Read for the RIP VI and 2011 YA Reading Challenges. While this book isn’t a sure fit for the RIP Challenge categories (this picking things only out of my TBR stash is hard!), it is a great deconstruction of the take no prisoners dark lord tries to take over the world kind of stories, so […]
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Read for the RIP VI Reading Challenge. Young Samuel Johnson decided to show some initiative and trick or treat a full three days before Halloween. That’s why he happened to be at 666 Crowley Road when the Abernathys decided to raise a demon. Samuel figures out pretty early on that none of the adults are
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Read for the 2011 YA and RIP VI Reading Challenges. Sally Lockhart has recently lost her father, and is now living with an aunt she barely knows and having to find her own way in Victorian London. She had a rather unconventional childhood, her father always believed in teaching her to take care of herself
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. This book is a companion to Merlin’s Harp, which portrays the Fae as a primal people living alongside the human inhabitants of King Arthur’s Kingdom. In Arthurian legend, Sir Percival is raised far from court by his mother, because his father and older brothers have all died in
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Read fort the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. Gen landed in the King’s prison because of his bragging. After months chained in his cell, he’s released by the the Magus, the king’s scholar, who wants him to help him steal a treasure. Gen, the Magus, the Magus’ two apprentices and a guard leave Sounis and travel
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. The Morgan family lost their mother in an auto accident, and not long after, their father, David, decides to take the two younger children, Peter and Becky, to Wales with him, where he’s been given a visiting professor’s position at the university. Jen, the oldest, is to stay
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. Evvy had left her home in Chammur to become an apprentice Stone Mage at the Winding Circle school. For the most part, her life is good, but she ends up on a trip to the far away Battle Islands after she pushes too far in a fight with
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In this final book of the Claidi Journals, Claidi finds her way back to the people of her one true love, Argul, but he is no longer with them. She sets out to find him, and finds her way to the Raven Tower, which everyone thought had been destroyed. It’s ruled by Twilight Star, who
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. I am pretty late to the whole Hunger Games phenomenon, but I finally got my hands on the first book. I can totally understand how this is the next big thing since Twilight. This is a post-apocalyptic tale, where the US has morphed into a country called Panem,
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Read for the Once Upon a Time V Reading Challenge. Somewhere in England is a boarding school that is far more than it appears. The staff is large, but there are only five students, and life at this boarding school is all that they’ve known. Now teenagers, they’ve begun to see the school for what
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