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Review of The Lock-Eater
The Lock-Eater by Zack Loran ClarkIntermediate, Middle School Dial 368 pp. g1/22 978-1-9848-1688-7 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-9848-1689-4 $10.99When a gearling (a mechanical clockwork man) shows up at the orphanage in search of an apprentice for his witch mistress, Melanie Gate (an orphan with a talent for opening locked things) embarks on...
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Review of A Thousand Steps into Night
A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci CheeMiddle School, High School Clarion/HarperCollins 384 pp. g3/22 978-0-358-46998-8 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-358-46999-5 $9.99Miuko is clumsy and loud, two qualities that are deemed unfeminine in the (fantastical, Japanese-coded) society she inhabits. While running an errand outside the protective village gates, she meets a demon...
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Review of Into the Bloodred Woods
Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha BrockenbroughHigh School Scholastic 368 pp. g11/21 978-1-338-67387-6 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-338-67389-0 $11.99In this fantasy novel with threads drawn from fairy tales (the non-Disney-fied ones, with all the gore, and then some), Albrecht is the king’s son, but his twin, Ursula, is the firstborn, setting the...
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Review of The Lock-Eater
The Lock-Eater by Zack Loran ClarkIntermediate, Middle School Dial 368 pp. g1/22 978-1-9848-1688-7 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-9848-1689-4 $10.99When a gearling (a mechanical clockwork man) shows up at the orphanage in search of an apprentice for his witch mistress, Melanie Gate (an orphan with a talent for opening locked things) embarks on...
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Review of A Thousand Steps into Night
A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci CheeMiddle School, High School Clarion/HarperCollins 384 pp. g3/22 978-0-358-46998-8 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-358-46999-5 $9.99Miuko is clumsy and loud, two qualities that are deemed unfeminine in the (fantastical, Japanese-coded) society she inhabits. While running an errand outside the protective village gates, she meets a demon...
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Review of Into the Bloodred Woods
Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha BrockenbroughHigh School Scholastic 368 pp. g11/21 978-1-338-67387-6 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-338-67389-0 $11.99In this fantasy novel with threads drawn from fairy tales (the non-Disney-fied ones, with all the gore, and then some), Albrecht is the king’s son, but his twin, Ursula, is the firstborn, setting the...
Review of Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 audiobook
Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918by Albert Marrin; read by Jim FrangioneMiddle School, High School Listening Library Rev. 3/185 CDs 5.75 hrs. 978-1-525-52609-4 $45.00Marrin’s account of the flu pandemic that killed millions of people during World War I, plus modern-day efforts to identify that strain and prevent...
Review of The Penderwicks at Last audiobook
The Penderwicks at Lastby Jeanne Birdsall; read by Susan DenakerIntermediate Listening Library Rev. 7/187 CDs 8.37 hrs. 978-0-525-59559-5 $55.00This closing volume in the beloved Penderwick series, featuring two sisters’ marriages and one’s heartbreak, is told from the point of view of eleven-year-old Lydia, the youngest Penderwick half-sister. Denaker...
Review of Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monsterby Jonathan AuxierIntermediate Amulet/Abrams 358 pp.9/18 978-1-4197-3140-2 $18.99As a “climbing girl” in Victorian London, forced up into dangerous, narrow chimneys to sweep out the soot for her abusive master, Wilkie Crudd, Nan Sparrow leads a miserable life. But she has precious memories...
