ballantine Books (Trade Paperback edition) Book Description: It’s January 1995, and Franny Banks has just six months left of the three-year deadline she set for herself when she came to… Read more
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Board Book Look (3): Flora and the Chicks & Little Oink
Review: Flora and the Chicks: A Counting Book by Molly Idle Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: March 7, 2017 by Chronicle Books Book Description: Inspired by the main character of the Caldecott Honor book Flora and the Flamingo, this new series of board books is perfect for the very youngest Flora… Read more
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Review: Time of Death (A Stillwater General Mystery #1) by Lucy Kerr
Review: Time of Death (A Stillwater General Mystery #1) by Lucy Kerr Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Crooked Lane Books. Thank you! Publication: December 13, 2016 by Crooked Lane Books Book Description: Twelve years ago, Frankie Stapleton left the quiet town of Stillwater and moved to Chicago, leaving behind her family, their struggling hardware store, and… Read more
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Review: Stalking Ground (A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery #2) by Margaret Mizushima
Review: Stalking Ground (A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery #2) by Margaret Mizushima Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Crooked Lane Books. Thank you! Publication: September 13, 2016 by Crooked Lane Books Book Description: When Deputy Ken Brody’s sweetheart goes missing in the mountains outside Timber Creek, Mattie Cobb and Robo are called to search. But it’s mid-October… Read more
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Blog Tour Stop: Fish Girl by David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli
Welcome to one of the stops (the last one!) on the Raincoast Books blog tour for David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli’s graphic novel Fish Girl! Please read on for my thoughts as well as a look inside the book… Fish Girl by David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli Source: ARC courtesy of Raincoast Books.… Read more
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Picture Book Review: The King of the Birds by Acree Graham Macam & Natalie Nelson
Review: The King of the Birds by Acree Graham Macam, illus. Natalie Nelson Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press. Thank you! Publication: September 2016 by Groundwood Books Book Description: In this picture book, inspired by the life of Flannery O’Connor, a young fan of fowl brings home a peacock to be… Read more
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Review: Armstrong & Charlie by Steven B. Frank
Review: Armstrong & Charlie by Steven B. Frank Source: ARC courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Expected publication: March 7, 2017 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Book Description: Charlie isn’t looking forward to sixth grade. If he starts sixth grade, chances are he’ll finish it. And when he does, he’ll grow older than the brother he… Read more
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Review: The Other F-Word by Natasha Friend
dReview: The Other F-Word by Natasha Friend Source: ARC courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Expected publication: March 7, 2017 by Farrar Straus & Giroux Book Description: Hollis Darby-Barnes has never met her father, but she hates him. For making her feel like a lab experiment, a half-person, a freak. Sometimes she fantasizes about tracking the guy… Read more
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Review: Optimists Die First by Susin Nielsen
Review: Optimists Die First by Susin Nielsen Source: ARC courtesy of Susin Nielsen and Tundra Books/Penguin Random House Canada. Thank you! Expected publication: February 21, 2017 by Tundra Books Book Description: Petula’s funny, and a crafting genius, but no social star at high school, and it doesn’t help that she’s isolated herself after her adored… Read more
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