In Fly With Me by Andie Burke, Olive is a nurse who is terrified of flying. Her first time on an airplane is awful, but when a fellow passenger has a medical emergency, she jumps into action and saves his life. However, people are filming her, and the video of what she did gets put …
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Book Review | Family Lore
Well, this was a surprising read. In Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo, the Marte family has known that many of them have special abilities. One can tell when people are lying, one is great at herbalism — and Flor has dreams that tell her when someone is going to die. So when she decides to …
Book Review | To Shape a Dragon’s Breath
Okay, the internet is wrong. If you read just one dragon book this year, don’t read Fourth Wing. Read this instead! (Like, Fourth Wing was okay, but it pales in comparison to this.) In To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose, fifteen-year-old Anequs has grown up on the island of Masquapaug. This place hasn’t …
Book Review | The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley
In Courtney Walsh’s novel The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley, Isadora prefers to keep to herself. She never does anything social, doesn’t date anymore, and doesn’t have friends. It’s easier this way. But one day she sees a magazine with an article about how to be happy, and thinks it’s ridiculous. There’s not a formula …
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Book Review | A Most Agreeable Murder
This is like if Jane Austen wrote a murder mystery. And what’s not to like about that? In A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales, Beatrice Steele has often balked at the rules of her strict society in Swampshire, being less ladylike than most people would prefer her to be. She also, secretly, has been …