Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenge. Miranda is a pretty typical teenager living with her adoptive parents in a small college town in western Massachusetts. She was born in Romania, but has little memory of life there before Rachel and Stanley saw her and took her away. What she doesn’t know […]
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenge. Peri has lost both her parents to the Sea – her father when he left one morning in his fishing boat, and her mother, because she has never stopped waiting for Peri’s father to come home, and no longer lives in quite the same world
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV and 2010 YA Reading Challenges. Enna Burning is the second book in Shannon Hale’s Bayern series, picking up after the events of The Goose Girl. The Goose Girl is based on the fairy tale, but the books after it continue with the stories of some of the
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Read for the 2010 Complete Booker Challenge. Black Swan Green is a year in the life of Jason Taylor, a thirteen-year-old growing up in a small Worcestershire village in the early 80s. I really enjoyed this book. It had a very different tone than the other book I’d read by this author (Cloud Atlas), though
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenge. Evie Scelan is a bike messenger in Boston who also happens to have a supernatural nose that makes her very handy at finding things. Just a few weeks earlier (as chronicled in the first book of this series, Spiral Hunt), she played a large roll
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Aurora Teagarden is a librarian in an Atlanta suburb that may be near the city, but is still a small town. She also happens to be a member of the Real Murders club, which gets together to discuss famous murders. It seems like a harmless pastime until Roe one day arrives early at the monthly
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenge. Niviene is of the Fey, and unlike most of those mysterious people, lives with her family: her mother Nimway, the Lady of the Lake, and her brother Lugh, on the magical island of Avalon. The mage Merlin is a frequent visitor to the island, where
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Read for the YA 2010 and Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenges. Abdullah is a carpet merchant in the Zanzib bazaar, leading a fairly humble life, until the day a stranger sells him a magic carpet. It’s a rather threadbare, unattractive carpet, but it transports him to a beautiful garden where he meets the
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Read for the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge. When the Earl of Rule decides to marry, his sister suggests the lovely Lizzie Winwood. Lizzie agrees to the match, but is in love with another, a penniless officer. So Lizzie’s youngest sister Horatia comes up with a plan – she will marry the Earl, and let Lizzie
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It’s Spring again, so it’s time for the fourth Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge. Once again, I’ll be doing Quest the First, which is to read five books in the following categories: Fantasy, Folklore, Fairy Tale and Mythology. Unlike past years, I’m not going to preplan a reading list. I’ve got a ton of
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