James: Circle of Friends Book Three
By: L. Diane Wolfe
Author Site: http://www.thecircleoffriends.net/
Author Blog: http://circleoffriendsbooks.blogspot.com/
James is a young man who is lost within himself. Growing up with an abusive father, James doesn’t let too many people into his life. In order not to think about the past, he focuses on other things diligently: school, work. But, though [...]
April 17, 2007
Categories: Children, Fiction, Inspirational, Romance, Young Adult . . Author: thebookpedler . Comments: No Comments
The Rock of Realm
By Lea Schizas
Star Publish Books, 2005
http://leaschizaseditor.tripod.com
Life is exceedingly normal for fourteen year old Alex Stone. She has to clean up her dogs mess, get a ride to school from old Ms. Harris who shouldn’t be allowed on the road and babysit Ms. Harris’ grandchildren after school against her will. Life could [...]
April 15, 2007
Categories: Children, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult . . Author: thebookpedler . Comments: No Comments
I started this book the other night looking for something different to read; boy is it ever! It’s a stunningly beautiful work that his harrowing but gorgeous.
Fifteen year old Daisy goes to live with her cousins in England after her fathers new wife grows tired of her. Despondant, Daisy is sad at leaving New York, [...]
March 5, 2007
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The other night, I had the pleasure of reading an old favorite all over again: The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.
I had read it as a child and then once more years ago. But it’s always been one of those books that no bookshelf is complete without. So I keep replacing older [...]
March 2, 2007
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When we last left the Baudelaire Orphans, they were fleeing from Count Olaf and entering a car with a woman in the back seat who they had never seen before. That woman was Kit Snicket. Kit Snicket, one of the many on the right side of the schism, takes them to The Hotel Dénouement. There, [...]
February 28, 2007
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In the eleventh book in “A Series of Unfortunate Events”, we find the three young Baudelaire siblings in a grim bit of trouble, escaping from the nefarious Count Olaf by riding a toboggan down the Stricken Stream, hoping to find a sugar bowl before he does.
The Baudelaire siblings don’t know what is so important about [...]
February 28, 2007
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The end is near. Followers of “A Series of Unfortunate Events” know that the thirteenth, and last, book of the series, titled “The End”, is out on the thirteenth day of the tenth month on the fifth day of the week. A confusing phrase which here means: Friday, October 13th, 2006.
Lovers of the series have [...]
February 28, 2007
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What would you get if you combined the wit of Lemony Snikett’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events” with Harry Potter and tons of literary references? Well, hopefully something as astounding and enjoyable as N. E. Bode’s novel “The Anybodies.”
Switched at birth, Fern Drudger knows she has always been different than her two boring parents. Far [...]
February 28, 2007
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