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Jacob Devlin

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Young Adult, Fantasy

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Italo Calvino, Rick Riordan, Lewis Carroll, Carlo Collodi, J.M. Barrie

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Jacob grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and he has been writing in different capacities ever since he could hold a crayon. Today he has published seven books, including Roses in the Dragon’s Den, which won a Reader’s Favorite Silver Medal in 2020. His books tend to explore the themes of family, youth empowerment, and finding magic in our backyards. While he refers to his writing career as his “five-to-nine life”, he believes stories are essential to every aspect of his work, his hobbies, and his community.

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Average rating: 4.04 · 254 ratings · 141 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Carver (Order of the Bell, #1) 3.90 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unseen (Order of the Bell, #2) 3.82 avg rating — 49 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roses in the Dragon's Den 4.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hummingbird (Order of the Bell, #3) 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ivory Queen (Order of the Bell, #1.5) 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Godfather Death, M.D. 4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2024 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Max Macabre and the Immovables 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brambles in the Wishing Well it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Thousand Dreadful Curses it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I thought I’d share a bit of non-fiction today, and I confess I’ve debated posting this for a long time! I read a craft book recently that said, “Nobody wants to hear your travel stories and how much fun you had on your vacation,” and I think that deterred me from sharing this… But, the same book also said that people want to hear the stories that change you, and where they can take a journey with

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Espíritu (Cemetery Boys, #2)

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They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)

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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

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“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

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