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Recent Book Reviews

Dying to Meet You
Title: 43 Old Cemetery Road: Dying to Meet You
Author: Kate Klise
Review: A funny tale told in letters, newspaper articles and drawings of a grumpy children's book author who rents a summer home already occupied by a sullen boy and elderly ghost that really don't want him, or anyone, to be living there....Dying to Meet You
Rating: Liked It
Fairy Tale Detectives
Title: The FairyTale Detectives
Author: Michael Buckley
Review: If you like fairy tale retellings and funny literary twists to stories, you'll like this book. The inhabitants of Ferryport Landing include Everafters, characters from Fairy Tales, children's nursery rhymes and characters from classic childrens's literature, and humans who have lived together since the days of the Brother's Grimm writing their story collection. But now tensions are mounting as Sabrina and Daphne Grimm's grandmother is taken by a Giant and they must follow the clues to find her....Fairy Tale Detectives
Rating: Loved It!
Return to Sender
Title: Return to Sender
Author: Julia Alvarez
Review: Tyler begins to understand that Mari's situation as an illegal immigrant farm worker is more complicated than just being "wrong" because of the law. ...Return to Sender
Rating: Liked It
Anything But Typical
Title: Anything But Typical
Author: Nora Raleigh Baskin
Review: Get inside the head and experiences of an autistic boy who loves to write and wants to find connections to the world around him....Anything But Typical
Rating: Liked It