Tag: juvenile fiction
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Genre: Realistic Fiction Series? No Audience Age: 7-9 Rating (1-5): 4 The story in no more than five sentences: Dani, a girl who is about to start Kindergarten, lives with just her dad and their cat since her mom passed away. She is very nervous about starting school, but becomes much happier after she befriends…
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Genre: Comedy Series? No Audience Age: 8-11 Rating (1-5): 3 The story in no more than five sentences: Frank and his family have moved to a new town again because his older sister Elizabeth suffers from Formus Disappearus, meaning that she is invisible. Because of her condition, she rarely adjusts well to new social environments…
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Genre: Adventure Series? No Audience Age: 10-12 Rating (1-5): 3 The story in no more than five sentences: When Henri’s father goes missing on an expedition to British Malaya, he is sent to live with his Great Aunt Georgie where he discovers that he possesses an extraordinary power: he has the ability to talk with…
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Plot: Joey Pigza is a boy who has ADHD. He pulls out his hair, he spins through the hallways at school, and snatches flies out of the air. His home life exacerbates his condition. His father, who is an alcoholic, left when he was in kindergarten and his mother followed right…
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Plot: Jeffrey Magee is a an orphaned boy who blows into the town of Two Mills, Pennsylvania (a fictional place) one afternoon. Within the first day he has already made an impression on the neighborhood. He butts into an ongoing little league game and hits line drives off of ace pitcher John McNab. He strays…
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Maybe you’ve been to that small wonder of the state of Delaware a time or two. Perhaps you even reside there. But you’ve never been to the one as crafted by M.T. Anderson in Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware. This Delaware is “a realm of wonders and terrors, a land that time…
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I continue my Oz reading with this second installment of Baum’s fantastical world. I know that I’ll read at least one more if not two in the series. Plot: Let’s get one thing out of the way: Dorothy is not in this one. Our story opens in the Country of the Gillikins, the northern land…
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Any children’s librarian worth her salt (or his salt, in my case) needs to be familiar with L. Frank Baum’s classic The Wizard of Oz. For my part, I have decided recently to read at least the first 3 or 4 books in the series. I wanted to move beyond the initial book that Hollywood…
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