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December 17, 2018
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill | Middle Grade Review

Published by Algonquin Young Readers on August 9, 2016
Genres: Middle Grade
Pages: 388
Format: Hard Cover
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Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and a Perfectly Tiny Drago...
October 20, 2018
Hocus Pocus & The All-New Sequel | Young Adult Fantasy Book Review

Published by Freeform on July 10, 2018
Genres: Young Adult
Pages: 521
Format: Hard Cover
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Hocus Pocus is beloved by Halloween enthusiasts all over the world. Diving once more into the world of witches, this electrifying two-part young adult novel, released on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1993 film, marks a new era of Hocus Pocus. Fans will be spellbound by a fresh retelling of the original film, followed by th...
October 11, 2018
Amazon Prime Book Box for Kids
Format: Hard Cover
Are you looking for a new way to inspire reading in your child? Or maybe expand their library with new and exciting authors? Amazon now has a monthly subscription book box for young readers – Amazon Prime Book Box for Kids.
What You ReceiveEvery month, Amazon’s Editors choose from the many highly-rated titles they read throughout the year and compile boxes to be shipped straight to your door. Each box is sorted into an age range :
Baby to 2 year...October 2, 2018
Heart of Thorns by Bree Barton – Young Adult Fantasy Review

Series: Heart of Thorns #1
Published by Katherine Tegen Books on July 31, 2018
Genres: Young Adult
Pages: 438
Format: Hard Cover
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Inventive and heart-racing, this fiercely feminist teen fantasy trilogy from debut author Bree Barton examines a dark kingdom in which only women can possess magic—and every woman is suspected of having it.
Mia Rose wants only one thing: revenge against the Gwyrach—feared, reviled, an...
September 25, 2018
Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly | Young Adult Fantasy Review

Published by Disney-Hyperion on May 6, 2014
Genres: Young Adult
Pages: 340
Format: Hard Cover
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Serafina, daughter of Isabella, Queen of Miromara, has been raised with the expectation - and burden - that she will someday become ruler of the oldest civilization of the merfolk. On the eve of the Dokimí ceremony, which will determine if she is worthy of the crown, Sera is haunted by a strange dream that foretells the...
May 30, 2018
Echo Dot Kids Edition Review
About a month ago, I purchased the Echo Dot Kids Edition (Green) for my two kids. Mainly, it was for my 4 year-old who loves to dance and ask lots of questions. We have the regular Echo Dot in our living room, so she’s familiar with how it works. This version allows her to use Alexa safely without us, her parents, fearing she’ll access adult skills and music with explicit lyrics.
For those of you not familiar with the Echo Dot, it’s a small device that allows you to access information and ap...
May 24, 2018
First Chapters – All of This is True – Lygia Day Penaflor

Published by Bloomsbury on May 31, 2018
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary Romance
Pages: 421
Format: eBook
Source: First 5
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Miri Tan loved the book Undertow like it was a living being. So when she and her friends went to a book signing to meet the author, Fatima Ro, they concocted a plan to get close to her, even if her friends won’t admit it now. As for Jonah, well—Miri knows none of that was Fatima’s fault.
Soleil Johnston wan...
May 15, 2018
Firstlife (An Everlife Novel) – Gena Showalter | Young Adult Fantasy

Published by Harlequin Teen on February 23, 2016
Genres: Fantasy
Pages: 467
Format: Hard Cover
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Step one...you die.
ONE CHOICE. TWO REALMS. NO SECOND CHANCE.
Tenley "Ten" Lockwood is an average seventeen-year-old girl…who has spent the past thirteen months locked inside the Prynne Asylum. The reason? Not her obsession with numbers, but her refusal to let her parents choose where she’ll live — after she dies. There is an e...
April 28, 2018
Mars One – Jonathan Maberry | Young Adult Sci-fi Review

Published by Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers on April 4, 2017
Genres: Young Adult
Pages: 448
Format: Hard Cover
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Tristan has known that he and his family were going to be on the first mission to colonize Mars since he was twelve years old, and he has been training ever since. However, knowing that he would be leaving for Mars with no plan to return didn’t stop him from falling in love with Izzy.
But now, at sixteen, it’s time to...
April 11, 2018
Scythe – Neal Shusterman | Young Adult Sci-fi Review

Series: ,
Published by Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers on November 28, 2017
Genres: Young Adult
Pages: 435
Format: Hard Cover
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Two teens must learn the “art of killing” in this Printz Honor–winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.
A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conque...
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