★★★ ½ Nothing you love is lost Jeremy Thatch is NOT having a good day. He gets chased by Howard and Freddie, Mary Lou tried to kiss him AND he manages to get lost in his own neighborhood. At least, the shop he's wandered into looks pretty cool. There's all sorts of dangerous and mysterious… Continue reading Jeremy Thatcher – Bruce Coville
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The Monster’s Ring – Bruce Coville, Katherine Coville (illustrator)
★★★ To change yourself into a hideous monsters, place the ring on the ring finger of your right hand...Use with caution, and never on the night of a full moon. Russell Crannaker is constantly being babied by his mom and bullied by the kids at school. He's SO SICK of it! He wishes - for once -… Continue reading The Monster’s Ring – Bruce Coville, Katherine Coville (illustrator)
Diary of a Fairy Godmother – Esmé Raji Codell & Drazen Kozjan (illustrator)
★★★★ "...she'll be the wickedest witch wherever the four winds blow." Throughout Hunky Dory's life, that's all her mother said. But as she's nearing a hundred years old and finally (FINALLY) graduating school, Hunky Dory has to determine what she'll be for the rest of her witch-y life. But the more she ponders upon it, the less… Continue reading Diary of a Fairy Godmother – Esmé Raji Codell & Drazen Kozjan (illustrator)
Christopher Pumpkin – Sue Hendra, Paul Linnet, Nick East
★★★★★ The witch raised her wand for one final go. There were SPARKLES and GLITTER... A creepy old witch wants to throw a party - the biggest and bestest and scariest party yet. But that's far too much for one old witch to do. So she brings a few pumpkins to life to help, like: Gnarly,… Continue reading Christopher Pumpkin – Sue Hendra, Paul Linnet, Nick East
Relatively Dead – Sheila Connolly
★ More like Relatively Dreadful. This one was So. Freaking. Boring. Abby Kimball, enthusiastically unemployed, moved with her boyfriend, Brad, to New England for Brad's career. Brad encourages her to explore her new town and get to know people in the area. So, reluctantly...Abby leaves the apartment. She didn't want to be here. But Brad had told her she… Continue reading Relatively Dead – Sheila Connolly
The Beloved Dearly – Doug Cooney & Tony DiTerlizzi
★★★ ½ With decisive air, Ernie flipped open his jobs notebook, turned to a blank page, and wrote down the word funerals. Ernie is the idea-man. The trouble-maker. The too-clever-for-his-own-good kid. And lately, all he can think about is: "The bank, the beans, the jimmy, the jive. The moola, the greenbacks, the dead presidents!" Ernie cried.… Continue reading The Beloved Dearly – Doug Cooney & Tony DiTerlizzi
Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn
★★★★★ Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. Camille Preaker is back in her hometown but for all the wrong reasons. She just got out of a psych hospital and her next reporting assignment? To cover the murders of two preteens who lived in her town. Problems… Continue reading Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn
Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes – Karin Slaughter
★★ The only reason my daughter has not come home is because someone is keeping her. Keeping her.” Julia Carroll sees the news everywhere - young women go missing at a steady rate. And she knows, statistically, it's likely to happen again. As it bothers her - the fact that no one is talking about what's happening to all… Continue reading Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes – Karin Slaughter
Daughters Unto Devils – Amy Lukavics
★★ ½ I'm starting to believe that hell is everywhere. Amanda Verner, sixteen, lives with her parents and siblings in a remote mountainside cabin. The last winter was absolutely terrible. Amanda's sickly mother was pregnant and began wasting away. Mom gave birth to a blind and deaf child who cries...and cries...and cries... Amanda went stir crazy… Continue reading Daughters Unto Devils – Amy Lukavics
Gunslinger Girl – Lyndsay Ely
★★ Welcome to Cessation, Serendipity Jones. The last place on the continent where you can do whatever the hell you want. Serendipity "Pity" Jones is a seventeen-year-old gunslinger in a futuristic wild west world. Her mother lived on a commune and raised three children with a man she abhorred. Pity's mother did her best in a bad… Continue reading Gunslinger Girl – Lyndsay Ely
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