Audiobooks with Voiceover Talent Jesse Vilinsky

We've tried to bring all aspects of writing onto our site. We've had agents, editors, illustrators, and authors. Today, we are lucky enough to have an award winning (The Agony House, 2019 Earphones Award Winner) voiceover talent Jesse Vilinsky. With a degree in Theater from University of Southern California, Jesse's voice has been showcased on TV, film, video games, and audiobooks. She took some time away from the microphone to answer a few questions. Middle Grade [...]

By |2020-04-12T09:05:24-04:00April 2nd, 2020|Mo Writing|0 Comments

Hurricane Season by Nicole Melleby

Fig, a sixth grader, loves her dad and the home they share in a beachside town. She does not love the long months of hurricane season. Her father, a once-renowned piano player, sometimes goes looking for the music in the middle of a storm. Hurricane months bring unpredictable good and bad days. More than anything, Fig wants to see the world through her father’s eyes, so she takes an art class to experience life as [...]

By |2020-04-22T12:18:15-04:00March 24th, 2020|Book Launch|0 Comments

The Light in the Lake by Sarah R. Baughman

Baughman’s debut is a powerful story about family, friendship and the different ways to process grief. When Addie’s twin brother drowns in Maple Lake, her parents withdraw choosing to deal with their grief alone away from the lake. Addie does the opposite. Determined to prove her brother’s theory that a mysterious creature lives in the lake, she joins a scientific team doing work there. She soon discovers there may be a connection between what Amos [...]

By |2020-04-22T12:36:06-04:00February 19th, 2020|Book Review, Mo Reading|0 Comments

CUB by Cynthia L. Copeland

Hot off the press is a fun middle grade novel about a seventh-grade girl who finds her voice working as a cub reporter. A quasi-memoir by New York Times bestselling author, Cynthia L. Copeland, CUB is about her own experience in middle school navigating muddy social waters, friendships and pursuing her goal of becoming a real reporter. Although set in the 1970s, the content is very relavent to today's young girls and educates them about [...]

By |2020-04-22T12:37:23-04:00February 4th, 2020|Book Review, Mo Reading|0 Comments

Homerooms & Hall Passes by Tom O’Donnell

Homerooms & Hall Passes (HarperCollins) is another hysterically funny and creative story by author Tom O'Donnell. He's taken the concept of getting sucked into a video game (aka Jumanji) and flipped it on it's head. In Homerooms & Hall Passes, the main characters are heros from the mystical realm of Briandalor. By day, they battle vile monsters and evil wizards and by night (at least once a week) they gather for a role-playing game called Homerooms & [...]

By |2020-04-22T12:37:45-04:00January 29th, 2020|Book Review, Mo Reading|1 Comment

A Long Pitch Home by Natalie Dias Lorenzi

A Long Pitch Home by Natalie Dias Lorenzi, is a story about Bilal, a ten-year-old boy from Pakistan, who is suddenly forced to move with his mother and three younger siblings to America. They move-in with their extended family in Virginia while they wait for their father to join them. Bilal talks regularly with his father and they compare the differences between the two countries. Bilal doesn't want to forget his home country of Pakistan and [...]

By |2020-04-22T12:43:52-04:00January 22nd, 2020|Book Review, Mo Reading|0 Comments

A Time Traveler’s Theory of Relativity by Nicole Valentine

What if you could inherit the ability to time travel? Finn’s mother is gone again. He’s not surprised. She hasn’t been herself since his twin sister died. When his grandmother tells him a secret: the women in their family can time travel, he wonders if his mother isn’t so much running away as unable to come back. How can he help her? Only females inherit the ability to time travel. Determined to find her he [...]

By |2020-04-22T12:45:21-04:00November 11th, 2019|Book Review, Mo Reading|0 Comments

A Drop of Hope by Keith Calabrese

Sometimes even magic needs a helping hand. Times are tough in the town of Cliffs Donnelly. Factories are closing and people are losing hope. When Earnest happens to over hear someone making a wish near the old well said to grant wishes he gets the idea to give away one of the toys he found in his late grandfather’s attic. A series of small acts of kindness soon add up to something big. Earnest makes [...]

By |2020-04-22T12:44:31-04:00October 23rd, 2019|Book Review, Mo Reading|0 Comments

Remarkables by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Review by Sherry Ellis When ten-year-old Marin moves from Illinois to Pennsylvania, she's sad. Friends are left behind, damaged friendships remain broken, and there is uncertainty with what the future holds. As she explores her new home, she discovers a house behind hers. A house that seems to be the center of activity where the teenagers are happy. But then the teenagers disappear. Are they ghosts from a tragedy that occurred twenty years in the [...]

By |2020-04-22T12:46:10-04:00October 18th, 2019|Book Review, Mo Reading|0 Comments

Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

Faced with the impossible choice of saving the last dragon in Kievan Rus or her family from an anti-Semitic magistrate, 11-year-old Anya chooses to be brave and stand up against the misconceptions of an entire village to do what is right. Pasternack does an amazing job building a rich world for her story of Jewish traditions, Russian folklore, and a host of magical creatures that will satisfy any reader's appetite. The story takes place in [...]

By |2020-04-22T12:46:50-04:00October 8th, 2019|Book Review, Mo Reading|0 Comments
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