#mid-grade

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Title: The Graveyard Book Author: Neil Gaiman Date Added: April 13, 2013 Date Started: August 9, 2018 Date Finished: September 13, 2018 Reading Duration: 35 days Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal/Supernatural, Young Adult (YA), Mid-Grade Pages: 286 Publication Date: September 30, 2008 Publisher: HarperCollins Media: Paperback In this ingenious and captivating reimagining of Rudyard Kipling’s classic…

Reviews for Captain Angus, the Lighthouse Ghost by Wendy Laing

Amazon Reviews:

    5.0 out of 5 stars

Writer Wendy Laing has taken an actual lighthouse where she has been a guest at the lighthouse keeper’s cottage: The Cape Otway in Victoria, Australia as the starting point for her nicely wrought tale, and she has woven an entertaining book of eight chapters for early readers.

Through the magic of a time tunnel children Aaron and Gracie Brandon are taken to…

The Boy in the Mirror by Aleksandra Zajackowski

Tomek is thirteen-years-old, street-smart, lonely and rejected. Orphaned by his immigrant parents, he’s been in one foster home after the other, tossed about like an unwanted toy. After learning his twin brother was abducted but that the search for him was abandoned because the trail was cold, Tomek takes it upon himself to look for his long-lost sibling. Led by a conviction that the missing boy…

James & the Dragon (The Farloft Chronicles #1) by Theresa Snyder

Title: James & the Dragon Series Title: The Farloft Chronicles Author: Theresa Snyder Date Added: February 23, 2016 Date Started: February 15, 2018 Date Finished: February 19, 2018 Reading Duration: 4 days Genre: Fantasy, Mid-Grade/Young Adult (YA), Short Story

Pages: 61 Publication Date: June 21, 2013 Publisher: Self Media: eBook/Kindle

What would you do if you were adopted by a dragon? When ten-year-old…

The Diamond of Darkhold by Jeanne DuPrau (Book of Ember #4)

Book of Ember

<–The Prophet of Yonwood (BOE #3)

Note: Since this is a sequel there are spoilers for the prior book even in the blurb.  Something to keep in mind if you haven’t read the prior books and don’t want to be spoiled.

Second Note:  TSN gets (US) political for comparison.

Title: The Diamond of Darkhold Series Title: Book of Ember Author: Jeanne DuPrau Date Added: September 17, 2017 Date…

The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne DuPrau (The City of Ember #3) (DNF)

Title: The Prophet of Yonwood Series Title: The City of Ember Author: Jeanne DuPrau Date Added: September 17, 2017 Date Started: December 23, 2017 Date DNF: December 27, 2017 Reading Duration: 4 days Genre: Mid-grade/Young Adult (YA), Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian

Pages: 289 Publication Date: April 1, 2006 Publisher: Yearling Edition Media: Paperback

Nickie will grow…

The ones I left behind

It’s Monday? Let’s be negative!

Here are two books I was meant to read and review, but after a couple of tries I simply gave up. Since both of them were from NetGalley I kind of felt obliged to write some kind of reviews, so here they are. I know they are far from being positive, but what can I say?

I received copies of these books from the publishers via NetGalley in exchange for honest reviews.

Squirrels, foxes and Japanese temple maids

Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale (Seasons of the Sword #1) by David Kudler

My rating: 

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I received this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Risuko is a mid-grade novel about a girl taken to become a kunoichi. And what is a kunoichi? Technically it’s only explained at the end of the story, but you can easily figure it out before the new girls get to…