by Retired Reviewer | Aug 8, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Tweens
If you like unusual sentences, people who often don’t make sense – or make more sense than not – and short stories that stretch the entire book, then this is your new favorite book. File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents is about Lemony Snicket, who is called...
by Retired Reviewer | Jul 29, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science Fiction, Tweens
Sophie and Agatha are very much opposites. Sophie just knows she is fit to be a queen; she’s pretty, loves fancy things and worries about her looks. Agatha, who is not pretty and doesn’t like dresses or being fussed over, is everything that Sophie is not. When they...
by Retired Reviewer | Jul 28, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction, Tweens
Togo was the runt of the litter of Husky puppies who started out very sick. All of his brothers were being trained how to pull a sled and mush, but he was always overlooked because he was too small. He does whatever it takes to prove he can be a sled dog and more than...
by Retired Reviewer | Jul 22, 2014 | Science Fiction, Tweens
The first thing you will notice about your copy of The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates: Magic Marks the Spot is the torn edges of the pages and all of the old-fashioned drawings of written letters, though I’m not sure what some of it said because it was...
by Retired Reviewer | Jul 14, 2014 | Science Fiction, Tweens
This books starts right where book one stopped. Babylon is where Jack, Marco, Aly and Cass must travel to this time in order to find the second loculus needed to save their kind from death. This book definitely makes you think a little harder while reading, as you...