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 2010 YA Reading Challenge. Findabhair and Gwen are sixteen year old cousins, planning a trip around Ireland when Gwen comes over from the US to visit for the summer. The two girls have always loved the stories of the Fair Folk and the Summer Realm that exists alongside our own. It’s their
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Another challenge I’ll be repeating this year is the Young Adult Reading Challenge. I’ll be doing the mini-YA reading challenge, which is to read 12 YA books through the year. The list doesn’t need to be determined up front. For the moment, I’m aiming to read the following, but the list may change: The Tale
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The Great White rained radiation from the skies, and much of the world was destroyed. What remained untouched were the lands far from the large cities. The people there were mostly farmers, and banded together to survive after the terrible holocaust. Over time, it became clear that the land and people had not been entirely
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I’m done with the 2009 YA Reading Challenge, slightly ahead of schedule. I read: In the group were one regular fiction, three historical fiction, one historical fiction/fantasy hybrid, one post-apocalyptic/sci fi book, one urban fantasy, and five fantasy books. If someone hosts this challenge again next year, I think I’m going to challenge myself to
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. Most of Donna Jo Napoli’s books draw from fairy tale or folklore backgrounds, but Daughter of Venice is a straight historical fiction story, something I tend not to run into as often in my young adult reading. Donata, with her twin sister Laura, is the second oldest daughter
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. In the Twelve Worlds, only an enchanter with nine lives is powerful enough to be the Chrestomanci – an enchanter charged with making sure magic isn’t misused among the different worlds. This book is an omnibus of two of the Chrestomanci books. In the first (Charmed Life), when
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. Sixteen-year-old Sam’s life is going pretty well. School’s not bad, he’s actually starting to think about what he might want to do with his life, and he’s dating Alicia, a really cool and pretty girl who he wouldn’t have thought he had a chance with. And then she
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. Arthur Penhaligon is a normal boy who was never meant to be a hero. In fact, he should have died, except his life was saved by the sudden arrival a key that’s shaped like the minute hand of a clock. Arthur discovers that this key belongs to Mister
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