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

MG Book Review: A Pocket Full of Stars by Aisha Bushby

MG Book Review: A Pocket Full of Stars by Aisha Bushby   Aisha Bushby’s debut is pure magic. Safiya feels like her life is crumbing. She and her mother have nothing in common. Safiya loves video games and her mother is obsessed with theatre. She doesn’t see her father much anymore since her parents got divorced and her best friend pays more attention to boys than her. Can things get any worse? When her mother [...]

By |2020-04-09T21:48:58-04:00January 15th, 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

Shadow School #1: Archimancy by J.A. White

Just in time for the Halloween season comes a ghostly new novel from J.A. White called Shadow School #1: Archimancy. It’s a wonderfully spooky book for middle grade readers that won't get them checking under their beds at night. Cordelia started a new school in an old house where no one is allowed in after dark. She soon realizes that ghosts are walking the halls and haunting the classrooms, but only her and a reluctant, new [...]

By |2020-04-22T12:46:22-04:00October 14th, 2019|Book Launch, 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

The Dark Lord Clementine by Sara Jean Horwitz

JUMP ABOARD THE BLOG TOUR Congratulations to Sarah Jean Horwitz on the October release of this soon to be classic. Twelve-year-old Clementine Morcerous always thought she’d become a Dark Overlord like her father. Strong. Ruthless. Evil. She’s studied the spells and read the books.  She’s ready. But fate has other plans. When a witch curses her father she must find a way to save him. She turns to magical animals, witches and boys who will [...]

By |2020-04-22T12:47:00-04:00October 7th, 2019|Book Review, Mo Reading|1 Comment

She’s the Liar by Alison Cherry

Congratulations to Alison Cherry on her latest release, She's the Liar (Scholastic Press). This middle grade book is about two sisters who transfer to a new boarding school where nobody knows them. Each sister sees this as an opportunity to reinvent themselves into someone they'd rather be, but neither knows of the other's plan.  Having a hard time making friends at her old school, shy Abby, reinvents herself as an outgoing, confident sixth grader and [...]

By |2020-04-22T12:47:22-04:00July 12th, 2019|Book Launch, Book Review, Mo Reading|0 Comments
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