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Guest Post + Giveaway: Derek Taylor Kent, author of Scary School!
Hello bookish friends, and welcome to another guest post featuring another awesome author! As you know, I’m a huge fan of Middle Grade books. I adore the giggles, the life lessons, and all the characters that I meet whilst I travel these adventures. It’s no lie that I especially love those books that are able to captivate readers of all ages and Scary School does this perfectly! I’ll stop rambling now and let Derek take the wheel! He’s here to share a guest post about his path to making his Scary School adventures a reality that he was able to…
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Book Review: The Northern Frights
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Northern Frights *Series: Scary School #3 Author: Derek the Ghost Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: Ebook; 272 Release Date: July 1, 2013 Source: Author ————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Fantasy Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers, both young and old, who enjoy a silly and adventure driven story with amazing characters! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N In The Northern Frights, the third book in the spooky Scary School series, Charles “New Kid” Nukid and his friends, including Lattie, a girl ninja, must fight an epic battle…
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Book Review: Monsters on the March (Scary School #2)
Media Type: Print Book Title: Monsters on the March * Series: Scary School #2 Author: Derek the Ghost Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: Hardcover; 256 Release Date: June 26, 2012 Source: Author ————————————————- Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love to reads that are a bit creepy and a whole lot of fun! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N As winners of last year’s Ghoul Games, the students of Scary School are off to Monster Forest. School may be scary, but the forest has a few frights of its own,…
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Book Review: The Battle for Princess Madeline
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Battle for Princess Madeline Author: Kirstin Pulioff Publisher: Self-published Pages: Kindle; 156 Release Date: May 2013 Source: Prism Book Tours ———————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy sweet and short Fantasy reads Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N The Kingdom of Soron bustled with activity as preparations for the Fall Festival began. Lively merchants, hardworking farmers, and musicians eagerly awaited this event of harvest and joy. This year’s festival was even more important, as they celebrated Princess Madeline’s betrothal to her…
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What’s Your Animal Totem?: A Guest Post by H.B. Bolton
Please welcome H.B. Bolton to the blog! Touring with her newest book in the Relics of Mysticus series, The Trickster’s Totem, H.B. is here to share with you some of the myth behind the story! What’s Your Animal Totem? Animal totems instruct and protect each of us as we learn how to navigate through our life’s journey. They are with us for a period of time and then are replaced by another animal, depending on the direction we are headed. The notion of our being guided by an animal is not limited to Native American beliefs. In fact, similar totemlike…
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Book Review: The Trickster’s Totem
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Trickster’s Totem * Series: Relics of Mysticus Author: H.B. Bolton Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 226 Release Date: April 15, 2013 Source: Author ————————————————— Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love a good adventure story with young protagonists Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Life has returned to normal for fourteen-year-old Evan and his older sister, Claire. That is until Dunkle, a clever but stinky little imp, pays an unexpected visit to their school. He has come to take the siblings…
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Book Review: New Lands
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: New Lands * Series: The Chronicles of Egg #2 Author: Geoff Rodkey Publisher: Putnam Juvenile Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: May 2, 2013 Source: Publisher ———————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of the series, as well as readers who love a good adventure story! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N After a narrow escape from Deadweather Island, Egg and his slightly deranged partner Guts head for the remote New Lands. They’re in search of the lost Okalu tribe, who hold…
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Book Review: Deadweather and Sunrise
Media Type: Print Book Title: Deadweather and Sunrise * Series: The Chronicles of Egg #1 Author: Geoff Rodkey Publisher: Putnam Juvenile Pages: Hardcover; 288 Release Date: May 29, 2012 Source: Publisher —————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy stories with characters who are put into impossible situations! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N A stunning middle-grade debut–full of heart, humor, and nonstop action. It’s tough to be thirteen, especially when somebody’s trying to kill you. Not that Egg’s life was ever easy, growing up on…
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Book Review: Professor Gargoyle
Media Type: Print Book Title: Professor Gargoyle *Series: Tales From Lovecraft Middle School #1 Author: Charles Gilman Publisher: Quirk Books Pages: Hardcover; 168 Release Date: September 25, 2012 Source: Publisher ————————————————————– Content Screening: Mild Cartoonish Violence HDB Rating: Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love a good giggle! I think this is the Wayside School of the new generation. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Strange things are happening at Lovecraft Middle School. Rats are leaping from lockers. Students are disappearing. The school library is a labyrinth of secret corridors. And the science…
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Book Review: Destiny, Rewritten
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Destiny, Rewritten Author: Kathryn Fitzmaurice Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Pages: Hardcover; 352 Release Date: February 19, 2013 Source: Eidelweiss ————————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love smart, quirky female characters. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Eleven-year-old Emily Elizabeth Davis has been told for her entire life that her destiny is to become a poet, just like her famous namesake, Emily Dickinson. But Emily doesn’t even really like poetry, and she has a secret career ambition that she suspects her…