Read for the YA Reading Challenge. Touchmark is a charming YA novel set in Revolutionary War-era Boston. Nabby Jonas is an orphan, and is taken in by the family of a pewterer, not as an apprentice, as she’d like, but as a companion to the crippled daughter Emily. Gradually, Nabby is able to learn the […]
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Read for the YA and RIP III Reading Challenges. Blood and Chocolate is the story of Vivian, a teenage werewolf. Her pack was recently forced to flee their home in West Virginia after a fire that caused the death of the pack leader (her father). They’ve moved to the suburbs in Maryland, and both she
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I finally got around to reading the second of Allison Croggon’s Pellinor books. It was a great, quick read, and I’m definitely enjoying the world she’s built. The story picks up directly after Maerad and Cadvan’s escape from the city of Norloch, and follows our heroes through some of the outer lands of Edil-Amarandh. This
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Read for the YA 2008 Reading Challenge.First Test is the third trilogy set in the land of Tortall (the present day, as it were). In it, we met Keladry of Mindelan, the first girl to openly attempt to become a knight in at least a century in Tortall. This was a sweet book, extremely reminiscent
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Read for the YA Challenge 2008. I love Tamora Pierce. I discovered her when I was actually a member of the YA demographic, and have continued to enjoy her work ever since then. Her latest series goes back in time in Tortall, the setting for her original series (about the knight Alanna) to tell the
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Read for the YA 2008 and Mythopoeic Reading Challenges. Inkheart is an absolutely charming story, definitely one of the better YA books I’ve recently read. Being an avid reader, I have on occasion wished that the story that I was reading could come alive, but this story is great cautionary tale of why that might
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This is a lovely little book with a charming coming of age story set in the world of Norse Mythology. Odd is a crippled boy who falls into the company of the gods Odin, Thor and Loki, and is able to help them regain Asgard from a frost giant who had overpowered and thrown the
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Read for the Once Upon a Time II Reading Challenge I decided I needed to read this book after catching the movie version again recently on Cartoon Network. I think I may have read it before long ago, but I’m not sure if that sense of familiarity is from a prior reading, or having seen
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Skellig is a lovely little story about a boy named Michael, who’s going through a pretty rough time in his life. His family has recently moved, and his newborn baby sister is very sick, and they’re not entirely sure she’ll live. His parents haven’t even given her a name yet. Because of the calamity, he
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Read for the Young Adult and Once Upon a Time II Reading Challenges. I’ve found a new fantasy series to follow. I’d almost bought The Naming and The Riddle (the second book in the series) last Christmas, based on the cover illustrations and short descriptions in the book. However, I was good, and once I
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