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Spotlight & Giveaway for Ava XOX by Carol Weston, with Special Guest Post!
Welcome to a special feature spotlighting Ava XOX, the third book in Carol Weston’s middle grade series Ava and Pip! Carol Weston’s Ava and Pip series follows fifth-grader Ava Elle Wren as she navigates her way through various highs and lows at home, at school and with friends. A s-p-e-c-t-a-c-u-l-a-r speller, aspiring author, younger sister, Read more
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Spotlight and Giveaway: Bob Shea’s Ballet Cat series!
Welcome to a special post featuring Bob Shea’s Ballet Cat books and a very cool and generous giveaway, courtesy of Disney-Hyperion! Read on to find out more about the series and how you can enter to win a prize pack featuring everything Ballet Cat. Bob Shea, author and illustrator of terrific and fun picture books Read more
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Review: Boys Don’t Knit Series by T.S. Easton
Your eyes do not deceive you: I am indeed posting about T.S. Easton and his Boys Don’t Knit series twice in one week! Just a few days ago, I posted about how much I was looking forward to reading the second book in the series, and…now I have! I wanted to give a bit of Read more
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Great Picture Books! (9): Mother Bruce, Dear Yeti, Lost. Found., Wild & Little Elliot, Big Family
I have had the great fortune of reading another great batch of picture books in the last while! The following five are all ones I would definitely recommend: Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins Publication: November 24, 2015 by Disney-Hyperion Author and illustrator Higgins has knocked it out of the stratosphere with Mother Bruce. Inventive, Read more
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Review: Killing Trail by Margaret Mizushima
Review: Killing Trail (A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery) by Margaret Mizushima Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Crooked Lane Books. Thank you! Publication: December 8, 2015 by Crooked Lane Books Verdict: Very Good Book Description: When a young girl is found dead in the mountains outside Timber Creek, life-long resident Officer Mattie Cobb and her partner, K-9 Read more
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Review: Pippa Morgan’s Diary by Annie Kelsey
Review: Pippa Morgan’s Diary by Annie Kelsey Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Sourcebooks Jabberwocky. Thank you! Publication: December 1, 2015 by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Verdict: Very Good Book Description: Sometimes a little white lie can land you in a whole lot of trouble… Pippa’s new BFF Catie Brown is perfect. So perfect, that Pippa tells her a Read more
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Review: The Scorpion Rules (Prisoners of Peace #1) by Erin Bow
Happy New Year everyone! Thank you to all you lovely readers and visitors to my site; thank you for stopping by, liking, following or commenting. I am getting right back into the swing of things for 2016 with a review of a recently released young adult title from Erin Bow! Review: The Scorpion Rules (Prisoners Read more
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Review & Giveaway! How to Be Brave by E. Katherine Kottaras
Review: How to Be Brave by E. Katherine Kottaras Source: Hardcopy courtesy of St. Martin’s Press & Kaye Publicity, Inc. Thank you! Publication: November 3, 2015 by St. Martin’s Press Verdict: Good/Very Good Book Description: An emotional contemporary YA novel about love, loss, and having the courage to chase the life you truly want. Reeling Read more
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EVERY WORD Blog Tour, Day Four: Review of Ellie Marney’s Every Word
Welcome to day four of the Tundra Books sponsored Blog Tour for Ellie Marney‘s Every Word! Today on Fab Book Reviews, I am featuring a review of Every Word, the second book in the Every series from author Ellie Marney! Review: Every Word (Every Breath #2) by Ellie Marney Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Tundra Read more
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Great Picture Books! (8)
2015 is (I cannot believe it) slowly but surely coming to an end, but the roster of terrific picture books is not slowing down! Here’s a rundown of some of the recently read great picture book titles I have read and would recommend: The Cow Who Climbed a Tree by Gemma Merino. I love Merino’s Read more
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